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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






2. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






3. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






4. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






6. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






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






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






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






10. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






11. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






12. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






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






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






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






16. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






17. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






19. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






20. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






21. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






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






23. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






24. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






25. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






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






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






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






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






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






31. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






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






33. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






34. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






35. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






36. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






38. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






39. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






40. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






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






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






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






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






45. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






46. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






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






48. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






49. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






50. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.