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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. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Mass media
Industrial society
Cultural transmission
Downsizing
2. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Sanctions
Bilateral descent
Preindustrial city
Invention
3. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Dramaturgical approach
Incest taboo
4. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Ideal type
Postindustrial city
Resocialization
Religious rituals
5. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Ethnography
Correlation
Class
Polyandry
6. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Endogamy
Role exit
Role conflict
Birthrate
7. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Secondary analysis
Victimless crimes
Macrosociology
Societal-reaction approach
8. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Causal logic
Discrimination
Peter principle
Prevalence
9. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Primary group
Looking-glass self
Hawthorne effect
10. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Open system
Achieved status
Gemeinschaft
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
11. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Degradation ceremony
Sociological imagination
Racial group
Culture shock
12. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Stratification
Narcotizing dysfunction
Labeling theory
Alienation
13. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Interview
Stigma
Sociocultural evolution
Objective method
14. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Power
Socialization
Experimental group
Discrimination
15. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Social inequality
Ageism
Downsizing
Megalopolis
16. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Disengagement theory
Life expectancy
Control theory
17. 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.
Prejudice
Anomie theory of deviance
Segregation
Exploitation theory
18. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Education
Megalopolis
Sociology
Formal organization
19. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Assimilation
Evolutionary theory
Social constructionist perspective
Group
20. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Anomie theory of deviance
Sacred
Polygyny
Morbidity rates
21. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
In-group
Census
World systems analysis
Law
22. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Questionnaire
Proletariat
Discovery
Values
23. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Population pyramid
Social movements
Control variable
Intergenerational mobility
24. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Slavery
Urbanism
Established sect
Out-group
25. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Role taking
Polygyny
Gemeinschaft
Human ecology
26. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Experiment
Class
Formal organization
Reliability
27. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Instrumentality
Incidence
Assimilation
Iron law of oligarchy
28. 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.
Reliability
Gatekeeping
Environmental justice
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
29. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Model or ideal minority
Urban ecology
Bilateral descent
Opinion leader
30. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Familism
Ecclesia
Assimilation
31. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Research design
Voluntary associations
Formal social control
Status
32. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Tracking
Apartheid
Sexual harassment
Anticipatory socialization
33. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Monogamy
Gemeinschaft
Dyad
Labeling theory
34. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Prejudice
Ascribed status
Infant mortality rate
Formal norms
35. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Diffusion
Anti-Semitism
Routine activities theory
Class system
36. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Dramaturgical approach
Sociobiology
Denomination
Law
37. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Endogamy
Contact hypothesis
Death rate
Crime
38. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Macrosociology
Group
Social inequality
39. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Negotiation
Credentialism
Downsizing
Macrosociology
40. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Ideal type
Modernization
Scientific method
Agrarian society
41. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Proletariat
Industrial city
Life chances
Innovation
42. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Role exit
Diffusion
Role strain
Ethnocentrism
43. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Out-group
Science
Labeling theory
44. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Master status
Absolute poverty
Downsizing
Innovation
45. 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.
Control variable
Random sample
Homophobia
New urban sociology
46. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Human relations approach
Intergenerational mobility
Vested interests
Informal economy
47. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Value neutrality
Theory
Globalization
Expressiveness
48. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Social mobility
Preindustrial city
Gerontology
Social network
49. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Matriarchy
Gesellschaft
Dependent variable
Machismo
50. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Hypothesis
Matrilineal descent
Formal organization
In-group