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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






2. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






3. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






5. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






6. 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.






7. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






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






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






10. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






11. The scientific study of population.






12. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






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






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






15. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






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






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






18. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






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






20. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






22. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






23. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






24. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






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






26. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






28. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






29. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






30. 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.






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






32. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






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






34. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






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






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






38. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






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






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






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






42. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






43. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






44. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






45. 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.






46. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






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






48. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






49. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






50. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.