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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






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






3. 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.






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






5. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






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






7. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






8. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






9. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






11. A two-member group.






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






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






14. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






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






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






18. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






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






20. 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.






21. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






22. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






23. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






24. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






25. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






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






27. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






28. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






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






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






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






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






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






34. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






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






36. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






37. The incidence of death in a given population.






38. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






39. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






41. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






42. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






43. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






44. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






45. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






46. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






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






48. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






49. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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