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CLEP Sociology

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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. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






4. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






5. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






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






7. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






8. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






9. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






11. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






12. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






13. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






15. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






16. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






17. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






18. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






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






20. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






21. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






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






23. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






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






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






26. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






27. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






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






29. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






30. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






31. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






32. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






33. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






34. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






35. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






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






37. 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.






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






39. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






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






41. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






42. 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.






43. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






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






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. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






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






48. 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.






49. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






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