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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Social mobility
Dramaturgical approach
Credentialism
Code of ethics
2. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Feminist perspective
Quantitative research
Industrial city
Verstehen
3. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Classical theory
Homophobia
Religious rituals
Sociocultural evolution
4. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Victimization surveys
Life expectancy
Underclass
Social change
5. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Cultural universals
Nisei
Colonialism
Role exit
6. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Culture lag
Sociology
False consciousness
Horticultural societies
7. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
New urban sociology
Sacred
Bilingualism
Science
8. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Monopoly
Interview
Negotiated order
Multilinear evolutionary theory
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.
Experiment
Culture lag
Verstehen
Observation
10. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Postindustrial society
Sociobiology
Prevalence
Social movements
11. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Manifest functions
Political socialization
Social science
Social interaction
12. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Gatekeeping
Macrosociology
Social mobility
Opinion leader
13. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Monogamy
Classical theory
Control group
Traditional authority
14. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Symbols
Mass media
Political system
Anomie
15. 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.
Significant others
Class consciousness
White-collar crime
Victimless crimes
16. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Triad
Postindustrial society
Out-group
Absolute poverty
17. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Rites of passage
Diffusion
Infant mortality rate
Triad
18. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Observation
Theory
Patriarchy
Religious experience
19. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Political socialization
Ecclesia
Polygyny
Quantitative research
20. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Demographic transition
Nonmaterial culture
Ethnography
Castes
21. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Black power
Out-group
Culture
Modernization theory
22. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Negotiation
Informal social control
Societal-reaction approach
Secondary group
23. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Bilateral descent
Gemeinschaft
Significant others
Open system
24. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Minority group
Megalopolis
Amalgamation
Class system
25. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Instrumentality
Wealth
Social control
Master status
26. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Census
Content analysis
Ecclesia
27. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Megalopolis
Voluntary associations
Egalitarian family
Education
28. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
False consciousness
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Xenocentrism
Values
29. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Deviance
Social role
Status
Slavery
30. 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.
Objective method
Experimental group
Religious rituals
Authority
31. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Intragenerational mobility
Affirmative action
Hawthorne effect
Argot
32. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Random sample
Expressiveness
Creationism
Stratification
33. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Credentialism
Adoption
Victimless crimes
Downsizing
34. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Gerontology
Closed system
Norms
Survey
35. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
McDonaldization
Health
Voluntary associations
Secondary analysis
36. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Religious experience
Subculture
Stratification
Endogamy
37. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Ethnocentrism
Experimental group
Esteem
Equilibrium model
38. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Goal displacement
Research design
Resocialization
Trained incapacity
39. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Assimilation
Qualitative research
Profane
Ethnocentrism
40. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Deindustrialization
Prestige
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Suburb
41. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Religious beliefs
Secularization
Classical theory
42. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Census
Community
E-commerce
Social network
43. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Sexual harassment
Differential association
Deviance
Society
44. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Demographic transition
Counterculture
Sanctions
Postmodern society
45. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Concentric-zone theory
Minority group
Formal norms
Victimless crimes
46. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Obedience
Curanderismo
Voluntary associations
Correlation
47. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Argot
White-collar crime
Role strain
48. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Fertility
Bourgeoisie
Secondary analysis
Degradation ceremony
49. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Intergenerational mobility
Social interaction
Correspondence principle
Social network
50. 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.
Norms
New social movements
Professional criminal
Family