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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. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Morbidity rates
Sexism
Conformity
Counterculture
2. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Disengagement theory
Stigma
Mores
3. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Natural science
Verstehen
Gerontology
4. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Incidence
Operational definition
Expressiveness
Discovery
5. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Professional criminal
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Postmodern society
Control theory
6. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Extended family
Morbidity rates
Glass ceiling
Control variable
7. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Status
Master status
Monopoly
Closed system
8. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Patriarchy
Cultural relativism
Racism
Classical theory
9. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Health
Professional criminal
Causal logic
Sociological imagination
10. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
Sample
Urban ecology
Slavery
11. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Small group
Horticultural societies
Familism
Out-group
12. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Law
Differential association
Denomination
Nonmaterial culture
13. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Language
Polyandry
Social interaction
Matriarchy
14. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Gerontology
White-collar crime
Subculture
Dependent variable
15. 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.
Power elite
Morbidity rates
Interview
Health
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.
Nonmaterial culture
Vested interests
Societal-reaction approach
Dysfunction
17. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Hypothesis
Activity theory
Subculture
Patrilineal descent
18. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Observation
Secondary analysis
Legal-rational authority
Negotiated order
19. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Looking-glass self
Industrial city
Political system
Total fertility rate (TFR)
20. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Prejudice
Matrilineal descent
Sociology
Relative deprivation
21. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Deindustrialization
Environmental justice
Conflict perspective
New social movements
22. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Postindustrial society
Issei
Role taking
Nonmaterial culture
23. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Intragenerational mobility
Contact hypothesis
Anti-Semitism
Esteem
24. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Informal social control
Relative deprivation
Class consciousness
Fertility
25. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Secularization
Globalization
Relative poverty
Normal accidents
26. Another name for labeling theory.
Control group
Societal-reaction approach
Patriarchy
Scientific method
27. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Cult
Education
Megalopolis
Reliability
28. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Egalitarian family
Activity theory
Curanderismo
Exploitation theory
29. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Racial group
Denomination
Labor unions
Defended neighborhood
30. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Defended neighborhood
Multinational corporations
Variable
Culture shock
31. 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.
Gesellschaft
Liberation theology
Dominant ideology
Curanderismo
32. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Natural science
Cultural relativism
Observation
Castes
33. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Egalitarian family
Reference group
Suburb
Tracking
34. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Segregation
Gesellschaft
Growth rate
Resource mobilization
35. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Conformity
Extended family
Socialization
36. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Society
Cultural universals
Social network
Differential association
37. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Human ecology
Downsizing
Social role
Culture shock
38. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Quantitative research
Economic system
Surveillance function
Polyandry
39. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Closed system
Profane
Cohabitation
40. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Interview
Anomie theory of deviance
Socialization
Experiment
41. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
McDonaldization
Ascribed status
Human relations approach
Dramaturgical approach
42. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Labeling theory
Dominant ideology
False consciousness
Economic system
43. 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
Gesellschaft
Face-work
Primary group
44. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Vested interests
Social role
Liberation theology
Control variable
45. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Culture lag
Instrumentality
Macrosociology
Nonmaterial culture
46. A three-member group.
Cognitive theory of development
Triad
Religious rituals
Traditional authority
47. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Bureaucracy
Material culture
Status group
Correlation
48. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Material culture
Intragenerational mobility
Neocolonialism
Informal norms
49. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Health
Hunting-and-gathering society
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Economic system
50. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Face-work
Curanderismo
Status
Prestige