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CLEP Sociology
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1. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Ethnography
Status group
Observation
Wealth
2. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Anti-Semitism
Secularization
Cultural relativism
3. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Victimization surveys
Dependency theory
Personality
New urban sociology
4. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Assimilation
Bilateral descent
Role taking
Interactionist perspective
5. 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.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Impression management
Multinational corporations
Multiple-nuclei theory
6. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Agrarian society
Gatekeeping
Proletariat
Small group
7. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Activity theory
Sanctions
Evolutionary theory
Tracking
8. 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.
Gesellschaft
Profane
Terrorism
Sect
9. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Hawthorne effect
Bilateral descent
Manifest functions
10. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Cognitive theory of development
Exploitation theory
Familism
Exogamy
11. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Trained incapacity
Latent functions
Voluntary associations
Class system
12. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Degradation ceremony
Secondary group
Genocide
Trained incapacity
13. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Looking-glass self
Independent variable
Latent functions
Classical theory
14. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Population pyramid
Group
Gatekeeping
Industrial city
15. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
World systems analysis
Postindustrial city
Patrilineal descent
Urban ecology
16. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Societal-reaction approach
Dyad
Life expectancy
17. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Degradation ceremony
Power elite
Symbols
18. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Established sect
Bilateral descent
Culture lag
Socialization
19. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Issei
Societal-reaction approach
Argot
Colonialism
20. 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 constructionist perspective
Prevalence
Cultural relativism
21. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Equilibrium model
Assimilation
Crime
Language
22. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Peter principle
Downsizing
Affirmative action
Sick role
23. 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.
Agrarian society
New urban sociology
Teacher-expectancy effect
Norms
24. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Absolute poverty
Material culture
Science
Infant mortality rate
25. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Negotiation
Credentialism
Scientific method
Status
26. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Kinship
Defended neighborhood
Socialization
Ecclesia
27. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Control variable
Control group
Social role
28. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Status group
Community
Religious beliefs
29. 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.
Group
Income
Power elite
Religious experience
30. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Amalgamation
Ageism
Social network
Religious experience
31. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Qualitative research
Social control
Personality
Manifest functions
32. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Control group
Ageism
Opinion leader
Elite model
33. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Role exit
Social inequality
Personality
Population pyramid
34. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Community
Informal social control
Prestige
Traditional authority
35. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Bureaucracy
Dramaturgical approach
Informal norms
World systems analysis
36. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Racial group
Bureaucratization
Urbanism
Glass ceiling
37. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Reliability
Curanderismo
Significant others
Crime
38. A three-member group.
Cultural relativism
Triad
Argot
Esteem
39. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Verstehen
Values
Neocolonialism
Social network
40. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Social science
Urbanism
Teacher-expectancy effect
Infant mortality rate
41. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Cohabitation
Neocolonialism
Social science
Influence
42. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Racism
Demographic transition
Horticultural societies
43. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.
Nonmaterial culture
Pluralism
Machismo
Patriarchy
44. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Anti-Semitism
Innovation
Latent functions
Role strain
45. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Ideal type
Cultural transmission
Random sample
Environmental justice
46. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
McDonaldization
Qualitative research
Prestige
Ascribed status
47. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Role exit
Social change
Bilingualism
Sick role
48. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
False consciousness
Absolute poverty
Adoption
Esteem
49. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Goal displacement
Sociological imagination
Racism
Postmodern society
50. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Scientific method
Rites of passage
Sociobiology
Bureaucratization