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CLEP Sociology
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1. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Income
Elite model
Political system
2. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Luddites
Argot
Symbols
3. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Suburb
Negotiated order
Racial group
4. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Familism
Globalization
Invention
Dysfunction
5. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Xenocentrism
Formal norms
Sect
6. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Organized crime
Nuclear family
Incidence
Sexual harassment
7. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Secularization
Vertical mobility
Human ecology
Nuclear family
8. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Opinion leader
Minority group
Postindustrial society
Sociology
9. The study of various aspects of human society.
Census
Sexism
Curanderismo
Social science
10. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Pluralism
Deviance
Fertility
Formal organization
11. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Sociocultural evolution
Megalopolis
Bureaucratization
Mass media
12. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Control variable
Stigma
Master status
Xenocentrism
13. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Dependency theory
Single-parent families
Social structure
Community
14. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Gemeinschaft
Alienation
Birthrate
Religious beliefs
15. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Environmental justice
Experiment
Dependency theory
Social constructionist perspective
16. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Correlation
Urban ecology
White-collar crime
Peter principle
17. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Established sect
Sociological imagination
Normal accidents
Rites of passage
18. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Survey
Demographic transition
Narcotizing dysfunction
Nisei
19. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Ethnic group
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Status group
Authority
20. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Victimless crimes
Stratification
Opinion leader
Anomie theory of deviance
21. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Religious experience
Single-parent families
Feminist perspective
Polygamy
22. Salaries and wages.
Community
Income
Anomie
Horizontal mobility
23. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Prevalence
Nuclear family
Credentialism
Income
24. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Adoption
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Intragenerational mobility
Role taking
25. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Diffusion
Creationism
Resocialization
Ecclesia
26. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Peter principle
Sample
Verstehen
Classical theory
27. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Socialization
Concentric-zone theory
Denomination
28. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Technology
Symbols
Deviance
Out-group
29. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Open system
Discovery
Degradation ceremony
Amalgamation
30. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Mass media
Survey
Concentric-zone theory
Looking-glass self
31. 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.
Role strain
Serial monogamy
Gesellschaft
Relative poverty
32. 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.
Minority group
Degradation ceremony
Trained incapacity
Counterculture
33. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Defended neighborhood
Gatekeeping
Random sample
34. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Face-work
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Power
Bilingualism
35. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Argot
Extended family
Environmental justice
Objective method
36. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Obedience
Underclass
Surveillance function
37. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Peter principle
Class consciousness
Bilingualism
38. 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.
Microsociology
Narcotizing dysfunction
Dominant ideology
Capitalism
39. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Single-parent families
Absolute poverty
Amalgamation
Legal-rational authority
40. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Resocialization
Religious experience
Luddites
Protestant ethic
41. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Pluralist model
Ageism
Force
Demography
42. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Labor unions
Force
Values
Postmodern society
43. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Organized crime
Endogamy
Normal accidents
Death rate
44. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Agrarian society
Dominant ideology
Religion
Role taking
45. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Control theory
Activity theory
Dependent variable
Social network
46. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Death rate
Ethnography
Religious experience
47. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Politics
Prestige
Horizontal mobility
Feminist perspective
48. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Invention
Innovation
Xenocentrism
Politics
49. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Class consciousness
Routine activities theory
Socialism
Anomie
50. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Slavery
Political socialization
Material culture
Quantitative research