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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 theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Deindustrialization
Equilibrium model
Religious beliefs
2. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Sociology
Postindustrial society
Pluralist model
Environmental justice
3. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Formal organization
Anomie
Racial group
Science
4. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Racism
Amalgamation
Master status
Qualitative research
5. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Out-group
Objective method
Sexual harassment
Alienation
6. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Prejudice
Wealth
Megalopolis
Modernization theory
7. The scientific study of population.
Coalition
Population pyramid
Demography
Operational definition
8. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Black power
Informal norms
White-collar crime
Cultural relativism
9. 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.
Modernization
Social mobility
Pluralism
Institutional discrimination
10. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Role taking
Power
Class consciousness
Language
11. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Bureaucratization
Impression management
Bilateral descent
Industrial society
12. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Infant mortality rate
Monopoly
Vertical mobility
Politics
13. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Relative poverty
Machismo
Hypothesis
14. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Social constructionist perspective
Slavery
Formal organization
Morbidity rates
15. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Patrilineal descent
Mass media
Nonverbal communication
Scientific management approach
16. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Established sect
Folkways
Multiple-nuclei theory
Globalization
17. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Law
Formal norms
Vertical mobility
Ideal type
18. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Professional criminal
Multinational corporations
McDonaldization
Activity theory
19. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Society
Life expectancy
Kinship
20. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Issei
Validity
Code of ethics
Class
21. General practices found in every culture.
Cultural universals
Ascribed status
Preindustrial city
Demographic transition
22. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Conformity
Class
Self
Affirmative action
23. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Bilateral descent
Terrorism
Tracking
Infant mortality rate
24. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Esteem
Egalitarian family
Out-group
Demography
25. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Exploitation theory
Interview
Mass media
Monogamy
26. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Informal social control
Traditional authority
Informal norms
Creationism
27. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Patriarchy
Role taking
Hidden curriculum
Familism
28. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Normal accidents
Quantitative research
Activity theory
Elite model
29. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Resource mobilization
Anomie theory of deviance
Sick role
False consciousness
30. Salaries and wages.
Triad
Bureaucratization
Income
Activity theory
31. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Black power
Force
Scientific management approach
Vertical mobility
32. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Luddites
Religious beliefs
Liberation theology
Teacher-expectancy effect
33. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Goal displacement
Socialism
Modernization theory
Iron law of oligarchy
34. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Political system
Segregation
Content analysis
Technology
35. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Random sample
Industrial society
Matrilineal descent
Nuclear family
36. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Language
Authority
Opinion leader
Secondary analysis
37. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Macrosociology
Science
Social inequality
Deviance
38. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
E-commerce
Victimization surveys
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
World systems analysis
39. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Labeling theory
Sanctions
Sociocultural evolution
Sexism
40. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Routine activities theory
Labeling theory
Industrial society
Social control
41. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Victimization surveys
Obedience
Human relations approach
Castes
42. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Disengagement theory
Role taking
Concentric-zone theory
Anomie
43. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Obedience
Class system
Credentialism
44. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Megalopolis
Elite model
Telecommuters
Dependent variable
45. 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.
Denomination
Diffusion
Negotiated order
Sect
46. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Sacred
Control group
Infant mortality rate
Postindustrial society
47. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Horticultural societies
Postindustrial city
Social interaction
Cognitive theory of development
48. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Role exit
Control theory
Hidden curriculum
49. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Family
Political socialization
Patrilineal descent
Environmental justice
50. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Polyandry
Extended family
Control group