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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. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






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






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






4. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






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






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






7. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






13. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






14. 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.






15. Governmental social control.






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






17. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






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






19. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






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






21. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






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. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






24. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






25. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






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






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






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






29. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






30. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






32. The incidence of death in a given population.






33. 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.






34. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






35. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






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






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






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






39. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






40. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






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






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






43. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






44. Salaries and wages.






45. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






46. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






47. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






48. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






49. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






50. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.