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CLEP Sociology
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1. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.
Downsizing
Role taking
Power elite
Invention
2. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Religion
Monopoly
Mass media
Negotiated order
3. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Classical theory
Degradation ceremony
Surveillance function
Reliability
4. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Prevalence
Education
Nonmaterial culture
Socialization
5. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Interview
Law
Megalopolis
Incidence
6. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Voluntary associations
Proletariat
Patrilineal descent
Egalitarian family
7. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Discrimination
Sexism
Social movements
Coalition
8. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Dramaturgical approach
Vertical mobility
Self
Neocolonialism
9. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Resocialization
Gemeinschaft
Amalgamation
Bourgeoisie
10. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Protestant ethic
Dysfunction
Cognitive theory of development
Bureaucratization
11. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Concentric-zone theory
Opinion leader
Modernization
Observation
12. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Terrorism
Power
Power elite
Iron law of oligarchy
13. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Obedience
Adoption
Reliability
Formal social control
14. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Voluntary associations
Hunting-and-gathering society
Elite model
Culture shock
15. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Random sample
Role taking
Pluralist model
Horizontal mobility
16. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Sample
Gerontology
Bureaucracy
Birthrate
17. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Polygyny
Formal organization
Feminist perspective
Cohabitation
18. 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.
Culture
Human ecology
Correspondence principle
In-group
19. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Control variable
Black power
Horticultural societies
Death rate
20. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Prestige
Homophobia
Ascribed status
Credentialism
21. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Mass media
Achieved status
Trained incapacity
Politics
22. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Interview
Mores
Secondary group
Evolutionary theory
23. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Homophobia
Open system
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Ethnography
24. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Prestige
Monogamy
Control group
Disengagement theory
25. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Scientific method
Sociobiology
In-group
Argot
26. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Evolutionary theory
Sociobiology
Counterculture
Polyandry
27. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Ideal type
Qualitative research
New social movements
Kinship
28. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Surveillance function
Genocide
Conflict perspective
Group
29. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Defended neighborhood
Fertility
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Voluntary associations
30. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Globalization
Cultural transmission
Mores
Model or ideal minority
31. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Growth rate
New social movements
Egalitarian family
Income
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
Opinion leader
Hidden curriculum
Slavery
33. 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.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Cult
Sexual harassment
Social control
34. 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.
Credentialism
Technology
White-collar crime
Generalized others
35. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Morbidity rates
Curanderismo
Glass ceiling
Industrial society
36. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Ethnocentrism
Single-parent families
Self
Informal social control
37. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Professional criminal
Rites of passage
Informal social control
Minority group
38. 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
Monogamy
Laissez-faire
Defended neighborhood
39. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Concentric-zone theory
Questionnaire
Symbols
Values
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.
Incidence
Suburb
Protestant ethic
Capitalism
41. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Downsizing
Code of ethics
Dramaturgical approach
Incidence
42. 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.
Nuclear family
Multinational corporations
Gesellschaft
Society
43. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Dependent variable
Informal norms
Protestant ethic
Birthrate
44. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Relative deprivation
Absolute poverty
Established sect
Modernization
45. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Anti-Semitism
Domestic partnership
Vital statistics
Human ecology
46. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Deindustrialization
Relative deprivation
Informal economy
Secondary analysis
47. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Elite model
Microsociology
Social science
Terrorism
48. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Causal logic
Health
Qualitative research
Value neutrality
49. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Patrilineal descent
Denomination
Achieved status
50. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
McDonaldization
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Sexism
Role conflict