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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






2. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






3. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






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






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






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






7. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






8. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






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






10. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






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






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






13. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






14. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






15. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






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






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






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






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






27. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






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






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






30. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






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






33. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






34. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






35. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






36. The study of various aspects of human society.






37. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






38. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






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






41. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






42. 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.






43. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






44. 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.






45. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






46. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






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






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






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






50. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.