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CLEP Sociology
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1. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Laissez-faire
Surveillance function
Role exit
Argot
2. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Exploitation theory
Capitalism
Voluntary associations
Role exit
3. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Glass ceiling
Victimization surveys
Community
Protestant ethic
4. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Prevalence
Goal displacement
Urban ecology
Law
5. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
False consciousness
Sexual harassment
Experimental group
Death rate
6. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Stigma
Income
Curanderismo
7. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Religious rituals
Dramaturgical approach
Vertical mobility
Human relations approach
8. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Class consciousness
Research design
Religious rituals
9. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Religious experience
Megalopolis
Norms
Equilibrium model
10. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
False consciousness
Contact hypothesis
Verstehen
Resource mobilization
11. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Folkways
Social movements
Single-parent families
12. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Community
Language
Narcotizing dysfunction
Informal economy
13. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Ethnography
Argot
Classical theory
Conformity
14. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Argot
Bureaucracy
Elite model
Achieved status
15. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Voluntary associations
Labeling theory
Cultural relativism
Neocolonialism
16. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Value neutrality
Role conflict
Assimilation
Social change
17. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Intergenerational mobility
Relative deprivation
Master status
Theory
18. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Elite model
Culture lag
Health
Nuclear family
19. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Looking-glass self
Authority
Established sect
Code of ethics
20. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Face-work
Human relations approach
Monopoly
Surveillance function
21. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Elite model
Degradation ceremony
Monogamy
Law
22. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Endogamy
Cognitive theory of development
Negotiation
Dysfunction
23. 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.
Sect
Iron law of oligarchy
Profane
Voluntary associations
24. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Issei
Social control
Sociology
Experiment
25. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Labeling theory
Hawthorne effect
Equilibrium model
Secondary analysis
26. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Pluralist model
Random sample
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Class system
27. 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.
Postindustrial city
World systems analysis
Microsociology
New urban sociology
28. 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.
Surveillance function
Vested interests
Demographic transition
Personality
29. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Victimless crimes
Endogamy
Anomie
30. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Ethnic group
Small group
Stigma
Horizontal mobility
31. The study of various aspects of human society.
Traditional authority
Monopoly
Social science
Social change
32. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
New social movements
Feminist perspective
Charismatic authority
Postindustrial society
33. 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.
Informal norms
Innovation
Expressiveness
Gesellschaft
34. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Rites of passage
Cultural transmission
Significant others
35. The scientific study of population.
Victimless crimes
Domestic partnership
Demography
Scientific management approach
36. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Colonialism
Exogamy
Trained incapacity
Single-parent families
37. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Class
Out-group
Variable
Class consciousness
38. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Dyad
New urban sociology
Conformity
39. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Wealth
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Socialism
Demography
40. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Prevalence
Cognitive theory of development
Bureaucratization
Genocide
41. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Argot
Cult
Polyandry
Proletariat
42. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Cohabitation
Sociocultural evolution
Role exit
Suburb
43. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Sanctions
Religious beliefs
Sexual harassment
Genocide
44. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Causal logic
New social movements
Absolute poverty
Opinion leader
45. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Counterculture
Interview
Status
Activity theory
46. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Folkways
Theory
Human relations approach
Total fertility rate (TFR)
47. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Monogamy
Anti-Semitism
Incidence
Status group
48. 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.
Power elite
Social change
Multiple-nuclei theory
Opinion leader
49. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Nonverbal communication
Role conflict
Crime
Total institutions
50. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Wealth
Anomie
Patrilineal descent
Degradation ceremony