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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. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Intergenerational mobility
Traditional authority
Causal logic
Credentialism
2. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Environmental justice
Language
Nonmaterial culture
Pluralism
3. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Victimization surveys
Operational definition
Social network
Independent variable
4. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Relative poverty
Subculture
Institutional discrimination
Polygamy
5. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Hawthorne effect
Legal-rational authority
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Class
6. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Natural science
Gender roles
Sick role
Science
7. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Cognitive theory of development
Postmodern society
Activity theory
Urbanism
8. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Dramaturgical approach
Hypothesis
Preindustrial city
Qualitative research
9. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Dysfunction
Institutional discrimination
Cultural transmission
Modernization theory
10. Salaries and wages.
Polygyny
Income
Profane
Discrimination
11. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Goal displacement
Self
Modernization
Obedience
12. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
White-collar crime
Demographic transition
Self
Opinion leader
13. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Deviance
Closed system
Ethnography
Exploitation theory
14. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Nisei
Serial monogamy
Gatekeeping
15. 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.
Significant others
Credentialism
Correspondence principle
Equilibrium model
16. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Intergenerational mobility
Domestic partnership
Gemeinschaft
Exogamy
17. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Polygyny
Postmodern society
Pluralism
Gender roles
18. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Protestant ethic
Charismatic authority
Black power
Profane
19. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Esteem
Bureaucratization
Proletariat
Kinship
20. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Education
Growth rate
Experimental group
Scientific method
21. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Amalgamation
Minority group
Closed system
Unilinear evolutionary theory
22. 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.
Credentialism
Societal-reaction approach
Horizontal mobility
Impression management
23. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Denomination
Laissez-faire
Extended family
Experiment
24. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Achieved status
Institutional discrimination
Hypothesis
Ascribed status
25. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Quantitative research
Control theory
Family
Anomie theory of deviance
26. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Negotiation
Achieved status
Matrilineal descent
Stratification
27. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Esteem
Sample
Social epidemiology
Suburb
28. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Dyad
Sanctions
Modernization
Urban ecology
29. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Health
Coalition
Life chances
Human ecology
30. The study of various aspects of human society.
Social epidemiology
Industrial society
Control theory
Social science
31. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Sexism
Endogamy
Vertical mobility
Negotiation
32. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Familism
Intragenerational mobility
Qualitative research
Obedience
33. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Latent functions
Political system
Social network
34. General practices found in every culture.
Ethnocentrism
Cultural universals
Established sect
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
35. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Bureaucracy
Model or ideal minority
Questionnaire
Preindustrial city
36. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Amalgamation
Assimilation
Prevalence
Black power
37. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Nonverbal communication
Machismo
Open system
Scientific method
38. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Laissez-faire
Manifest functions
Issei
Sick role
39. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Evolutionary theory
Counterculture
Sociological imagination
Family
40. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Population pyramid
Machismo
Cognitive theory of development
Coalition
41. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Relative poverty
Significant others
Adoption
Denomination
42. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Terrorism
Functionalist perspective
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Demography
43. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Social constructionist perspective
Monopoly
Capitalism
Incest taboo
44. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
In-group
Conformity
Goal displacement
Victimization surveys
45. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Informal norms
Professional criminal
Teacher-expectancy effect
Negotiation
46. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Morbidity rates
Cognitive theory of development
Microsociology
47. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Resocialization
Bourgeoisie
Hawthorne effect
48. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Socialism
Scientific method
Denomination
Authority
49. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Economic system
Discrimination
Content analysis
Relative deprivation
50. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Religious experience
Vested interests
Survey
Labeling theory