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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 attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






2. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






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






4. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






6. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






7. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






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






11. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






13. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






14. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






15. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






16. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






17. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






18. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






23. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






24. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






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






27. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






33. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






34. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






35. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






36. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






37. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






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






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






40. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






48. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






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






50. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.