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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Single-parent families
Urbanism
Urban ecology
Nonmaterial culture
2. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Informal norms
Monogamy
Primary group
Sick role
3. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Code of ethics
Sociocultural evolution
Charismatic authority
Stratification
4. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Force
Norms
Second shift
5. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Independent variable
Ethnic group
Conflict perspective
Dependency theory
6. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Relative deprivation
Social interaction
Polygamy
Qualitative research
7. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Goal displacement
Informal social control
Impression management
Diffusion
8. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Curanderismo
Observation
Macrosociology
Sample
9. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Sexual harassment
Colonialism
Social role
Traditional authority
10. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Control group
Tracking
Obedience
Culture shock
11. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Activity theory
Stereotypes
Exogamy
Crime
12. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Monogamy
Organized crime
Correspondence principle
13. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Primary group
Environmental justice
Horizontal mobility
Dysfunction
14. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Sexual harassment
Neocolonialism
Proletariat
Fertility
15. The state of being related to others.
Prestige
Classical theory
Kinship
Mores
16. 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.
Culture
Hawthorne effect
Vested interests
Religion
17. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Stratification
Social structure
Apartheid
Colonialism
18. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Qualitative research
Research design
Trained incapacity
Endogamy
19. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Pluralism
Equilibrium model
Teacher-expectancy effect
Neocolonialism
20. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Demography
Traditional authority
Feminist perspective
Human ecology
21. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Postindustrial city
Negotiated order
Polyandry
Black power
22. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Social institutions
Survey
Politics
Sociology
23. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Power
Negotiation
Anomie theory of deviance
Causal logic
24. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Formal social control
Ethnography
Prejudice
Opinion leader
25. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Argot
Macrosociology
Conformity
Single-parent families
26. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ageism
Social interaction
Racism
Ethnocentrism
27. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Control theory
Degradation ceremony
Narcotizing dysfunction
Relative poverty
28. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Social inequality
Vested interests
Bureaucracy
Dominant ideology
29. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Control variable
Status group
Sexual harassment
Power
30. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Dependency theory
Wealth
Cultural relativism
Role taking
31. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Culture shock
Creationism
Gerontology
McDonaldization
32. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Neocolonialism
Narcotizing dysfunction
Prevalence
Science
33. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Preindustrial city
Ideal type
Creationism
Code of ethics
34. 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.
Gesellschaft
Mores
Society
Group
35. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Creationism
Sociology
Master status
Symbols
36. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Hawthorne effect
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Correlation
Human relations approach
37. 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.
Correspondence principle
Globalization
Control variable
Mass media
38. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Surveillance function
Role conflict
Routine activities theory
Crime
39. 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.
Sect
Opinion leader
Mass media
In-group
40. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Socialism
Political socialization
Anomie theory of deviance
41. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Role exit
Self
Death rate
42. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Profane
Differential association
Traditional authority
Scientific management approach
43. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
World systems analysis
Experiment
Code of ethics
Ideal type
44. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Protestant ethic
Feminist perspective
Survey
Political socialization
45. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Hidden curriculum
Social control
Law
Differential association
46. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Role conflict
Personality
New social movements
Classical theory
47. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Community
Negotiation
Political system
Resource mobilization
48. 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.
Achieved status
Profane
Racism
Creationism
49. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Ascribed status
Voluntary associations
Gemeinschaft
50. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Bilingualism
Segregation
Manifest functions
Alienation