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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Postindustrial society
Creationism
Variable
Pluralist model
2. According to
Social structure
Anomie
Established sect
Religion
3. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Science
Mores
Social constructionist perspective
4. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Affirmative action
Class
Prejudice
Postindustrial city
5. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Role conflict
Death rate
Operational definition
Contact hypothesis
6. 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.
Affirmative action
Role exit
Peter principle
Capitalism
7. 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.
Horticultural societies
Total institutions
Rites of passage
Counterculture
8. 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.
Bilateral descent
Minority group
Extended family
Values
9. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Downsizing
Nisei
Rites of passage
Prestige
10. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Qualitative research
Institutional discrimination
Deindustrialization
Culture shock
11. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Interview
Terrorism
Victimization surveys
New urban sociology
12. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Issei
Social mobility
Power
Unilinear evolutionary theory
13. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Institutional discrimination
Goal displacement
Wealth
Morbidity rates
14. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Minority group
Social control
Cultural universals
15. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Education
Nisei
Extended family
Sect
16. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Iron law of oligarchy
Questionnaire
Validity
Matrilineal descent
17. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Postmodern society
Luddites
Intergenerational mobility
Experimental group
18. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Religious rituals
Experiment
Scientific method
Horticultural societies
19. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
Expressiveness
Latent functions
Underclass
20. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Counterculture
Routine activities theory
Human relations approach
21. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Creationism
Liberation theology
Role taking
Bourgeoisie
22. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Interactionist perspective
Correlation
Homophobia
Multilinear evolutionary theory
23. Salaries and wages.
Segregation
Role exit
Quantitative research
Income
24. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Ageism
Pluralist model
Environmental justice
Globalization
25. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Cohabitation
Formal norms
Gerontology
Gender roles
26. 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.
Power elite
Relative deprivation
Sexual harassment
Ethnic group
27. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Black power
Informal social control
Stigma
Population pyramid
28. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Life expectancy
Validity
Folkways
29. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Egalitarian family
Social movements
Dependent variable
Endogamy
30. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Theory
Achieved status
New social movements
Dominant ideology
31. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Social inequality
Class
Open system
Hypothesis
32. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Personality
Religion
Defended neighborhood
33. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Scientific method
Variable
Causal logic
Colonialism
34. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Segregation
Census
Social constructionist perspective
35. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Open system
Ascribed status
Polygamy
Matrilineal descent
36. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Telecommuters
Family
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Intergenerational mobility
37. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Cohabitation
Qualitative research
Relative deprivation
Hidden curriculum
38. 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.
Class
Total institutions
Liberation theology
Environmental justice
39. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Urban ecology
Nuclear family
Multiple-nuclei theory
Industrial city
40. 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.
Racism
Sect
Luddites
Significant others
41. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Language
Bureaucratization
Pluralist model
Ethnocentrism
42. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Population pyramid
Hunting-and-gathering society
Socialism
Role conflict
43. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Bilateral descent
Modernization
Glass ceiling
Socialism
44. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
McDonaldization
Narcotizing dysfunction
Profane
Resource mobilization
45. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Ethnocentrism
Prejudice
Domestic partnership
Manifest functions
46. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Labor unions
Luddites
Suburb
Secondary analysis
47. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Postindustrial society
Modernization theory
Qualitative research
Secondary analysis
48. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Sociology
Luddites
Religious beliefs
Power
49. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Wealth
Human relations approach
Language
50. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Language
Self
Modernization
Defended neighborhood