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CLEP Sociology
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1. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Impression management
Conflict perspective
Secondary group
Downsizing
2. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Education
Negotiation
Apartheid
3. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Professional criminal
Interview
New urban sociology
4. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Status
Suburb
Gender roles
Quantitative research
5. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Liberation theology
Ethnography
Invention
Bourgeoisie
6. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Innovation
Colonialism
Apartheid
Death rate
7. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Denomination
Prevalence
Group
Scientific method
8. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Social structure
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Ecclesia
Open system
9. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Industrial city
Causal logic
Sociology
Credentialism
10. 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
Census
Religion
Role strain
11. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Ageism
Random sample
Social control
Role strain
12. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Socialism
Routine activities theory
Liberation theology
Open system
13. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Stratification
Telecommuters
Political system
Dependent variable
14. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Random sample
Social change
Sanctions
Formal social control
15. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.
Society
Stratification
Verstehen
Ideal type
16. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
McDonaldization
Social control
Instrumentality
17. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Cult
Single-parent families
Serial monogamy
Scientific management approach
18. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Informal social control
Stigma
Economic system
Role conflict
19. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Discovery
Out-group
Crime
Objective method
20. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Authority
Counterculture
Activity theory
Terrorism
21. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Culture shock
Segregation
Gender roles
Manifest functions
22. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Postmodern society
Social epidemiology
Amalgamation
Homophobia
23. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Discovery
Social control
Familism
Latent functions
24. Governmental social control.
Monogamy
Cultural universals
Law
Prestige
25. 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.
Conformity
Adoption
Nonmaterial culture
New urban sociology
26. 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.
Health
Creationism
Looking-glass self
Vested interests
27. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Nisei
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Postindustrial society
Esteem
28. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Horizontal mobility
Significant others
Religious rituals
Sacred
29. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Surveillance function
Language
Exogamy
Zero population growth (ZPG)
30. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Class
Laissez-faire
Kinship
31. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Personality
In-group
Dyad
Counterculture
32. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Subculture
Relative deprivation
Suburb
Denomination
33. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Second shift
Resocialization
Social structure
Folkways
34. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Value neutrality
Invention
Incest taboo
Impression management
35. 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.
Power
Instrumentality
Vested interests
Economic system
36. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Culture lag
Exogamy
Stereotypes
Power
37. According to
Concentric-zone theory
Horizontal mobility
Religion
Counterculture
38. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Single-parent families
Racism
Quantitative research
Goal displacement
39. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Absolute poverty
Achieved status
Self
Activity theory
40. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Vital statistics
Quantitative research
E-commerce
Bureaucracy
41. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Egalitarian family
Obedience
In-group
Expressiveness
42. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Ethnic group
Negotiation
Exploitation theory
Gemeinschaft
43. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Monopoly
Causal logic
Gemeinschaft
Multinational corporations
44. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Horticultural societies
Family
Role exit
45. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Macrosociology
Operational definition
Gatekeeping
46. A three-member group.
Instrumentality
Triad
Face-work
Charismatic authority
47. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Status group
Nisei
Culture
Underclass
48. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Deindustrialization
Relative poverty
Sick role
Iron law of oligarchy
49. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Formal social control
Vertical mobility
Slavery
Birthrate
50. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Technology
Cultural relativism
Tracking
Status