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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 face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






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






3. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






4. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






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






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






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






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






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






10. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






11. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






12. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






13. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






14. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






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






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






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






18. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






19. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






20. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






21. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






22. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






23. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






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






25. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






26. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






28. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






30. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






31. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






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






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






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






35. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






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






38. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






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






40. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






42. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






43. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






44. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






45. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






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






47. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






48. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






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






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