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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






2. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






3. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






4. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






5. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






6. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






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






8. 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.






9. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






11. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. A three-member group.






25. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






26. Control of a market by a single business firm.






27. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






28. General practices found in every culture.






29. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






30. 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.






31. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






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






33. 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.






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






35. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






36. Another name for labeling theory.






37. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






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






40. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






42. Salaries and wages.






43. The state of being related to others.






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






45. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






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






48. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






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






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