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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. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Science
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Politics
Variable
2. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Affirmative action
Genocide
Cult
Folkways
3. 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.
Objective method
Evolutionary theory
Defended neighborhood
Survey
4. 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.
Closed system
Exploitation theory
Impression management
Patrilineal descent
5. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Formal social control
Activity theory
Reference group
Degradation ceremony
6. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Growth rate
Reliability
Monogamy
Elite model
7. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Secularization
Patriarchy
Research design
Single-parent families
8. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Scientific management approach
Machismo
Political system
Kinship
9. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Law
Socialism
Significant others
10. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Horizontal mobility
Status group
Birthrate
Role strain
11. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Nisei
Adoption
Diffusion
12. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Life expectancy
Power
Traditional authority
Nuclear family
13. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Theory
Research design
Defended neighborhood
Professional criminal
14. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Underclass
Sacred
Bourgeoisie
Functionalist perspective
15. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Preindustrial city
Hawthorne effect
Experimental group
Verstehen
16. 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.
Culture
Kinship
Liberation theology
Negotiation
17. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Gerontology
Second shift
Narcotizing dysfunction
Nisei
18. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Labeling theory
Feminist perspective
Social inequality
Subculture
19. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Anti-Semitism
Vital statistics
Group
Modernization
20. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Causal logic
Charismatic authority
Experimental group
Obedience
21. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Latent functions
Secondary group
Amalgamation
Correspondence principle
22. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Variable
Victimless crimes
Stratification
23. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Egalitarian family
Politics
Surveillance function
Small group
24. 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.
Culture shock
Culture
Creationism
Culture lag
25. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Liberation theology
Incidence
Social network
Societal-reaction approach
26. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Group
Cognitive theory of development
Organized crime
Value neutrality
27. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Incidence
Social structure
Gerontology
Value neutrality
28. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Nonverbal communication
Wealth
Cultural transmission
Infant mortality rate
29. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Labeling theory
E-commerce
Legal-rational authority
Victimless crimes
30. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Peter principle
Contact hypothesis
Exploitation theory
Defended neighborhood
31. 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.
Theory
Sect
Minority group
Nonmaterial culture
32. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Conflict perspective
Cultural universals
Natural science
Postmodern society
33. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Defended neighborhood
Postindustrial city
Classical theory
Looking-glass self
34. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Wealth
Nonverbal communication
Correspondence principle
Informal norms
35. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Capitalism
Urban ecology
Observation
Values
36. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Goal displacement
Social epidemiology
Innovation
37. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Pluralism
Face-work
Stratification
Cult
38. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Conformity
Status group
Invention
Kinship
39. A three-member group.
Small group
Causal logic
Triad
Stratification
40. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Established sect
Birthrate
Incidence
41. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Issei
Postindustrial city
Out-group
Dramaturgical approach
42. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Manifest functions
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Triad
Matrilineal descent
43. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Social inequality
Second shift
Deindustrialization
Force
44. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Looking-glass self
Sect
Quantitative research
Formal organization
45. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Sexual harassment
Culture shock
Sociological imagination
Cohabitation
46. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Population pyramid
Liberation theology
Control theory
Mores
47. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Profane
Liberation theology
Formal organization
Negotiation
48. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Fertility
Morbidity rates
Labor unions
Religious beliefs
49. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Institutional discrimination
Absolute poverty
Cohabitation
Growth rate
50. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Coalition
Concentric-zone theory
Anti-Semitism