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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. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Serial monogamy
Alienation
Correlation
Natural science
2. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Negotiated order
Value neutrality
Feminist perspective
Anticipatory socialization
3. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Contact hypothesis
Dependent variable
Glass ceiling
Credentialism
4. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Face-work
Anti-Semitism
Bureaucracy
Macrosociology
5. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Patriarchy
Charismatic authority
McDonaldization
Religion
6. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Role exit
Social role
Subculture
Relative deprivation
7. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Monogamy
Colonialism
Sociology
8. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Role conflict
Mass media
Iron law of oligarchy
Status group
9. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Significant others
Group
Reference group
10. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Questionnaire
Relative deprivation
Slavery
11. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Resource mobilization
Absolute poverty
Gerontology
Telecommuters
12. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Class system
Observation
Research design
Random sample
13. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Folkways
Questionnaire
Homophobia
Segregation
14. 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
Crime
Dyad
Downsizing
15. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Religious experience
Proletariat
Code of ethics
Established sect
16. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Income
Single-parent families
Nisei
Surveillance function
17. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Bourgeoisie
Castes
Life expectancy
18. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Wealth
Social control
Demography
19. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
New social movements
Religious beliefs
Secularization
Survey
20. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Technology
McDonaldization
Religious rituals
Formal social control
21. According to
Affirmative action
Equilibrium model
Religion
Observation
22. The scientific study of population.
Culture lag
Monogamy
Secondary group
Demography
23. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Social role
Class consciousness
Culture
Role strain
24. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Life chances
Politics
Elite model
Significant others
25. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Anticipatory socialization
Deindustrialization
Political system
Role conflict
26. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Invention
Bilingualism
Total institutions
Agrarian society
27. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Significant others
Manifest functions
Postmodern society
Relative deprivation
28. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Cultural relativism
Polygamy
Coalition
Ideal type
29. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Variable
Innovation
Society
Qualitative research
30. 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.
Xenocentrism
Variable
Anomie theory of deviance
Horizontal mobility
31. 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.
Scientific method
Curanderismo
Religious experience
Discovery
32. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Scientific management approach
Operational definition
Ageism
E-commerce
33. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Cultural universals
Polygamy
Correlation
Single-parent families
34. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Opinion leader
Legal-rational authority
Trained incapacity
Postindustrial city
35. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Class system
Protestant ethic
Pluralist model
Sociology
36. Another name for labeling theory.
Societal-reaction approach
Invention
Death rate
Secondary analysis
37. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
In-group
Pluralism
Routine activities theory
38. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Surveillance function
Mass media
Dramaturgical approach
Negotiated order
39. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Environmental justice
Group
Innovation
Generalized others
40. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Professional criminal
Qualitative research
Fertility
Influence
41. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Nonverbal communication
Diffusion
Quantitative research
Pluralist model
42. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Horizontal mobility
Downsizing
Coalition
Slavery
43. 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.
Politics
Group
Instrumentality
Horizontal mobility
44. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Environmental justice
Informal norms
Ethnic group
Gerontology
45. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Environmental justice
Stigma
Absolute poverty
Religious experience
46. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Role taking
Anomie
Achieved status
Objective method
47. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Obedience
Sociocultural evolution
Social structure
Culture
48. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Social epidemiology
Esteem
Deindustrialization
Role exit
49. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Victimless crimes
Contact hypothesis
Gender roles
50. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Creationism
Face-work
Research design
Apartheid