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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






2. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






3. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






4. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






5. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






6. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






7. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






8. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






9. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






10. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






11. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






12. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






13. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






14. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






15. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






16. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






17. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






18. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






19. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






20. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






21. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






22. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






23. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






24. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






25. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






26. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






27. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






28. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






29. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






30. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






31. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






32. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






33. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






34. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






35. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






36. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






37. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






38. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






39. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






40. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






41. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






42. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






43. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






44. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






45. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






46. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






47. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






48. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






49. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






50. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.