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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. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Culture
Assimilation
Elite model
2. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Amalgamation
Dependency theory
Scientific management approach
Informal economy
3. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Colonialism
Interview
Causal logic
Correlation
4. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Societal-reaction approach
Death rate
Dysfunction
Social role
5. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Castes
Elite model
Bilateral descent
Amalgamation
6. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Multiple-nuclei theory
Gerontology
Social inequality
7. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Correspondence principle
Health
Hunting-and-gathering society
Resource mobilization
8. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential association
Interactionist perspective
Achieved status
Homophobia
9. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Social institutions
Community
Formal organization
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
10. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Quantitative research
Evolutionary theory
Suburb
Egalitarian family
11. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Sociology
Equilibrium model
Total institutions
Anti-Semitism
12. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Human relations approach
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Scientific management approach
Wealth
13. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Endogamy
Correspondence principle
Subculture
Established sect
14. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Secondary analysis
Iron law of oligarchy
Cohabitation
Protestant ethic
15. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Economic system
Social inequality
Model or ideal minority
Cultural relativism
16. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Informal economy
Anomie
Sect
Sacred
17. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Significant others
Dependent variable
Validity
18. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Natural science
Science
Surveillance function
Control group
19. A three-member group.
Secondary group
Latent functions
Triad
Informal economy
20. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Relative poverty
Power
Labeling theory
Secularization
21. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Megalopolis
Preindustrial city
Causal logic
Class system
22. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Legal-rational authority
Protestant ethic
Affirmative action
Routine activities theory
23. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Birthrate
Secondary analysis
Coalition
Multiple-nuclei theory
24. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Vital statistics
Domestic partnership
Community
Ethnic group
25. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Dependency theory
Crime
Differential association
Racism
26. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Nisei
Reliability
Dominant ideology
Informal norms
27. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Social institutions
Verstehen
Anomie
Resource mobilization
28. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Politics
Negotiation
Hawthorne effect
Operational definition
29. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Liberation theology
Social institutions
Established sect
Postindustrial city
30. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Second shift
Social role
Liberation theology
Zero population growth (ZPG)
31. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Goal displacement
Horticultural societies
Evolutionary theory
Health
32. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Nisei
Preindustrial city
Informal norms
Community
33. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Serial monogamy
Informal economy
Exploitation theory
Labor unions
34. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Traditional authority
Underclass
Authority
Power elite
35. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Economic system
Social mobility
False consciousness
Luddites
36. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Control group
Disengagement theory
Politics
Evolutionary theory
37. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Elite model
Telecommuters
Dependency theory
Counterculture
38. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Urban ecology
Morbidity rates
Colonialism
39. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Feminist perspective
Survey
Sick role
Achieved status
40. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Agrarian society
Bilingualism
Fertility
Sect
41. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Content analysis
Community
Control theory
Total institutions
42. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Formal organization
Sick role
Relative deprivation
Generalized others
43. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Politics
Multiple-nuclei theory
Postmodern society
Bureaucratization
44. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Life expectancy
Megalopolis
Formal social control
Ascribed status
45. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Formal norms
Value neutrality
Matrilineal descent
Colonialism
46. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Bourgeoisie
Matrilineal descent
Looking-glass self
Census
47. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
White-collar crime
Polygamy
Serial monogamy
Social structure
48. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Control group
Social science
Master status
Ethnic group
49. According to
Minority group
Multinational corporations
Religion
Second shift
50. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
White-collar crime
Modernization theory
Teacher-expectancy effect
Mass media