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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. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Innovation
Socialism
Resocialization
Power
2. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Conformity
Operational definition
Creationism
Horizontal mobility
3. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Cognitive theory of development
Dyad
Social epidemiology
Polygamy
4. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Sect
Informal social control
Manifest functions
Exploitation theory
5. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Death rate
Social science
Looking-glass self
Natural science
6. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Face-work
Incest taboo
Labor unions
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.
Correlation
Growth rate
Birthrate
Significant others
8. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Culture lag
Secularization
Sociocultural evolution
Status group
9. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Ascribed status
Teacher-expectancy effect
Experiment
Quantitative research
10. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Nonmaterial culture
Labeling theory
Normal accidents
Profane
11. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Megalopolis
Income
Gerontology
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
12. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Social institutions
Laissez-faire
Face-work
Trained incapacity
13. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Social interaction
Sociology
Culture lag
Rites of passage
14. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Income
Coalition
Urban ecology
Scientific method
15. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Culture shock
Telecommuters
Preindustrial city
Sociology
16. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Bilateral descent
Invention
Narcotizing dysfunction
17. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Technology
Code of ethics
Multiple-nuclei theory
Interview
18. 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.
Nisei
Ethnography
Anomie theory of deviance
World systems analysis
19. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Postindustrial society
Crime
Globalization
Opinion leader
20. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Goal displacement
Institutional discrimination
Independent variable
Role conflict
21. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Role taking
Norms
Variable
Social movements
22. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Total institutions
Qualitative research
Matrilineal descent
Dysfunction
23. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Castes
Social constructionist perspective
Social inequality
Social network
24. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Sociobiology
Ethnography
Bilingualism
Research design
25. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Culture shock
Narcotizing dysfunction
False consciousness
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
26. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Sample
Argot
Resource mobilization
27. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Total institutions
Proletariat
Prejudice
Demographic transition
28. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Coalition
Microsociology
Stereotypes
Scientific method
29. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Genocide
Preindustrial city
Fertility
Out-group
30. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Religious beliefs
Differential association
Class
Routine activities theory
31. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Resocialization
Feminist perspective
Minority group
Experimental group
32. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Single-parent families
Megalopolis
Intergenerational mobility
Evolutionary theory
33. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Agrarian society
Argot
Victimization surveys
Alienation
34. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Elite model
Alienation
Mass media
Prestige
35. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Egalitarian family
Genocide
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Society
36. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Looking-glass self
Egalitarian family
Postindustrial society
Vital statistics
37. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Closed system
Gender roles
Correlation
Random sample
38. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Correlation
Nonverbal communication
Scientific management approach
Urbanism
39. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Social control
Closed system
Research design
Glass ceiling
40. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Defended neighborhood
Legal-rational authority
Secondary group
Code of ethics
41. Salaries and wages.
Modernization
Anticipatory socialization
Income
Sociocultural evolution
42. 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.
Experiment
Group
Social epidemiology
Power elite
43. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Charismatic authority
Established sect
Invention
Code of ethics
44. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Social structure
Theory
Census
Proletariat
45. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Discrimination
Class system
Small group
Negotiated order
46. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Dramaturgical approach
Cultural universals
Social institutions
Racism
47. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Megalopolis
Stigma
Segregation
Morbidity rates
48. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Mores
Absolute poverty
Subculture
Role strain
49. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Experimental group
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Power
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
50. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Dysfunction
Contact hypothesis
Incidence