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CLEP Sociology
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1. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Surveillance function
Cognitive theory of development
Microsociology
Interactionist perspective
2. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Castes
Content analysis
Informal economy
Social structure
3. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Sociological imagination
Gerontology
Secularization
Science
4. 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.
Cult
Social structure
Formal social control
Society
5. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Iron law of oligarchy
Polyandry
Surveillance function
Observation
6. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Formal social control
Correlation
Hypothesis
Assimilation
7. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Social movements
Control group
Issei
Force
8. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Legal-rational authority
Racial group
Industrial city
9. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Tracking
E-commerce
Population pyramid
Megalopolis
10. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Expressiveness
Culture lag
Group
Resocialization
11. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Adoption
Amalgamation
Microsociology
Language
12. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Anticipatory socialization
Established sect
Secondary group
Amalgamation
13. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Subculture
Total institutions
Horticultural societies
Counterculture
14. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Equilibrium model
Disengagement theory
Racial group
Model or ideal minority
15. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Environmental justice
Formal organization
Agrarian society
Rites of passage
16. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Growth rate
Sacred
Qualitative research
Modernization theory
17. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Norms
Power elite
Matrilineal descent
Stereotypes
18. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Serial monogamy
Growth rate
Polygamy
Informal social control
19. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Polygamy
Segregation
Resource mobilization
20. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Sanctions
Cult
Class system
21. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Social epidemiology
Proletariat
Organized crime
Classical theory
22. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Terrorism
Monopoly
Postmodern society
Underclass
23. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.
Social structure
Operational definition
Gesellschaft
Anomie theory of deviance
24. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Legal-rational authority
Society
Postindustrial society
Gemeinschaft
25. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Obedience
Gemeinschaft
Religious beliefs
Urban ecology
26. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Master status
Functionalist perspective
Social inequality
Preindustrial city
27. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Serial monogamy
Trained incapacity
Postindustrial society
Polygyny
28. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Endogamy
Sanctions
Growth rate
Charismatic authority
29. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Death rate
Industrial society
Stratification
Social control
30. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Technology
Authority
Innovation
Class
31. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Religion
Disengagement theory
Capitalism
Degradation ceremony
32. A two-member group.
Subculture
Theory
Dyad
Fertility
33. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Formal organization
Power elite
Laissez-faire
Primary group
34. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Role exit
Ethnic group
Anomie theory of deviance
Mores
35. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Traditional authority
Defended neighborhood
Hypothesis
Scientific method
36. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
False consciousness
Impression management
Bureaucracy
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
37. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Face-work
Self
Ageism
Closed system
38. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Elite model
Social constructionist perspective
Ecclesia
Birthrate
39. Salaries and wages.
Income
Creationism
Cultural universals
Ethnography
40. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Nonmaterial culture
Ethnocentrism
Objective method
Norms
41. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Natural science
Surveillance function
Postmodern society
Polygyny
42. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
White-collar crime
Status group
Validity
Material culture
43. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Technology
Political socialization
Dependency theory
Conflict perspective
44. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Underclass
Social structure
Mores
Secondary group
45. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Bureaucracy
Telecommuters
Out-group
Politics
46. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Microsociology
Traditional authority
Scientific management approach
47. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Monopoly
Telecommuters
Socialism
Patrilineal descent
48. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
In-group
Horizontal mobility
Census
Apartheid
49. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Elite model
Stigma
Social change
Sexual harassment
50. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Fertility
Social constructionist perspective
Social institutions
Second shift