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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






2. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






3. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






4. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






5. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






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






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






10. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






11. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






12. 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.






13. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






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






16. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






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






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






19. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






20. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






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






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






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






25. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






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






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






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






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






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






31. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






32. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






33. 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.






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






35. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






36. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






37. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






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






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






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






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






42. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






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






44. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






45. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






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






47. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






48. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






49. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






50. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.