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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Natural science
Impression management
Vertical mobility
Black power
2. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Family
Informal social control
Neocolonialism
Formal social control
3. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Anomie
Polygyny
Role exit
Interview
4. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Voluntary associations
Cognitive theory of development
Status group
Disengagement theory
5. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Incidence
Cohabitation
Alienation
Incest taboo
6. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Total institutions
Random sample
Xenocentrism
In-group
7. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Population pyramid
Bourgeoisie
Counterculture
Theory
8. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Prestige
Concentric-zone theory
Symbols
Microsociology
9. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Discrimination
Bourgeoisie
Role exit
In-group
10. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Racial group
Informal norms
Social change
Triad
11. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Segregation
Goal displacement
Capitalism
Content analysis
12. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Domestic partnership
Feminist perspective
Intragenerational mobility
13. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.
Sick role
E-commerce
Human ecology
Power elite
14. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Bureaucratization
Significant others
Modernization
Genocide
15. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
Nuclear family
Environmental justice
Bilingualism
16. 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.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Informal social control
Culture
Traditional authority
17. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Prejudice
Instrumentality
Total institutions
Formal norms
18. 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.
Total institutions
Classical theory
Value neutrality
New urban sociology
19. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Personality
Manifest functions
Resource mobilization
Second shift
20. 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.
Professional criminal
Zero population growth (ZPG)
World systems analysis
Capitalism
21. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Socialization
Negotiation
Differential association
Crime
22. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Traditional authority
Looking-glass self
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Postindustrial society
23. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Argot
Authority
Cognitive theory of development
Health
24. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Urbanism
Dramaturgical approach
Diffusion
Experiment
25. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Adoption
Influence
Triad
Informal social control
26. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Domestic partnership
Classical theory
Professional criminal
Observation
27. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Cultural transmission
Polyandry
Correlation
Underclass
28. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Peter principle
Environmental justice
Looking-glass self
Ethnocentrism
29. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Ethnocentrism
Bilateral descent
Family
Political socialization
30. Salaries and wages.
Mores
Matrilineal descent
Deviance
Income
31. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Gatekeeping
Interactionist perspective
Terrorism
Experimental group
32. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Dominant ideology
Morbidity rates
Relative poverty
Hidden curriculum
33. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Family
Incest taboo
Narcotizing dysfunction
Innovation
34. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Differential association
Protestant ethic
Anomie theory of deviance
Human relations approach
35. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Gatekeeping
Social interaction
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Coalition
36. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Intragenerational mobility
Growth rate
Surveillance function
Iron law of oligarchy
37. The incidence of death in a given population.
Death rate
Mortality rate
Opinion leader
Material culture
38. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Culture
Dramaturgical approach
Professional criminal
39. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Folkways
Anti-Semitism
Education
Income
40. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Social control
Reference group
Class system
Formal social control
41. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Pluralism
Multinational corporations
Downsizing
Postindustrial city
42. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Open system
Theory
Downsizing
Social movements
43. 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.
Anomie theory of deviance
Peter principle
Creationism
Looking-glass self
44. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Argot
Serial monogamy
Ageism
Instrumentality
45. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Prestige
Wealth
Class system
Experiment
46. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Diffusion
Dyad
Opinion leader
Power
47. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Dysfunction
Community
Intergenerational mobility
Role conflict
48. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Causal logic
Patrilineal descent
Tracking
49. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Self
Wealth
Class
Resource mobilization
50. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Folkways
Castes
Cognitive theory of development
Infant mortality rate