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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






2. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






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






4. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






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






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






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






10. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






11. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






12. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






13. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






14. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






16. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






17. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






19. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






20. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






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






22. The scientific study of population.






23. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






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






25. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






26. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






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






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






29. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






30. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






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






32. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






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






34. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






35. 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.






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






37. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






38. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






40. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






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






42. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






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






44. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






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






46. A three-member group.






47. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






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






49. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






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