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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






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






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






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






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






6. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






7. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






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






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






10. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






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






12. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






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






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






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






16. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






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






18. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






19. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






20. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






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






23. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






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






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






26. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






27. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






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






29. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






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






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






33. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






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






35. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






36. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






38. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






39. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






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. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






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






44. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






45. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






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






47. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






48. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






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






50. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.