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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






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






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






4. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






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






6. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






8. 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.






9. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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






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






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






13. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






14. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






15. 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.






16. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






23. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






25. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






26. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






28. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






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






32. General practices found in every culture.






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






34. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






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






36. The study of various aspects of human society.






37. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






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






39. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






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






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






42. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






44. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






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






46. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






47. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






48. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






49. According to






50. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.