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CLEP Sociology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






2. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






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






4. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






5. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






6. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






7. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






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






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






10. 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.






11. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






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






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






14. The study of various aspects of human society.






15. 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.






16. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






17. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






19. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






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






21. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






22. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






23. The scientific study of population.






24. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






25. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






26. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






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






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






29. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






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






31. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






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






34. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






35. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






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






37. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






38. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






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






40. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






41. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






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






43. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






44. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






45. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






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






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






48. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






49. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






50. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.