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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 process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Gatekeeping
Assimilation
Qualitative research
Ecclesia
2. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Glass ceiling
Credentialism
Deviance
Elite model
3. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.
Religious rituals
Pluralism
Telecommuters
Secularization
4. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
Prevalence
Religious experience
Deindustrialization
5. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Colonialism
Politics
Social constructionist perspective
Charismatic authority
6. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Hawthorne effect
Fertility
Vested interests
Interactionist perspective
7. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Political system
Human ecology
Fertility
Causal logic
8. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Normal accidents
Scientific management approach
Patrilineal descent
Functionalist perspective
9. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Functionalist perspective
Dramaturgical approach
Political system
Modernization theory
10. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Social role
Microsociology
Symbols
11. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Deviance
Religious rituals
Environmental justice
Anomie
12. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Political system
Polyandry
Amalgamation
Labor unions
13. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Machismo
Secondary analysis
Impression management
Anticipatory socialization
14. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Questionnaire
Interview
Science
Laissez-faire
15. A two-member group.
Dyad
Modernization
White-collar crime
E-commerce
16. 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.
Personality
Culture shock
Social constructionist perspective
Impression management
17. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Experimental group
Hunting-and-gathering society
Morbidity rates
Terrorism
18. 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.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Underclass
Organized crime
Anticipatory socialization
19. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Resource mobilization
Charismatic authority
Self
Familism
20. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Intergenerational mobility
Culture lag
Megalopolis
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
21. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Income
Status group
Face-work
22. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Legal-rational authority
Crime
Patrilineal descent
Polygamy
23. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Society
Egalitarian family
Obedience
Affirmative action
24. 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.
Genocide
Creationism
Objective method
Absolute poverty
25. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Tracking
Telecommuters
Industrial city
Anomie
26. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Minority group
Dysfunction
Megalopolis
Wealth
27. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Environmental justice
Discovery
Hypothesis
Objective method
28. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Technology
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Urban ecology
McDonaldization
29. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Argot
Genocide
Achieved status
Monopoly
30. The incidence of death in a given population.
Survey
Intragenerational mobility
Peter principle
Mortality rate
31. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Resocialization
Concentric-zone theory
Cultural universals
32. 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
Contact hypothesis
Class system
Generalized others
33. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Labeling theory
Labor unions
Observation
Society
34. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Income
Material culture
Prejudice
Urbanism
35. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Qualitative research
Independent variable
Bourgeoisie
Industrial society
36. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Institutional discrimination
Qualitative research
Second shift
Questionnaire
37. 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.
Scientific management approach
Verstehen
Surveillance function
Education
38. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Monopoly
Latent functions
Contact hypothesis
39. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Quantitative research
Polygamy
Secularization
Scientific method
40. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Neocolonialism
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Patriarchy
Ethnocentrism
41. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Exogamy
Value neutrality
Elite model
Culture shock
42. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Political socialization
Conformity
Expressiveness
Achieved status
43. 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.
New urban sociology
Amalgamation
Monogamy
Victimization surveys
44. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Sacred
Class consciousness
Macrosociology
Natural science
45. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Credentialism
Denomination
Open system
Observation
46. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Traditional authority
Legal-rational authority
Formal social control
Narcotizing dysfunction
47. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Fertility
Dependency theory
Environmental justice
E-commerce
48. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Scientific method
Questionnaire
Sociological imagination
Narcotizing dysfunction
49. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Routine activities theory
Sociocultural evolution
Correspondence principle
Gesellschaft
50. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Adoption
Egalitarian family
Narcotizing dysfunction
Hidden curriculum