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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






2. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






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






4. 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.






5. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






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






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






8. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






9. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






10. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






11. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






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






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






14. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






15. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






16. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






17. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






18. Salaries and wages.






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






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






21. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






22. 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.






23. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






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






26. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






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






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






30. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






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






32. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






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






34. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






35. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






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






37. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






38. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






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






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






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






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






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






44. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






45. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






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






47. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






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






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






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