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CLEP Sociology
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1. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Theory
Functionalist perspective
Issei
Bilateral descent
2. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Iron law of oligarchy
Law
Monopoly
Patrilineal descent
3. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Class
Gesellschaft
Minority group
Conflict perspective
4. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Small group
Death rate
Evolutionary theory
Anomie theory of deviance
5. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Role taking
Luddites
Correlation
6. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Segregation
Invention
Adoption
Differential association
7. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
False consciousness
Amalgamation
Victimization surveys
Proletariat
8. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Stratification
Bureaucratization
Feminist perspective
Unilinear evolutionary theory
9. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Bilingualism
Prevalence
Colonialism
Total institutions
10. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Power elite
Organized crime
Anticipatory socialization
Operational definition
11. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Denomination
Culture
Creationism
Prestige
12. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Sanctions
Religious experience
Single-parent families
Horticultural societies
13. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
False consciousness
Folkways
Absolute poverty
Model or ideal minority
14. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Opinion leader
Survey
Census
Ageism
15. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Conformity
False consciousness
Incest taboo
Dramaturgical approach
16. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Deindustrialization
Cohabitation
Polyandry
17. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Cognitive theory of development
Small group
Census
Relative poverty
18. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Endogamy
Professional criminal
Political socialization
Resource mobilization
19. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Resocialization
McDonaldization
Incidence
Machismo
20. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Verstehen
Degradation ceremony
Postindustrial society
Stratification
21. 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
Subculture
Death rate
Socialism
22. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Latent functions
Subculture
Hawthorne effect
Cognitive theory of development
23. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Observation
Socialization
Gemeinschaft
24. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Status
Control variable
New social movements
Tracking
25. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Personality
Obedience
Stigma
Monopoly
26. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.
Religion
Independent variable
Society
Equilibrium model
27. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Serial monogamy
Issei
Out-group
Wealth
28. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Ideal type
Small group
Social interaction
29. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Mortality rate
Vital statistics
Domestic partnership
Experiment
30. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Monopoly
Voluntary associations
Patriarchy
Underclass
31. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Research design
Sect
Norms
Experiment
32. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Interactionist perspective
Sacred
Growth rate
Technology
33. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Religious experience
Assimilation
Social inequality
Extended family
34. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Suburb
Intergenerational mobility
Denomination
Megalopolis
35. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Second shift
Manifest functions
Community
Ethnic group
36. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Political socialization
Gatekeeping
Defended neighborhood
Health
37. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Content analysis
Incest taboo
Generalized others
Class
38. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Absolute poverty
Microsociology
Sexism
Ethnocentrism
39. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Horizontal mobility
Role conflict
Demographic transition
Law
40. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Established sect
Morbidity rates
Deviance
Negotiated order
41. 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.
Bourgeoisie
Human relations approach
Prestige
Secondary analysis
42. Salaries and wages.
Income
Politics
Religious rituals
Culture
43. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Rites of passage
Hypothesis
Relative poverty
Qualitative research
44. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Instrumentality
Apartheid
Extended family
Face-work
45. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Gesellschaft
Single-parent families
Iron law of oligarchy
Affirmative action
46. 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 system
Hunting-and-gathering society
Affirmative action
Liberation theology
47. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Secondary analysis
Control theory
Matriarchy
Informal economy
48. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.
Iron law of oligarchy
Xenocentrism
Correspondence principle
Postindustrial society
49. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Social institutions
Generalized others
Growth rate
Teacher-expectancy effect
50. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Machismo
Dysfunction
Social network
Ethnography