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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. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Minority group
Formal norms
Secondary analysis
Black power
2. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Agrarian society
Symbols
Culture shock
Vested interests
3. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Protestant ethic
Legal-rational authority
Secularization
Cognitive theory of development
4. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Folkways
Castes
Horticultural societies
Ecclesia
5. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Validity
Dominant ideology
Single-parent families
Victimization surveys
6. 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.
Resocialization
Independent variable
Socialism
Capitalism
7. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Questionnaire
Segregation
Sanctions
False consciousness
8. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Sect
Instrumentality
Social inequality
Legal-rational authority
9. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Victimization surveys
Industrial society
Professional criminal
10. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Urban ecology
Anomie theory of deviance
Role exit
Master status
11. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Equilibrium model
Latent functions
Suburb
Culture
12. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Anomie
Death rate
Genocide
Intragenerational mobility
13. The scientific study of population.
Values
Demography
Second shift
Sexual harassment
14. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Social network
World systems analysis
Differential association
Dependent variable
15. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Industrial society
Sexism
Assimilation
Professional criminal
16. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Vested interests
Political socialization
Stereotypes
Demography
17. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Sociobiology
Sample
Voluntary associations
Achieved status
18. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Preindustrial city
Subculture
Significant others
Life expectancy
19. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Socialization
Social movements
Innovation
Discovery
20. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Social constructionist perspective
Exploitation theory
Legal-rational authority
Experiment
21. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Patrilineal descent
Colonialism
Observation
Diffusion
22. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Kinship
Evolutionary theory
Activity theory
23. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Life expectancy
Homophobia
Content analysis
Anomie
24. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Intergenerational mobility
Slavery
Traditional authority
Influence
25. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Glass ceiling
Cohabitation
Genocide
Social network
26. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Genocide
Social role
Legal-rational authority
27. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Postmodern society
Folkways
Ethnocentrism
Intragenerational mobility
28. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Prejudice
Variable
Urbanism
Class
29. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Argot
Horizontal mobility
Stigma
Social control
30. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Political system
Homophobia
Social change
Primary group
31. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
New social movements
Pluralism
Negotiation
Cultural relativism
32. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Surveillance function
Culture lag
Class system
Ascribed status
33. 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.
Validity
Victimless crimes
McDonaldization
Institutional discrimination
34. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Sociobiology
Industrial city
Exogamy
Polygamy
35. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Objective method
Manifest functions
Functionalist perspective
Religious beliefs
36. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Verstehen
Sociobiology
Xenocentrism
Serial monogamy
37. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Community
Secondary group
Out-group
Sacred
38. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Social science
Experiment
Personality
Esteem
39. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Anomie
Life chances
Apartheid
Religious rituals
40. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Hypothesis
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Vital statistics
Religious beliefs
41. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Coalition
Opinion leader
Ecclesia
Tracking
42. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Subculture
Material culture
Legal-rational authority
Labor unions
43. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Sect
Religious beliefs
Role exit
Teacher-expectancy effect
44. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Anticipatory socialization
Megalopolis
Opinion leader
Polygyny
45. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Scientific method
Feminist perspective
Dyad
Postindustrial city
46. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
In-group
Religious experience
Vested interests
Anti-Semitism
47. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Gender roles
Ethnocentrism
Sick role
Social inequality
48. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Ideal type
Variable
Endogamy
Role exit
49. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Institutional discrimination
Victimization surveys
Curanderismo
Defended neighborhood
50. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Castes
Nuclear family
Human ecology
Force