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CLEP Sociology
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1. 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.
Fertility
Personality
Norms
Total institutions
2. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Culture lag
Curanderismo
Master status
Gatekeeping
3. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Small group
Social change
Institutional discrimination
McDonaldization
4. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Culture
Endogamy
Sexism
Causal logic
5. 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
Mores
Code of ethics
Face-work
6. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Social science
Looking-glass self
Racism
Sociology
7. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
McDonaldization
Horticultural societies
Scientific method
Professional criminal
8. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Issei
Monogamy
Postindustrial society
Symbols
9. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Theory
Organized crime
Ascribed status
Capitalism
10. 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.
Issei
Agrarian society
Looking-glass self
Vested interests
11. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Patriarchy
Theory
Industrial city
Gender roles
12. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Symbols
Relative deprivation
Industrial society
Influence
13. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Routine activities theory
Personality
Exogamy
Globalization
14. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Voluntary associations
Achieved status
Charismatic authority
Luddites
15. 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.
Dramaturgical approach
Social constructionist perspective
Organized crime
Health
16. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Intragenerational mobility
Gesellschaft
Bureaucratization
Multilinear evolutionary theory
17. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
New urban sociology
Small group
Informal social control
Bilateral descent
18. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Equilibrium model
Social control
Postindustrial society
Conformity
19. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Peter principle
Culture
Victimless crimes
Quantitative research
20. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Nonverbal communication
Values
Adoption
Status group
21. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Ethnic group
Monogamy
Language
Relative poverty
22. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Exploitation theory
Questionnaire
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Survey
23. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Globalization
Folkways
Birthrate
Suburb
24. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Achieved status
Random sample
Variable
Income
25. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Segregation
Social inequality
Postmodern society
Status
26. 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
Dyad
Crime
Role strain
27. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Alienation
Ethnography
Interview
Social science
28. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Goal displacement
Force
Economic system
Closed system
29. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Resource mobilization
Racial group
Secondary group
Castes
30. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Closed system
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Racial group
Death rate
31. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Credentialism
Familism
Adoption
32. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Independent variable
Iron law of oligarchy
Infant mortality rate
Postindustrial society
33. Another name for labeling theory.
Issei
Societal-reaction approach
Status
Authority
34. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Social network
Mass media
Vertical mobility
Religion
35. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Material culture
Assimilation
Functionalist perspective
Discrimination
36. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Secondary group
Incest taboo
Anomie theory of deviance
37. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Life expectancy
Ascribed status
Dependency theory
Suburb
38. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Death rate
Exploitation theory
Master status
Relative deprivation
39. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Cultural transmission
Credentialism
Intergenerational mobility
Wealth
40. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Hawthorne effect
Scientific management approach
Equilibrium model
41. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Incest taboo
Labor unions
Population pyramid
Norms
42. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Segregation
Incidence
Hypothesis
Culture lag
43. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Ecclesia
Human ecology
Socialism
Quantitative research
44. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Defended neighborhood
Liberation theology
Bureaucracy
Ageism
45. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Capitalism
Second shift
Patriarchy
46. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Polyandry
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Technology
Family
47. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Objective method
Polygamy
Politics
Role conflict
48. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Deviance
Assimilation
In-group
Incidence
49. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Conformity
Surveillance function
Dramaturgical approach
Closed system
50. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Minority group
Dramaturgical approach
Objective method
Environmental justice