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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






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






3. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






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






5. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






6. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






7. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






8. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






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






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






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






13. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






14. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






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






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






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






19. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






20. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






21. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






22. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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






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






25. 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.






26. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






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






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






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31. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






33. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






34. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






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






36. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






37. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






38. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






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






40. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






42. 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.






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






44. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






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






46. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






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






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






50. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.