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CLEP Sociology
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1. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Segregation
Quantitative research
Extended family
2. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Open system
Urban ecology
Matriarchy
3. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Out-group
Differential association
New social movements
Segregation
4. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Power
Castes
Teacher-expectancy effect
Dependency theory
5. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Organized crime
Protestant ethic
Gemeinschaft
Slavery
6. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Scientific management approach
Postindustrial city
Vertical mobility
Anti-Semitism
7. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Social inequality
Achieved status
Liberation theology
Disengagement theory
8. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Trained incapacity
Amalgamation
Infant mortality rate
New social movements
9. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Traditional authority
Globalization
Primary group
Observation
10. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Social structure
Group
Anticipatory socialization
Peter principle
11. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Growth rate
Machismo
Class system
Discrimination
12. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Second shift
Cognitive theory of development
Equilibrium model
Macrosociology
13. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Domestic partnership
Operational definition
Kinship
14. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Contact hypothesis
Terrorism
Familism
Negotiation
15. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Family
Cult
Sociobiology
Social science
16. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Minority group
Ethnography
Sociological imagination
Denomination
17. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Environmental justice
Tracking
Kinship
Surveillance function
18. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Class system
Ageism
Hawthorne effect
Income
19. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Denomination
Issei
Capitalism
Multilinear evolutionary theory
20. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Esteem
Mores
Machismo
Concentric-zone theory
21. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Master status
Cognitive theory of development
Dramaturgical approach
Formal social control
22. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Content analysis
Single-parent families
Degradation ceremony
Generalized others
23. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Manifest functions
Genocide
Validity
Class consciousness
24. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Operational definition
Coalition
Sociological imagination
Counterculture
25. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Horizontal mobility
Sociobiology
Underclass
Activity theory
26. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Culture shock
Social structure
Victimization surveys
Differential association
27. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Globalization
Natural science
Dominant ideology
Glass ceiling
28. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Resocialization
Class system
Politics
29. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
E-commerce
Open system
Sociocultural evolution
Wealth
30. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Secondary analysis
Value neutrality
Endogamy
Religious beliefs
31. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Resocialization
Gesellschaft
Influence
Sick role
32. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Professional criminal
Dysfunction
Social inequality
Pluralism
33. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Evolutionary theory
Self
Status group
Patrilineal descent
34. Governmental social control.
Law
Domestic partnership
Victimization surveys
White-collar crime
35. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Legal-rational authority
Family
Amalgamation
Formal social control
36. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Informal social control
Discrimination
Vertical mobility
Stigma
37. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Survey
Bureaucracy
Assimilation
Innovation
38. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Ecclesia
Negotiated order
Death rate
Symbols
39. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Incidence
Expressiveness
Issei
Societal-reaction approach
40. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Experiment
Scientific management approach
Cohabitation
Vital statistics
41. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Matrilineal descent
Black power
Nuclear family
42. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Social inequality
Death rate
Postmodern society
Culture lag
43. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Colonialism
Science
Adoption
44. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Anomie
Census
Death rate
Random sample
45. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
New urban sociology
Kinship
Modernization theory
Political system
46. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Absolute poverty
Death rate
Laissez-faire
47. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Looking-glass self
Anticipatory socialization
Infant mortality rate
Religion
48. 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
Kinship
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Social interaction
49. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Dependent variable
Bureaucratization
Rites of passage
Macrosociology
50. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Sociocultural evolution
Class
Rites of passage
Growth rate