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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






2. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






3. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






4. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






5. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






6. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






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






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






9. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






10. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






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






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






13. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






14. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






15. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






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






17. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






18. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






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






20. Governmental social control.






21. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






22. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






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






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






25. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






26. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






29. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






31. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






33. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






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






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






36. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






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






38. 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.






39. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






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






42. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






48. 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.






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






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