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CLEP Sociology
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1. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Industrial society
Dependent variable
Health
Causal logic
2. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Socialism
Dependency theory
Racism
Single-parent families
3. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Minority group
Professional criminal
Racism
World systems analysis
4. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Sexual harassment
Xenocentrism
Sociological imagination
Negotiation
5. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Black power
Crime
Secondary group
McDonaldization
6. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Morbidity rates
Laissez-faire
Infant mortality rate
Telecommuters
7. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Deindustrialization
Industrial city
Issei
Informal economy
8. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Bourgeoisie
Objective method
Role strain
Variable
9. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Closed system
Adoption
Capitalism
Patrilineal descent
10. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Black power
Rites of passage
Reference group
Monogamy
11. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Hypothesis
Preindustrial city
Apartheid
Deviance
12. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Cult
Castes
Horticultural societies
Nonmaterial culture
13. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Experiment
Subculture
Multinational corporations
Macrosociology
14. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Incidence
Professional criminal
Class system
Sanctions
15. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Curanderismo
Social change
Face-work
Scientific management approach
16. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Correspondence principle
Colonialism
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Hidden curriculum
17. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Minority group
Demography
Class system
18. The state of being related to others.
Kinship
Religious beliefs
Community
Legal-rational authority
19. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Bourgeoisie
Role exit
Established sect
Traditional authority
20. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Religious beliefs
Infant mortality rate
Correlation
Authority
21. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Iron law of oligarchy
Routine activities theory
E-commerce
Matrilineal descent
22. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Postmodern society
Capitalism
Egalitarian family
Exogamy
23. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Conflict perspective
Hunting-and-gathering society
Esteem
Experimental group
24. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Urban ecology
Verstehen
Normal accidents
25. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Charismatic authority
Dependent variable
Bilingualism
Domestic partnership
26. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Power
Telecommuters
Social inequality
Pluralism
27. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Human ecology
Group
Protestant ethic
Second shift
28. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Ideal type
Society
Group
Dramaturgical approach
29. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Mass media
Face-work
Political system
Control variable
30. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Kinship
Census
Intragenerational mobility
Birthrate
31. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Resocialization
Formal norms
Exogamy
Personality
32. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Hidden curriculum
Labor unions
Wealth
Deindustrialization
33. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Intergenerational mobility
Traditional authority
Counterculture
34. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Cultural relativism
Growth rate
Gesellschaft
Theory
35. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Sociocultural evolution
Traditional authority
Incidence
Status
36. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Sociobiology
Social institutions
Force
Bilingualism
37. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Kinship
Prestige
Community
38. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Single-parent families
Polygyny
Control theory
World systems analysis
39. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Relative deprivation
Laissez-faire
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Validity
40. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Machismo
Ethnography
Vested interests
Total fertility rate (TFR)
41. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Machismo
Activity theory
Iron law of oligarchy
Urbanism
42. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Machismo
Social network
Validity
Globalization
43. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
Demography
Polygyny
Issei
44. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Verstehen
Role conflict
Mass media
Conformity
45. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Power
Language
Charismatic authority
Societal-reaction approach
46. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Surveillance function
Informal economy
Macrosociology
Racism
47. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Political system
Ethnocentrism
Slavery
Dependency theory
48. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Informal norms
Stereotypes
Role strain
49. The study of various aspects of human society.
Formal norms
Variable
Social science
Scientific method
50. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Resource mobilization
Significant others
Interview
Culture