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CLEP Sociology
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1. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Group
Sect
Laissez-faire
Death rate
2. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Role taking
Familism
Cohabitation
Social institutions
3. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Scientific management approach
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Societal-reaction approach
Microsociology
4. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Achieved status
Alienation
Black power
Secondary analysis
5. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Protestant ethic
Racial group
Vertical mobility
Role exit
6. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Discovery
New urban sociology
Life chances
Monogamy
7. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Curanderismo
Glass ceiling
Dysfunction
Racism
8. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Dramaturgical approach
Dysfunction
Demography
9. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Trained incapacity
Activity theory
White-collar crime
Significant others
10. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Creationism
Culture shock
Gender roles
Societal-reaction approach
11. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Institutional discrimination
Victimization surveys
Self
Xenocentrism
12. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Socialism
Sacred
Informal norms
Fertility
13. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Social inequality
Kinship
Issei
14. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Influence
Anomie theory of deviance
Science
Quantitative research
15. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Economic system
Environmental justice
Law
Ageism
16. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Social science
Relative deprivation
Credentialism
Formal social control
17. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Racism
Serial monogamy
Castes
Mores
18. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Sacred
Kinship
Institutional discrimination
Charismatic authority
19. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Force
Capitalism
Bureaucracy
Scientific method
20. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Organized crime
Social inequality
Quantitative research
Denomination
21. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Growth rate
Role strain
Degradation ceremony
Elite model
22. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Egalitarian family
Formal organization
Informal social control
Gatekeeping
23. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Bilateral descent
Sanctions
Absolute poverty
Patriarchy
24. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
New social movements
Reliability
Socialism
Argot
25. 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.
Serial monogamy
Organized crime
Theory
Social network
26. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Patriarchy
Dyad
Dependency theory
Open system
27. 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.
Gesellschaft
Environmental justice
Prevalence
Sacred
28. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Slavery
Deindustrialization
Downsizing
Traditional authority
29. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Class consciousness
Iron law of oligarchy
Experimental group
Population pyramid
30. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Social role
Survey
Sexual harassment
31. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Denomination
Domestic partnership
Social science
32. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Ascribed status
Serial monogamy
Influence
Secondary analysis
33. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Esteem
Causal logic
Institutional discrimination
Manifest functions
34. Salaries and wages.
New social movements
Income
Ethnic group
Feminist perspective
35. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Postmodern society
Questionnaire
Class consciousness
Bourgeoisie
36. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Death rate
Education
Normal accidents
Primary group
37. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Goal displacement
Ageism
Social change
Causal logic
38. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Coalition
Vital statistics
Glass ceiling
39. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Norms
Labeling theory
Impression management
Role conflict
40. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Theory
Fertility
Impression management
Expressiveness
41. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Counterculture
Multinational corporations
Familism
Political system
42. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Health
Incest taboo
Prejudice
Zero population growth (ZPG)
43. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Differential association
Nuclear family
Established sect
44. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Globalization
Innovation
Scientific management approach
Science
45. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Labor unions
Anomie
Class system
Norms
46. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Survey
Interview
Theory
Familism
47. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Experiment
Sociology
Nonverbal communication
Formal social control
48. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Prevalence
Natural science
World systems analysis
Sample
49. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Stratification
Voluntary associations
Bourgeoisie
Income
50. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Wealth
Denomination
Multilinear evolutionary theory