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CLEP Sociology
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Cognitive theory of development
Hunting-and-gathering society
Bourgeoisie
Informal norms
2. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
E-commerce
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Formal norms
Demography
3. Another name for labeling theory.
Life chances
Second shift
Societal-reaction approach
Elite model
4. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Bourgeoisie
Downsizing
Secularization
Macrosociology
5. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Social movements
Dramaturgical approach
New social movements
Castes
6. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Status
Informal norms
Polygyny
Victimless crimes
7. 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
Political system
Deindustrialization
Telecommuters
8. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Observation
Out-group
Survey
Social role
9. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential association
Trained incapacity
Concentric-zone theory
Observation
10. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Industrial society
Anomie
Content analysis
Postmodern society
11. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Control variable
Postmodern society
Cultural relativism
Dependency theory
12. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Concentric-zone theory
Wealth
Prestige
Profane
13. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Secularization
Value neutrality
Politics
Agrarian society
14. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Extended family
New urban sociology
Diffusion
Black power
15. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Norms
Informal norms
Social institutions
Dependency theory
16. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Class
Apartheid
Mass media
Self
17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status
Status group
Cult
Fertility
18. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Role strain
New social movements
Infant mortality rate
Modernization theory
19. A three-member group.
Socialism
Political socialization
Triad
Argot
20. According to
Value neutrality
Religion
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Secondary group
21. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Class consciousness
Demography
Bilateral descent
Concentric-zone theory
22. 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.
Class consciousness
Agrarian society
Genocide
Language
23. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Sociobiology
Amalgamation
Alienation
Informal norms
24. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Legal-rational authority
Serial monogamy
Theory
In-group
25. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Income
Dominant ideology
Correspondence principle
Relative poverty
26. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Pluralist model
Amalgamation
Religion
Sect
27. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Terrorism
Status group
Traditional authority
28. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Trained incapacity
Preindustrial city
Social mobility
Science
29. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Alienation
Socialization
Dysfunction
Culture shock
30. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Questionnaire
Intragenerational mobility
Secondary group
Experiment
31. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Incidence
Creationism
Achieved status
Preindustrial city
32. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Power elite
Scientific method
Closed system
Counterculture
33. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Random sample
Routine activities theory
Life expectancy
Horticultural societies
34. The scientific study of population.
Conformity
Polyandry
Demography
Laissez-faire
35. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Politics
Formal norms
Megalopolis
Dependency theory
36. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Multiple-nuclei theory
Nisei
Surveillance function
37. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Normal accidents
Monogamy
Secularization
Institutional discrimination
38. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Class
Subculture
Significant others
Monopoly
39. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Dyad
Self
Gender roles
Force
40. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Survey
Gemeinschaft
Face-work
Activity theory
41. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Science
Colonialism
Mass media
Discovery
42. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Social change
Experiment
Causal logic
World systems analysis
43. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Open system
Interactionist perspective
Suburb
Negotiation
44. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Bilingualism
Variable
Extended family
Discrimination
45. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Luddites
Innovation
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Validity
46. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Status group
Cultural transmission
Issei
Society
47. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Exploitation theory
Human ecology
Bureaucratization
Interview
48. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Counterculture
Model or ideal minority
Extended family
Concentric-zone theory
49. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Organized crime
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Control group
Monogamy
50. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Morbidity rates
Prejudice
Community
Ethnocentrism