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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






2. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






3. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






4. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






5. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






6. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






7. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






8. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






9. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






10. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






11. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






12. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






13. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






14. A two-member group.






15. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






16. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






17. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






18. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






19. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






20. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






21. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






22. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






23. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






24. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






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






26. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






27. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






28. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






29. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






30. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






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






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






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






34. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






35. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






36. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






37. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






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






39. The study of various aspects of human society.






40. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






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






42. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






43. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






44. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






45. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






46. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






47. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






48. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






49. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






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