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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






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






3. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






4. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






5. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






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






7. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






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






9. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






10. A two-member group.






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






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






13. 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.






14. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






15. 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.






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






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






18. The state of being related to others.






19. The scientific study of population.






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






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






22. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






24. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






25. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






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






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






29. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






31. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






32. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






33. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






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






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






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






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






38. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






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






41. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






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






43. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






44. 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.






45. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






46. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






47. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






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






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






50. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.