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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. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Postindustrial city
Microsociology
Symbols
Kinship
2. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Horticultural societies
Status
Laissez-faire
Reliability
3. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Relative deprivation
Interactionist perspective
Pluralism
4. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Culture shock
Urbanism
Formal norms
Ecclesia
5. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Familism
Sanctions
Qualitative research
Globalization
6. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Pluralism
Suburb
Minority group
Egalitarian family
7. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Sociology
White-collar crime
Dramaturgical approach
Community
8. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Religious beliefs
Ethnography
Generalized others
Coalition
9. The study of various aspects of human society.
Social science
Birthrate
Esteem
Questionnaire
10. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.
Manifest functions
Pluralism
Exogamy
Language
11. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Small group
Matriarchy
Looking-glass self
Obedience
12. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Dependent variable
Looking-glass self
Status group
Formal norms
13. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Religion
Status
Political socialization
Objective method
14. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Experiment
Relative deprivation
Suburb
Role exit
15. 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.
Verstehen
New urban sociology
Triad
Urbanism
16. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Incest taboo
Expressiveness
Liberation theology
Model or ideal minority
17. 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.
Resocialization
Secondary group
Power elite
Dysfunction
18. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Human relations approach
Black power
Vital statistics
Familism
19. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Esteem
Ageism
Class system
Exogamy
20. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Morbidity rates
Subculture
Peter principle
Social change
21. 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.
Sect
Social role
Religious experience
Political system
22. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Urban ecology
Multinational corporations
Value neutrality
Degradation ceremony
23. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Negotiated order
Slavery
Luddites
24. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Master status
Profane
Social institutions
Kinship
25. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Multinational corporations
Life chances
Variable
Innovation
26. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Demographic transition
Matrilineal descent
Role strain
Dyad
27. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Societal-reaction approach
Technology
Teacher-expectancy effect
Incest taboo
28. According to
Validity
Religion
Vital statistics
Symbols
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.
Code of ethics
Manifest functions
Cohabitation
False consciousness
30. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Correlation
Polygyny
Genocide
Urban ecology
31. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Morbidity rates
Economic system
Open system
Independent variable
32. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Hawthorne effect
Stereotypes
Correlation
Incidence
33. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Institutional discrimination
Coalition
Religious rituals
Conformity
34. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Fertility
Quantitative research
Dominant ideology
Functionalist perspective
35. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Opinion leader
Capitalism
Significant others
Mass media
36. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Demographic transition
Life expectancy
Profane
Classical theory
37. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Religious rituals
Pluralist model
Credentialism
Birthrate
38. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Counterculture
Sociocultural evolution
Mores
Polygyny
39. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Anticipatory socialization
Gatekeeping
Technology
Interview
40. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Social constructionist perspective
Ethnic group
Liberation theology
Reliability
41. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Control theory
Elite model
Invention
Equilibrium model
42. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Resource mobilization
Relative poverty
Manifest functions
New urban sociology
43. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Survey
Status group
Modernization
Serial monogamy
44. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Exogamy
Vested interests
Hidden curriculum
Role taking
45. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Experiment
Health
Familism
Folkways
46. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Invention
Sexism
Multinational corporations
Content analysis
47. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Expressiveness
Monogamy
Cult
Feminist perspective
48. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Colonialism
Control theory
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Sample
49. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Intragenerational mobility
Dyad
Experiment
McDonaldization
50. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Horticultural societies
Culture shock
Absolute poverty
Suburb