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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 married couple and their unmarried children living together.






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






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






5. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






6. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






7. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






8. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






9. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






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






11. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






12. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






13. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






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






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






17. 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.






18. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






19. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






20. General practices found in every culture.






21. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






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






23. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






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






25. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






27. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






28. The scientific study of population.






29. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






30. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






31. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






33. A two-member group.






34. 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.






35. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






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






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






38. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






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






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






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






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






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






49. The state of being related to others.






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