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CLEP Sociology
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1. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Quantitative research
Dramaturgical approach
Modernization theory
Cultural relativism
2. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Self
Patrilineal descent
Sick role
Social mobility
3. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Surveillance function
Disengagement theory
Experiment
Narcotizing dysfunction
4. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Validity
Professional criminal
Class system
Unilinear evolutionary theory
5. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Religious experience
Observation
Black power
Cultural universals
6. Salaries and wages.
Anti-Semitism
Income
Xenocentrism
Bureaucracy
7. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Social interaction
Extended family
Relative poverty
Face-work
8. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Religious experience
Black power
Exogamy
Questionnaire
9. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Activity theory
Informal norms
Expressiveness
10. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Demographic transition
Religious beliefs
Alienation
Polygyny
11. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Patriarchy
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Value neutrality
Incidence
12. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Horizontal mobility
Correspondence principle
Bourgeoisie
13. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Nonmaterial culture
Latent functions
Correlation
Random sample
14. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Protestant ethic
Sociobiology
Invention
Amalgamation
15. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Community
Informal norms
Small group
Routine activities theory
16. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Religious experience
Wealth
Cult
Functionalist perspective
17. A three-member group.
Obedience
Objective method
Dominant ideology
Triad
18. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
Natural science
Single-parent families
Prestige
19. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Conflict perspective
McDonaldization
Model or ideal minority
Variable
20. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Personality
Contact hypothesis
Victimless crimes
Research design
21. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Hawthorne effect
New social movements
Discovery
Discrimination
22. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Dependent variable
Infant mortality rate
Natural science
Power
23. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Education
Questionnaire
Matriarchy
Interview
24. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Underclass
Hawthorne effect
Value neutrality
Demography
25. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Cultural transmission
Wealth
Role taking
Sacred
26. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Instrumentality
Sanctions
Sect
Obedience
27. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Fertility
Credentialism
Ideal type
Informal economy
28. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Denomination
Looking-glass self
Innovation
Subculture
29. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Affirmative action
Conflict perspective
Infant mortality rate
Endogamy
30. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
New social movements
Cohabitation
Language
Force
31. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Denomination
Folkways
Pluralist model
White-collar crime
32. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Victimization surveys
Liberation theology
Role exit
Social mobility
33. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Traditional authority
Colonialism
Symbols
Elite model
34. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Evolutionary theory
Professional criminal
Informal social control
Surveillance function
35. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Anti-Semitism
Ethnic group
Counterculture
36. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Argot
Opinion leader
Out-group
37. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Peter principle
Human ecology
Role conflict
38. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
New social movements
Sexism
Genocide
Expressiveness
39. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Incest taboo
Horizontal mobility
Content analysis
Experiment
40. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Genocide
Vital statistics
Hidden curriculum
Operational definition
41. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
New social movements
Morbidity rates
Impression management
42. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Modernization
Environmental justice
Black power
43. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Culture lag
Secondary analysis
Coalition
Victimless crimes
44. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Class system
Luddites
Xenocentrism
Technology
45. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Intragenerational mobility
Power
Protestant ethic
Postindustrial city
46. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Culture lag
Proletariat
Sick role
Status group
47. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Preindustrial city
Narcotizing dysfunction
Verstehen
Charismatic authority
48. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Pluralist model
Face-work
Cognitive theory of development
Formal social control
49. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Control variable
Causal logic
Political system
Industrial society
50. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Terrorism
Glass ceiling
Dominant ideology
Human ecology