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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 formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






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






3. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






4. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






5. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






6. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






7. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






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






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






10. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






11. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






12. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






13. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






15. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






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






17. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






18. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






19. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






20. The study of various aspects of human society.






21. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






22. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






23. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






24. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






25. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






26. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






27. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






28. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






30. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






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






32. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






33. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






34. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






35. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






36. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






37. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






38. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






39. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






40. Control of a market by a single business firm.






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






42. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






43. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






44. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






45. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






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






47. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






48. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






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






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