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






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






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






4. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






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






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






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






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






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






10. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






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






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






14. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






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






16. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






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






19. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






20. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






21. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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






23. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






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






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






26. Salaries and wages.






27. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






28. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






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






30. The state of being related to others.






31. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






32. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






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






34. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






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






37. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






38. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






39. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






40. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






41. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






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






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






44. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






45. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






46. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. 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.