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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.
Status group
Amalgamation
Social science
Matriarchy
2. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Life chances
Iron law of oligarchy
Traditional authority
Postindustrial city
3. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Discrimination
Bourgeoisie
Interactionist perspective
Victimless crimes
4. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Informal economy
Significant others
Profane
Segregation
5. The study of various aspects of human society.
Sociological imagination
Folkways
Social science
Social movements
6. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Endogamy
Secularization
Folkways
7. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Total institutions
Closed system
Issei
Iron law of oligarchy
8. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Social role
Variable
Protestant ethic
Segregation
9. 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.
Wealth
Power elite
Society
Population pyramid
10. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Variable
Racism
Modernization theory
Religious experience
11. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Census
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Formal norms
Role strain
12. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Industrial society
Exploitation theory
Ethnocentrism
Natural science
13. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Open system
Gesellschaft
Homophobia
Hidden curriculum
14. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Qualitative research
Latent functions
Sociocultural evolution
15. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Social change
Causal logic
Affirmative action
Operational definition
16. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Suburb
Charismatic authority
Politics
Out-group
17. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Human relations approach
Sick role
Serial monogamy
Gemeinschaft
18. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Vital statistics
Cohabitation
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Differential association
19. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Role exit
Mores
Assimilation
20. The scientific study of population.
Megalopolis
Sect
Demography
Familism
21. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
In-group
Control variable
Infant mortality rate
Language
22. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Prevalence
Life expectancy
Conformity
Goal displacement
23. The state of being related to others.
Kinship
Bilateral descent
Science
Formal norms
24. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Adoption
Open system
Gesellschaft
Macrosociology
25. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Content analysis
In-group
Diffusion
Cultural transmission
26. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Values
Self
Looking-glass self
Formal social control
27. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Agrarian society
Life chances
Denomination
Operational definition
28. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Second shift
Observation
Bourgeoisie
Bureaucratization
29. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Elite model
Equilibrium model
Labor unions
Matriarchy
30. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Egalitarian family
Role exit
Language
Ethnography
31. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Racial group
Issei
Ascribed status
Negotiated order
32. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Stigma
Sect
Scientific method
Gatekeeping
33. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Victimization surveys
Assimilation
Xenocentrism
Ethnocentrism
34. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Goal displacement
Mores
Racism
Polygyny
35. The incidence of death in a given population.
Underclass
Census
Mortality rate
Ethnocentrism
36. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Control variable
Anti-Semitism
Pluralist model
Proletariat
37. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Prejudice
Discovery
Polygamy
Affirmative action
38. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Ethnic group
Sociobiology
Causal logic
Extended family
39. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Rites of passage
Black power
Force
Societal-reaction approach
40. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Discovery
Vital statistics
Resocialization
Values
41. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Census
Agrarian society
Counterculture
42. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Expressiveness
Closed system
Telecommuters
Science
43. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Science
Informal economy
Telecommuters
Gerontology
44. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.
Reliability
Power elite
Values
Research design
45. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Downsizing
Colonialism
Opinion leader
Independent variable
46. 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.
Extended family
Proletariat
Verstehen
Bilingualism
47. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.
Objective method
Correspondence principle
Functionalist perspective
Diffusion
48. 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.
Interview
Language
Life chances
Adoption
49. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Informal social control
Coalition
Ethnography
Gender roles
50. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Gerontology
Qualitative research
Cohabitation
Megalopolis