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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. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Globalization
Economic system
Science
Rites of passage
2. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Technology
Religious rituals
Bureaucratization
Variable
3. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Secondary analysis
Bilateral descent
Egalitarian family
Polyandry
4. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Segregation
Ethnography
Equilibrium model
Manifest functions
5. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Stigma
Exploitation theory
Social role
6. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
World systems analysis
Looking-glass self
Class system
Normal accidents
7. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Gemeinschaft
Sample
Code of ethics
Labor unions
8. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Secondary analysis
Education
Cultural universals
Mores
9. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Apartheid
Politics
Normal accidents
Sample
10. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Absolute poverty
Cognitive theory of development
Alienation
Demography
11. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Ethnocentrism
Proletariat
Ethnic group
Religious beliefs
12. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Nuclear family
Informal social control
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Causal logic
13. 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.
Socialization
Anomie theory of deviance
Birthrate
Contact hypothesis
14. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Deviance
Exogamy
Open system
Control variable
15. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Ideal type
Theory
Proletariat
Human relations approach
16. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
Patrilineal descent
Status
Resource mobilization
17. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Triad
Egalitarian family
Ascribed status
Impression management
18. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Terrorism
Variable
Personality
Diffusion
19. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Obedience
Bourgeoisie
Postindustrial city
Religious beliefs
20. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Feminist perspective
Secularization
Castes
Incest taboo
21. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Multiple-nuclei theory
In-group
Social epidemiology
Modernization theory
22. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Gender roles
Racism
Agrarian society
Qualitative research
23. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Racism
Disengagement theory
Role conflict
Social inequality
24. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Ideal type
Hidden curriculum
Institutional discrimination
Dependent variable
25. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Dependency theory
Group
Telecommuters
Neocolonialism
26. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Anomie theory of deviance
Globalization
Evolutionary theory
27. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Gemeinschaft
Protestant ethic
Sociology
Racism
28. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Crime
Achieved status
Value neutrality
29. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Urban ecology
Sociobiology
Established sect
Primary group
30. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Negotiated order
Racism
In-group
Incidence
31. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Socialization
Hawthorne effect
Kinship
Differential association
32. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Charismatic authority
Bilingualism
Capitalism
Socialization
33. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Economic system
Macrosociology
Subculture
In-group
34. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Surveillance function
Ageism
Defended neighborhood
Interactionist perspective
35. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Folkways
Religious rituals
Exogamy
Opinion leader
36. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Expressiveness
Symbols
Secondary group
Formal organization
37. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Esteem
Variable
Fertility
Bilateral descent
38. According to
Validity
Religion
Bureaucracy
Quantitative research
39. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Content analysis
Incidence
Folkways
40. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Intragenerational mobility
Postmodern society
Xenocentrism
Social inequality
41. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Classical theory
Hidden curriculum
Content analysis
42. The incidence of death in a given population.
Research design
Secularization
Contact hypothesis
Mortality rate
43. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Research design
Activity theory
Folkways
Independent variable
44. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Hidden curriculum
Social change
Scientific method
Gerontology
45. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Downsizing
Mortality rate
Polygyny
Folkways
46. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Generalized others
Health
Total institutions
Preindustrial city
47. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Classical theory
Postindustrial society
Ageism
Independent variable
48. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Macrosociology
Dramaturgical approach
Manifest functions
49. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Relative deprivation
Stratification
Polygyny
Crime
50. The study of various aspects of human society.
Demography
Economic system
Monopoly
Social science