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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Wealth
Role conflict
Vested interests
Rites of passage
2. A three-member group.
Triad
Social interaction
Functionalist perspective
Machismo
3. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Sociobiology
Religious rituals
Charismatic authority
Informal economy
4. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Exploitation theory
Life chances
Gemeinschaft
Cult
5. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Protestant ethic
Horticultural societies
Independent variable
Activity theory
6. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Monogamy
Social constructionist perspective
Underclass
Unilinear evolutionary theory
7. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Liberation theology
Familism
Authority
Ideal type
8. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Monogamy
Routine activities theory
Latent functions
Creationism
9. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Esteem
Alienation
Out-group
Folkways
10. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Dyad
Observation
Control variable
Reliability
11. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Technology
Random sample
Class
Social network
12. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Theory
Observation
Prestige
Absolute poverty
13. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Nuclear family
Status
Prevalence
Modernization theory
14. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Luddites
Single-parent families
Formal norms
Experiment
15. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Xenocentrism
Life chances
Credentialism
Downsizing
16. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Gerontology
Rites of passage
Cultural transmission
In-group
17. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Formal norms
Crime
Cultural relativism
Political socialization
18. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Politics
Conformity
Pluralist model
Colonialism
19. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Rites of passage
Interactionist perspective
Role strain
Proletariat
20. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Wealth
Glass ceiling
Industrial society
21. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Prestige
Activity theory
Community
Multiple-nuclei theory
22. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Agrarian society
Deviance
Significant others
Alienation
23. 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.
Religious experience
Experiment
Community
Coalition
24. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Secondary group
Industrial society
Credentialism
Social mobility
25. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Crime
Anticipatory socialization
Exploitation theory
Sample
26. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Experimental group
Face-work
Ascribed status
Model or ideal minority
27. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Socialism
Telecommuters
Total fertility rate (TFR)
28. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Sect
Labeling theory
Vital statistics
Anti-Semitism
29. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Multinational corporations
Industrial society
Credentialism
Questionnaire
30. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Classical theory
Matriarchy
Conflict perspective
Birthrate
31. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Homophobia
Negotiated order
Open system
Exploitation theory
32. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Victimization surveys
Negotiated order
Professional criminal
Material culture
33. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Polygamy
Law
Preindustrial city
34. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Social epidemiology
Degradation ceremony
Sexual harassment
Matriarchy
35. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Stereotypes
Social structure
Fertility
Macrosociology
36. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Informal economy
Class consciousness
Socialization
Experiment
37. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Scientific management approach
Ideal type
Teacher-expectancy effect
Machismo
38. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Castes
Apartheid
Secondary analysis
Control variable
39. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Correspondence principle
Ascribed status
Labor unions
Assimilation
40. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
Relative poverty
Class consciousness
Elite model
41. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Deviance
Birthrate
Stigma
Impression management
42. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Formal social control
Dependency theory
Activity theory
Opinion leader
43. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Apartheid
Cohabitation
Sociological imagination
Control group
44. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Informal norms
Evolutionary theory
Postindustrial society
Serial monogamy
45. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Traditional authority
Relative deprivation
Family
46. 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.
Influence
Sanctions
Pluralist model
Vested interests
47. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Small group
Endogamy
Hawthorne effect
Influence
48. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Model or ideal minority
Infant mortality rate
Horizontal mobility
Culture shock
49. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Activity theory
Experiment
Expressiveness
Credentialism
50. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Cultural universals
Pluralism
Nisei
Political socialization