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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






2. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






3. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






4. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






5. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






6. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






7. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






8. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






9. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






11. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






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






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






14. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






15. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






16. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






23. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






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






25. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






26. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






27. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






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






29. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






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






31. Control of a market by a single business firm.






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






33. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






34. 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.






35. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






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






44. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






45. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






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






47. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






48. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






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






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