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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






9. 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.






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






11. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






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






13. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






14. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






15. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






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






17. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






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






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






20. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






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






22. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






23. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






24. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






25. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






26. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






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






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






29. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






30. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






37. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






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






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






40. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






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






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






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






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






46. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






47. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






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






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