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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






3. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






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






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






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






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






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






9. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






10. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






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






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






13. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






14. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






15. 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.






16. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






17. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






19. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






20. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






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






22. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






23. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






24. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






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






26. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






27. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






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






30. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






31. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






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






33. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






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






35. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






36. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






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






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






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






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






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






42. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






44. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






46. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






47. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






48. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






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






50. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.