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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 literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Creationism
Amalgamation
Economic system
Scientific management approach
2. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Education
Discrimination
Social interaction
Class
3. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Formal organization
Profane
Role conflict
Negotiated order
4. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Power elite
Census
Ethnic group
Institutional discrimination
5. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Formal organization
Invention
Social institutions
Relative deprivation
6. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Culture shock
Microsociology
Neocolonialism
Postindustrial society
7. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Reference group
Life chances
Nonmaterial culture
8. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Nonmaterial culture
Affirmative action
Diffusion
Routine activities theory
9. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Random sample
Primary group
Tracking
Defended neighborhood
10. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Control group
Stigma
Extended family
Personality
11. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Subculture
Status group
Primary group
Informal social control
12. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Mortality rate
Status
Polygyny
Prejudice
13. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Health
Ascribed status
Survey
Primary group
14. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Legal-rational authority
Scientific method
Role exit
Social institutions
15. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Nonverbal communication
Out-group
Language
Formal norms
16. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Evolutionary theory
Invention
Polyandry
17. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Instrumentality
Folkways
Ageism
Life expectancy
18. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Exogamy
Looking-glass self
Objective method
Sociology
19. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Underclass
Gesellschaft
Model or ideal minority
Organized crime
20. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Societal-reaction approach
Proletariat
Death rate
Racial group
21. 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.
E-commerce
New urban sociology
Human ecology
Urbanism
22. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Agrarian society
Social constructionist perspective
Norms
Industrial society
23. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Expressiveness
Closed system
Second shift
Ethnocentrism
24. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Folkways
Income
Exogamy
Narcotizing dysfunction
25. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Questionnaire
Absolute poverty
Manifest functions
Multinational corporations
26. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Society
Hunting-and-gathering society
Dyad
Machismo
27. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Growth rate
Multinational corporations
Narcotizing dysfunction
Polygyny
28. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Ageism
Natural science
Institutional discrimination
29. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Interview
Prestige
Cultural relativism
Experiment
30. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Hawthorne effect
Social network
Urbanism
Dependency theory
31. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Patrilineal descent
Secondary analysis
Polyandry
32. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Routine activities theory
Face-work
Differential association
Class consciousness
33. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Relative deprivation
Concentric-zone theory
Rites of passage
Causal logic
34. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Stratification
Reliability
Influence
Survey
35. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Sanctions
Sick role
Achieved status
Resource mobilization
36. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Political system
Social role
Class consciousness
Human relations approach
37. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Influence
Gatekeeping
Tracking
Conformity
38. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Microsociology
Growth rate
Bilingualism
Incest taboo
39. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Gatekeeping
Degradation ceremony
Income
Political socialization
40. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Growth rate
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Dependent variable
Scientific management approach
41. 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.
Nisei
Crime
Health
Validity
42. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Power
Esteem
Horticultural societies
Sociology
43. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Labeling theory
Monogamy
Organized crime
Scientific management approach
44. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
Face-work
Cultural universals
Social change
45. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Bureaucracy
Social constructionist perspective
Socialization
Preindustrial city
46. 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.
Incidence
Globalization
Cultural transmission
Religious experience
47. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Scientific method
Differential association
False consciousness
Urbanism
48. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
In-group
Traditional authority
Cognitive theory of development
Polygyny
49. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Opinion leader
Group
Evolutionary theory
50. The scientific study of population.
Modernization theory
Differential association
False consciousness
Demography