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CLEP Sociology
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1. 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.
Functionalist perspective
Education
Organized crime
Informal economy
2. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Sacred
Correspondence principle
Elite model
Exploitation theory
3. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Discrimination
Modernization theory
Deviance
Assimilation
4. 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
Demographic transition
Power elite
Culture shock
5. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Death rate
Classical theory
Authority
Polyandry
6. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Argot
Political socialization
Religion
Discrimination
7. 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.
Political socialization
Family
Negotiated order
Culture lag
8. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Human ecology
Classical theory
Resource mobilization
Language
9. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Multinational corporations
Proletariat
Opinion leader
Verstehen
10. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Suburb
Class system
Domestic partnership
Ethnography
11. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Prestige
Disengagement theory
Creationism
Monogamy
12. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Diffusion
Incest taboo
Model or ideal minority
Patriarchy
13. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Independent variable
Genocide
Class system
Curanderismo
14. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Quantitative research
Language
Validity
Value neutrality
15. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Secondary analysis
Telecommuters
Looking-glass self
Organized crime
16. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Creationism
Mores
Discrimination
Politics
17. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Obedience
Creationism
Operational definition
Population pyramid
18. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Black power
Legal-rational authority
Stigma
Hawthorne effect
19. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Personality
Affirmative action
Qualitative research
Incest taboo
20. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Status
Affirmative action
Terrorism
Role conflict
21. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Patriarchy
Elite model
Life expectancy
Multiple-nuclei theory
22. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Content analysis
Crime
Preindustrial city
23. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Goal displacement
Elite model
Pluralism
Macrosociology
24. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Observation
Cultural relativism
Mass media
Expressiveness
25. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Denomination
Social structure
Dependent variable
Cultural transmission
26. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Creationism
Glass ceiling
Downsizing
Defended neighborhood
27. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Mores
Reference group
Resource mobilization
Labeling theory
28. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Norms
Tracking
Kinship
Status group
29. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Concentric-zone theory
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Bureaucratization
Impression management
30. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Sexism
Language
Argot
Equilibrium model
31. 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.
Cohabitation
Megalopolis
Alienation
Sect
32. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Scientific management approach
Instrumentality
Symbols
Model or ideal minority
33. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Qualitative research
Status
Secularization
New social movements
34. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Control group
Language
Bilateral descent
Terrorism
35. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Politics
Evolutionary theory
Stereotypes
Concentric-zone theory
36. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Relative poverty
Proletariat
Face-work
Sexism
37. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Capitalism
Informal norms
Teacher-expectancy effect
Invention
38. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Degradation ceremony
Sociological imagination
Dominant ideology
Content analysis
39. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Interview
Resocialization
Scientific method
Laissez-faire
40. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Monopoly
Nuclear family
Domestic partnership
Vital statistics
41. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Classical theory
Intragenerational mobility
Obedience
Racial group
42. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Human ecology
Independent variable
Demography
Pluralism
43. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Bureaucratization
Social structure
Social inequality
Narcotizing dysfunction
44. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Class
Social control
Social mobility
Content analysis
45. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Quantitative research
Gerontology
Objective method
Informal economy
46. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Birthrate
Cultural relativism
Social constructionist perspective
Code of ethics
47. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Informal norms
Random sample
Qualitative research
Legal-rational authority
48. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Adoption
Luddites
Prevalence
Content analysis
49. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Ascribed status
Dramaturgical approach
Issei
Postmodern society
50. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Environmental justice
Qualitative research
Second shift
Luddites