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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. The state of being related to others.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






18. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






19. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






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






21. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






22. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






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






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






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






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






27. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






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






29. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






30. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






31. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






32. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






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






34. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






35. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






37. General practices found in every culture.






38. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






40. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






41. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






42. 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.






43. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






44. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






45. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






47. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






48. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






49. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






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