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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 degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Culture shock
Nisei
Institutional discrimination
Validity
2. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Hawthorne effect
Castes
Conflict perspective
Fertility
3. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Growth rate
Environmental justice
Telecommuters
Anomie
4. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Exploitation theory
Postindustrial society
Stratification
Nisei
5. General practices found in every culture.
Cultural universals
Egalitarian family
Theory
Sociological imagination
6. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Classical theory
Gatekeeping
Dysfunction
E-commerce
7. 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.
Bilateral descent
Ecclesia
Secondary analysis
Modernization
8. 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.
Macrosociology
Globalization
Microsociology
Vested interests
9. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Racial group
Cultural universals
Crime
Degradation ceremony
10. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Variable
Vital statistics
Research design
Patrilineal descent
11. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Segregation
Social network
Cult
Ascribed status
12. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Negotiation
Modernization
Liberation theology
Polygyny
13. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Downsizing
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Deindustrialization
Second shift
14. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Nonverbal communication
Concentric-zone theory
Exogamy
Labor unions
15. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Gerontology
Growth rate
Small group
Agrarian society
16. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Urbanism
Sick role
Ageism
Pluralist model
17. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Verstehen
Charismatic authority
Death rate
White-collar crime
18. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Achieved status
Class consciousness
E-commerce
Master status
19. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Class system
Serial monogamy
Law
Institutional discrimination
20. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Exploitation theory
Growth rate
Prevalence
Tracking
21. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Ecclesia
In-group
Experimental group
Feminist perspective
22. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Discrimination
Cultural relativism
Theory
Labeling theory
23. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.
Esteem
Domestic partnership
Instrumentality
Economic system
24. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Folkways
New urban sociology
Personality
Socialization
25. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Goal displacement
Terrorism
Prejudice
Bureaucracy
26. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Ageism
Dyad
Creationism
Amalgamation
27. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Cohabitation
Verstehen
Horticultural societies
28. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Random sample
Reliability
Language
Closed system
29. 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.
Social inequality
Religious beliefs
Sect
Homophobia
30. The incidence of death in a given population.
Human ecology
Sexual harassment
Social structure
Mortality rate
31. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Cult
Control group
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Social change
32. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Operational definition
Gemeinschaft
Cognitive theory of development
Multinational corporations
33. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Bilingualism
Ethnic group
Differential association
Sacred
34. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Formal norms
Symbols
Dependent variable
Correspondence principle
35. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Religious rituals
Elite model
Master status
Research design
36. 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.
Resource mobilization
Telecommuters
Culture shock
Birthrate
37. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Face-work
Class system
Societal-reaction approach
Force
38. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Prejudice
Familism
Random sample
Latent functions
39. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Vested interests
Theory
Exploitation theory
Cohabitation
40. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Looking-glass self
Significant others
White-collar crime
Social movements
41. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Hawthorne effect
Informal economy
Operational definition
New urban sociology
42. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Exogamy
Objective method
Human ecology
Single-parent families
43. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Negotiation
Amalgamation
Gender roles
Underclass
44. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Black power
Discovery
Matrilineal descent
Expressiveness
45. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Differential association
Social role
Macrosociology
Modernization theory
46. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Health
Ideal type
Genocide
Postindustrial society
47. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Formal organization
Horizontal mobility
Defended neighborhood
Trained incapacity
48. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Personality
Crime
Intergenerational mobility
49. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Scientific management approach
Monopoly
Code of ethics
Proletariat
50. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Social science
Secondary group
Social epidemiology
Polygamy