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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A three-member group.
Postindustrial city
Triad
Multiple-nuclei theory
Mortality rate
2. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Self
Morbidity rates
Dependent variable
Closed system
3. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Normal accidents
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Control variable
Code of ethics
4. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Serial monogamy
Mass media
Prejudice
Functionalist perspective
5. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Variable
Victimless crimes
Group
6. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Trained incapacity
Personality
Cultural relativism
7. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
Charismatic authority
Ethnocentrism
8. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Ethnography
Apartheid
Ageism
Content analysis
9. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Significant others
Control theory
Egalitarian family
Deindustrialization
10. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Patrilineal descent
Curanderismo
Ageism
Triad
11. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Castes
Self
Deindustrialization
Informal economy
12. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Morbidity rates
Birthrate
Cohabitation
Nonverbal communication
13. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Demography
Face-work
Ascribed status
Demographic transition
14. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Material culture
Formal social control
Incidence
Elite model
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.
Anomie theory of deviance
Discovery
Routine activities theory
Underclass
16. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Closed system
Mores
Patriarchy
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
17. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Authority
Fertility
Discrimination
Dependent variable
18. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Human relations approach
Experimental group
Urban ecology
Cult
19. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Multinational corporations
Intergenerational mobility
Variable
Surveillance function
20. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Gemeinschaft
Life expectancy
Prejudice
Primary group
21. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Dependency theory
Law
Polygamy
Xenocentrism
22. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Deindustrialization
New social movements
Xenocentrism
23. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Environmental justice
Socialization
Nonmaterial culture
Equilibrium model
24. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Operational definition
Social epidemiology
Self
Stigma
25. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Industrial society
Equilibrium model
Anticipatory socialization
Contact hypothesis
26. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Deviance
Secondary analysis
Influence
Social movements
27. General practices found in every culture.
Cultural universals
Folkways
Stereotypes
Society
28. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Bureaucratization
Incidence
Resocialization
Anti-Semitism
29. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Gesellschaft
Political socialization
Slavery
Macrosociology
30. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Exploitation theory
Demography
Generalized others
Gerontology
31. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Iron law of oligarchy
Cultural transmission
Code of ethics
Sociology
32. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Tracking
Conflict perspective
Routine activities theory
Sick role
33. The study of various aspects of human society.
Denomination
Observation
Social science
Iron law of oligarchy
34. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Income
Monogamy
Sociocultural evolution
Matriarchy
35. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Power elite
Polygamy
Correlation
Colonialism
36. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Homophobia
Labeling theory
Status group
Nonmaterial culture
37. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Denomination
Master status
Hidden curriculum
Human ecology
38. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Discrimination
Health
Amalgamation
Obedience
39. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Role exit
Sacred
Racial group
McDonaldization
40. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
McDonaldization
Closed system
Control theory
Manifest functions
41. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Demography
Fertility
Ageism
Luddites
42. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Wealth
Horticultural societies
Resource mobilization
Argot
43. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Microsociology
Survey
Intergenerational mobility
Health
44. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Gender roles
Invention
Stratification
Discrimination
45. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Observation
Sect
Coalition
Denomination
46. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Power elite
Nonmaterial culture
Vital statistics
Gender roles
47. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Values
Natural science
Exploitation theory
Ageism
48. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Modernization theory
Multinational corporations
Ethnography
Scientific method
49. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Cognitive theory of development
Bureaucracy
Hunting-and-gathering society
Liberation theology
50. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Role exit
Absolute poverty
Human ecology
Discrimination