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CLEP Sociology
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1. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sociology
Growth rate
Sample
Anti-Semitism
2. 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.
Matrilineal descent
Population pyramid
Objective method
Suburb
3. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Natural science
E-commerce
New urban sociology
McDonaldization
4. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Sociology
Exploitation theory
Societal-reaction approach
Human ecology
5. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Victimization surveys
Political system
Religious beliefs
Stratification
6. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Power elite
Dysfunction
Resocialization
Routine activities theory
7. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Pluralist model
Amalgamation
Bureaucracy
Sanctions
8. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Mores
Opinion leader
Invention
Alienation
9. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Secondary analysis
Code of ethics
Subculture
Latent functions
10. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Class consciousness
Degradation ceremony
Operational definition
Total fertility rate (TFR)
11. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Anomie
Cultural relativism
Incest taboo
Rites of passage
12. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Machismo
Demography
Group
Horticultural societies
13. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.
Anomie theory of deviance
Social epidemiology
Value neutrality
Random sample
14. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Science
Cultural universals
Ethnography
Socialization
15. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Resource mobilization
Activity theory
Control group
Underclass
16. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Modernization
Protestant ethic
Control group
Urban ecology
17. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Social inequality
Ideal type
Nisei
Cultural universals
18. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Telecommuters
Incidence
Social constructionist perspective
Monopoly
19. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Value neutrality
Patriarchy
Manifest functions
Control group
20. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Coalition
Esteem
Underclass
Proletariat
21. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Opinion leader
Sexual harassment
Social interaction
Socialization
22. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Random sample
Influence
Contact hypothesis
Denomination
23. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Anomie theory of deviance
Small group
E-commerce
Code of ethics
24. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Polygamy
Instrumentality
Polygyny
Birthrate
25. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Kinship
Slavery
Extended family
26. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Pluralism
Ecclesia
Disengagement theory
Colonialism
27. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Closed system
Looking-glass self
Deviance
Exploitation theory
28. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Interview
Matrilineal descent
Single-parent families
Informal economy
29. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Adoption
Demographic transition
Suburb
Class consciousness
30. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Ethnocentrism
Contact hypothesis
Anomie
Intragenerational mobility
31. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Social epidemiology
Industrial city
Objective method
Sociology
32. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Birthrate
Prestige
Significant others
E-commerce
33. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Social control
Ethnic group
Narcotizing dysfunction
Concentric-zone theory
34. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Amalgamation
Cultural transmission
Esteem
Proletariat
35. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Alienation
Urbanism
Modernization
Social role
36. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Assimilation
Kinship
Segregation
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
37. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Random sample
Single-parent families
Polyandry
Model or ideal minority
38. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Culture lag
Religious experience
Value neutrality
Apartheid
39. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Sample
Gender roles
Gesellschaft
40. 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.
Latent functions
Polygamy
Creationism
Infant mortality rate
41. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Bureaucracy
Endogamy
Defended neighborhood
Sociological imagination
42. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Income
Expressiveness
Voluntary associations
Operational definition
43. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Nuclear family
Negotiated order
Social science
Sociocultural evolution
44. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Ethnography
Functionalist perspective
Impression management
Deviance
45. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Iron law of oligarchy
Primary group
Opinion leader
Culture lag
46. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Population pyramid
Formal norms
Dysfunction
47. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Horizontal mobility
Crime
Social interaction
Hunting-and-gathering society
48. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Social interaction
Social mobility
Assimilation
Sexual harassment
49. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Social inequality
Castes
Validity
Society
50. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Politics
Reference group
Manifest functions
Industrial society