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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 status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Observation
Master status
Protestant ethic
2. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Death rate
Theory
Voluntary associations
White-collar crime
3. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Professional criminal
Polygyny
Castes
Bilingualism
4. 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.
Control group
Domestic partnership
Power
Laissez-faire
5. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Model or ideal minority
Hidden curriculum
Wealth
Research design
6. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Racial group
Life chances
Informal norms
Value neutrality
7. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Secondary group
Bureaucracy
Denomination
Anomie
8. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Ethnocentrism
Anomie
Sacred
Mores
9. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
Single-parent families
Stigma
Voluntary associations
10. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Absolute poverty
Force
Role taking
Traditional authority
11. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Nisei
Anticipatory socialization
Research design
Environmental justice
12. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Profane
Cult
Natural science
Issei
13. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Hawthorne effect
Looking-glass self
Multiple-nuclei theory
Polygamy
14. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Iron law of oligarchy
Death rate
Protestant ethic
Dependent variable
15. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Second shift
Folkways
Legal-rational authority
Homophobia
16. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Conflict perspective
Surveillance function
Concentric-zone theory
Small group
17. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Endogamy
Single-parent families
Downsizing
Expressiveness
18. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Value neutrality
Horticultural societies
Neocolonialism
Society
19. 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.
Instrumentality
Organized crime
Iron law of oligarchy
Infant mortality rate
20. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Genocide
Theory
Prevalence
Opinion leader
21. 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.
Disengagement theory
In-group
Assimilation
Health
22. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Life chances
Scientific management approach
Culture shock
Gesellschaft
23. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Status group
Traditional authority
Anticipatory socialization
Secularization
24. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Patrilineal descent
Vital statistics
Code of ethics
25. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Deviance
Social institutions
Hidden curriculum
Interactionist perspective
26. 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.
Intragenerational mobility
Sample
Life chances
Sexual harassment
27. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Megalopolis
Bilateral descent
Extended family
Laissez-faire
28. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Innovation
Diffusion
Degradation ceremony
Gerontology
29. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Feminist perspective
Teacher-expectancy effect
Classical theory
Equilibrium model
30. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Racial group
Value neutrality
Experimental group
Authority
31. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Concentric-zone theory
Protestant ethic
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Vested interests
32. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Verstehen
Telecommuters
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Dependent variable
33. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Institutional discrimination
Multiple-nuclei theory
Informal economy
Sample
34. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Matriarchy
Profane
Nonverbal communication
Monopoly
35. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Institutional discrimination
Dependency theory
Prevalence
Multinational corporations
36. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Norms
Incest taboo
Alienation
Normal accidents
37. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Role strain
Victimization surveys
Coalition
Patriarchy
38. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Content analysis
Bourgeoisie
Out-group
Dominant ideology
39. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Innovation
Gerontology
Sect
40. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Social structure
Random sample
Pluralism
Natural science
41. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Informal norms
Exploitation theory
Scientific management approach
Anomie
42. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Role conflict
Argot
Surveillance function
Demography
43. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Deindustrialization
Society
Law
Creationism
44. 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.
Monopoly
Code of ethics
Capitalism
Influence
45. 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.
Negotiation
Society
Nonverbal communication
Random sample
46. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Deindustrialization
Generalized others
Multiple-nuclei theory
47. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Slavery
Significant others
Bureaucracy
Postindustrial society
48. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Self
Crime
Second shift
Underclass
49. 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.
Vested interests
Control variable
Theory
Environmental justice
50. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
New social movements
Social inequality
Macrosociology
Class system