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






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






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






4. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






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






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






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






8. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






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






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






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






12. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






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






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






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






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






17. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






18. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






19. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






20. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






21. 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.






22. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






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






24. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






25. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






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






27. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






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






29. General practices found in every culture.






30. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






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






32. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






33. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






34. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






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






36. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






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






38. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






39. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






40. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






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






42. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






43. 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.






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






45. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






46. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






47. The incidence of death in a given population.






48. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






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






50. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.