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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. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Economic system
Downsizing
Hypothesis
Informal norms
2. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Institutional discrimination
Random sample
Gemeinschaft
Organized crime
3. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Absolute poverty
Expressiveness
Dependent variable
Politics
4. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Adoption
Slavery
Conflict perspective
Social institutions
5. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Religious experience
Causal logic
Issei
Negotiated order
6. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Group
Model or ideal minority
Achieved status
Racism
7. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Issei
Role exit
Class system
Vital statistics
8. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Iron law of oligarchy
Control variable
Endogamy
Scientific method
9. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Closed system
Nuclear family
Luddites
Life expectancy
10. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Random sample
Sociocultural evolution
Alienation
Theory
11. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Social change
Urbanism
Sample
Social structure
12. 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.
Creationism
Correspondence principle
Black power
Norms
13. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Anomie
Equilibrium model
Reference group
Stratification
14. 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.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Anomie theory of deviance
Crime
Polygamy
15. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Informal norms
Argot
Subculture
Gesellschaft
16. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Stigma
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Degradation ceremony
Vested interests
17. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Cultural universals
Egalitarian family
Sociology
Social interaction
18. 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.
Telecommuters
Scientific management approach
Scientific method
Bureaucracy
19. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Charismatic authority
Established sect
Face-work
20. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Prevalence
Social interaction
Mass media
Institutional discrimination
21. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Anticipatory socialization
Morbidity rates
Birthrate
Sick role
22. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Conformity
McDonaldization
Nonverbal communication
Stigma
23. 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.
Concentric-zone theory
Bourgeoisie
World systems analysis
Social structure
24. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Power elite
Status group
Social movements
Zero population growth (ZPG)
25. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Crime
Role strain
Labor unions
26. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Sexual harassment
Routine activities theory
Black power
Castes
27. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Natural science
Tracking
Microsociology
Deviance
28. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Castes
Infant mortality rate
Incidence
Correspondence principle
29. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Life chances
Discovery
Racism
Open system
30. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Culture shock
Sociobiology
Creationism
Laissez-faire
31. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Affirmative action
Cultural transmission
Sexual harassment
Stratification
32. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Law
Labor unions
Looking-glass self
33. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Exogamy
Sexism
Total institutions
Patriarchy
34. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Class system
Survey
Vital statistics
Science
35. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Horticultural societies
Economic system
Wealth
Informal norms
36. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Role strain
Matriarchy
Fertility
Slavery
37. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Liberation theology
Cultural universals
New social movements
In-group
38. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Polygyny
Correlation
Negotiated order
Informal social control
39. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Formal norms
E-commerce
Dependency theory
Cohabitation
40. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Bourgeoisie
Political system
Serial monogamy
Reliability
41. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Cult
Social role
Social epidemiology
Conflict perspective
42. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Infant mortality rate
Argot
Conformity
Trained incapacity
43. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Coalition
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Iron law of oligarchy
Hidden curriculum
44. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Morbidity rates
Serial monogamy
Looking-glass self
Political system
45. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Opinion leader
Authority
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Dominant ideology
46. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Charismatic authority
Bilingualism
Downsizing
47. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Prevalence
Slavery
Cultural universals
Differential association
48. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Creationism
Social science
Postindustrial society
Wealth
49. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Norms
Dyad
Dysfunction
Negotiated order
50. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Peter principle
Social mobility
Formal norms
Law