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CLEP Sociology
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1. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Organized crime
Rites of passage
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Established sect
2. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Primary group
Class
Familism
Control variable
3. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Qualitative research
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Luddites
Group
4. General practices found in every culture.
Group
Cultural universals
Profane
Voluntary associations
5. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Authority
Societal-reaction approach
Traditional authority
Birthrate
6. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Modernization
Telecommuters
Operational definition
Endogamy
7. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Political socialization
Routine activities theory
Triad
Social role
8. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Verstehen
Cult
Mores
Interactionist perspective
9. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Hawthorne effect
Politics
Polygyny
Multilinear evolutionary theory
10. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Expressiveness
Equilibrium model
Formal norms
11. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Polygyny
Xenocentrism
Total institutions
Informal economy
12. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Opinion leader
Technology
Black power
Ethnocentrism
13. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Secularization
Innovation
Evolutionary theory
Intergenerational mobility
14. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Neocolonialism
Differential association
Power elite
Cultural transmission
15. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Life expectancy
Scientific management approach
Tracking
Microsociology
16. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Victimization surveys
Invention
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Manifest functions
17. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Downsizing
Societal-reaction approach
Bureaucratization
Normal accidents
18. The incidence of death in a given population.
Sample
Hunting-and-gathering society
Mortality rate
Sociobiology
19. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Group
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Culture
Social structure
20. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Modernization
Functionalist perspective
Pluralist model
Culture shock
21. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Genocide
Dominant ideology
Formal organization
Surveillance function
22. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Goal displacement
Infant mortality rate
Control theory
Organized crime
23. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Bilingualism
Globalization
Genocide
Single-parent families
24. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Interactionist perspective
Legal-rational authority
Culture lag
Force
25. A three-member group.
Prestige
Survey
Multiple-nuclei theory
Triad
26. The study of various aspects of human society.
Absolute poverty
Industrial society
Social science
Deviance
27. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Interactionist perspective
Extended family
Morbidity rates
Community
28. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Slavery
Significant others
Urbanism
Anticipatory socialization
29. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Experimental group
False consciousness
Issei
Social movements
30. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Secularization
Modernization
Argot
Demography
31. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Professional criminal
Victimless crimes
Deviance
Matrilineal descent
32. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Intergenerational mobility
Face-work
Sexism
Elite model
33. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
False consciousness
Self
Apartheid
Questionnaire
34. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Alienation
Counterculture
White-collar crime
Multinational corporations
35. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Issei
Equilibrium model
Cohabitation
Coalition
36. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Charismatic authority
Professional criminal
Total fertility rate (TFR)
37. 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.
Sexual harassment
Religious experience
Alienation
Creationism
38. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Pluralism
Norms
Interactionist perspective
Modernization theory
39. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Preindustrial city
Gemeinschaft
Bilingualism
Stigma
40. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Value neutrality
Manifest functions
Reference group
Amalgamation
41. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Content analysis
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Self
Sexism
42. 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.
Authority
Institutional discrimination
Multiple-nuclei theory
Liberation theology
43. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Negotiated order
Class
Denomination
Conflict perspective
44. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Castes
Labeling theory
Macrosociology
Discovery
45. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Dominant ideology
Power
Observation
Globalization
46. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Obedience
Endogamy
False consciousness
Law
47. 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.
Homophobia
Ageism
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Vested interests
48. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Dramaturgical approach
Correlation
Population pyramid
Random sample
49. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Nonmaterial culture
Black power
Role taking
Value neutrality
50. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Ideal type
Elite model
Income