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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. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Incidence
Feminist perspective
Demographic transition
Quantitative research
2. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Ascribed status
Anomie
Activity theory
Politics
3. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Social constructionist perspective
Folkways
Underclass
Negotiated order
4. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Formal social control
Exploitation theory
Nisei
Socialization
5. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Questionnaire
Gender roles
Social change
Life chances
6. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Resource mobilization
Opinion leader
Racism
Functionalist perspective
7. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Traditional authority
Genocide
Horizontal mobility
Open system
8. Salaries and wages.
Sick role
Instrumentality
Values
Income
9. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Income
Bilateral descent
Formal social control
Code of ethics
10. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Defended neighborhood
Correlation
Verstehen
Crime
11. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Interactionist perspective
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Amalgamation
Tracking
12. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Differential association
Legal-rational authority
Xenocentrism
Narcotizing dysfunction
13. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Second shift
Victimization surveys
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
McDonaldization
14. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Informal economy
Downsizing
Megalopolis
Vested interests
15. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
New urban sociology
Globalization
Sacred
Innovation
16. The incidence of death in a given population.
Mortality rate
Wealth
Birthrate
Societal-reaction approach
17. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Income
Role taking
White-collar crime
18. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Symbols
Quantitative research
Sociobiology
Unilinear evolutionary theory
19. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Horizontal mobility
Causal logic
Macrosociology
Cultural relativism
20. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Legal-rational authority
Research design
Gatekeeping
Colonialism
21. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Conflict perspective
Social control
Apartheid
Differential association
22. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Role taking
Class
Bureaucratization
Anomie
23. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Cohabitation
Assimilation
Voluntary associations
Alienation
24. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Face-work
Creationism
Anticipatory socialization
Voluntary associations
25. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Surveillance function
Questionnaire
Achieved status
Tracking
26. The state of being related to others.
Vested interests
Triad
Kinship
Causal logic
27. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Postmodern society
Life chances
Code of ethics
Gerontology
28. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Bilateral descent
Research design
Sanctions
Issei
29. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Suburb
Infant mortality rate
Human relations approach
Argot
30. General practices found in every culture.
Manifest functions
Population pyramid
Human relations approach
Cultural universals
31. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Counterculture
Postindustrial society
Code of ethics
Technology
32. 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.
Laissez-faire
Extended family
Technology
Pluralism
33. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Esteem
Correspondence principle
Human relations approach
Culture
34. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Social network
Trained incapacity
Activity theory
35. 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.
Globalization
Narcotizing dysfunction
Class consciousness
Social science
36. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Serial monogamy
Charismatic authority
Hypothesis
Master status
37. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Socialization
Triad
Routine activities theory
Looking-glass self
38. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Social structure
Out-group
Victimless crimes
Macrosociology
39. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Religious experience
Secondary analysis
Hidden curriculum
Bilingualism
40. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Apartheid
Birthrate
Assimilation
Professional criminal
41. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Xenocentrism
Minority group
White-collar crime
Unilinear evolutionary theory
42. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Castes
Mortality rate
Cultural relativism
Gerontology
43. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Industrial city
Informal social control
Elite model
Preindustrial city
44. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Closed system
Demographic transition
Interview
Scientific management approach
45. 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.
Mass media
Underclass
New urban sociology
Polyandry
46. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Education
Reliability
Survey
Gemeinschaft
47. Governmental social control.
Stratification
White-collar crime
Mass media
Law
48. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Racial group
Face-work
Socialism
Life expectancy
49. 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.
Role exit
Anti-Semitism
Achieved status
Generalized others
50. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Hidden curriculum
Bilingualism
Science
Subculture