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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






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






3. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






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






5. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






6. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






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






8. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






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






11. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






12. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






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






14. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






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






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






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






18. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






19. 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.






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






21. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






22. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






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






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






25. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






26. 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.






27. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






28. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






29. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






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






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






32. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






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






34. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






35. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






36. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






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






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






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






40. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






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






43. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






44. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






45. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






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






48. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






49. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






50. 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.