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CLEP Sociology
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1. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Dyad
Reliability
Ideal type
Infant mortality rate
2. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Dependency theory
Human ecology
Sociobiology
Political system
3. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Protestant ethic
Discrimination
Single-parent families
Law
4. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Polygyny
Rites of passage
Colonialism
Profane
5. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Demographic transition
Religious rituals
Ideal type
Qualitative research
6. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Politics
Microsociology
Narcotizing dysfunction
Gesellschaft
7. A three-member group.
Power
Subculture
Minority group
Triad
8. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Ethnocentrism
Power
Out-group
9. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Denomination
Modernization
Political socialization
Resource mobilization
10. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Normal accidents
Anomie
Control theory
Curanderismo
11. 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.
Research design
Birthrate
Status
Agrarian society
12. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Microsociology
Wealth
Socialism
13. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Institutional discrimination
Income
Natural science
Multinational corporations
14. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Achieved status
Census
Societal-reaction approach
Power elite
15. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Negotiation
Kinship
Personality
Proletariat
16. 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
Role strain
Social structure
Macrosociology
17. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Terrorism
Labor unions
Verstehen
Sect
18. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Cognitive theory of development
Terrorism
Innovation
Dominant ideology
19. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Sample
Pluralism
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Gatekeeping
20. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Prevalence
Questionnaire
Political system
Activity theory
21. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Social science
Alienation
Fertility
22. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Voluntary associations
Observation
Social change
Social science
23. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Segregation
Manifest functions
Resource mobilization
McDonaldization
24. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Status
Machismo
Cognitive theory of development
Morbidity rates
25. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Role strain
Equilibrium model
Symbols
Intergenerational mobility
26. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Personality
Social control
Mores
Slavery
27. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Bureaucracy
Small group
Informal norms
Microsociology
28. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Horticultural societies
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Sociology
Sick role
29. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Opinion leader
Multiple-nuclei theory
Cultural transmission
Bourgeoisie
30. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Sexual harassment
Apartheid
Gesellschaft
Education
31. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Verstehen
Content analysis
Diffusion
Secondary group
32. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Monopoly
Discrimination
Stigma
Education
33. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Preindustrial city
Postindustrial city
Assimilation
Modernization theory
34. Salaries and wages.
Hypothesis
Obedience
Income
Cult
35. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Industrial society
Sexism
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Scientific management approach
36. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Group
Downsizing
Impression management
Material culture
37. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Globalization
Income
Social control
38. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Feminist perspective
Nonverbal communication
Hunting-and-gathering society
Affirmative action
39. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Birthrate
Experiment
Social change
Norms
40. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Ethnography
Absolute poverty
Code of ethics
Routine activities theory
41. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Value neutrality
Ageism
Verstehen
Incidence
42. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Proletariat
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Globalization
Operational definition
43. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Endogamy
Material culture
Defended neighborhood
Causal logic
44. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Family
Dramaturgical approach
Socialism
Hawthorne effect
45. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Fertility
Resocialization
Labeling theory
Status group
46. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Industrial society
Role conflict
Classical theory
Crime
47. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Degradation ceremony
Urban ecology
Cult
Black power
48. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Reliability
Esteem
Reference group
Sick role
49. 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.
Domestic partnership
Amalgamation
Qualitative research
Neocolonialism
50. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Religion
Technology
In-group