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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. 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.
Adoption
Mass media
Nisei
Self
2. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Role taking
Proletariat
Small group
Prevalence
3. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Invention
Matriarchy
Globalization
Assimilation
4. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Microsociology
Model or ideal minority
Verstehen
Health
5. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Familism
Machismo
Discovery
Population pyramid
6. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Issei
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Polygamy
Victimization surveys
7. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Elite model
Power
World systems analysis
Obedience
8. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Dependency theory
Discrimination
Vital statistics
Discovery
9. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Bourgeoisie
Ethnography
Role conflict
Social change
10. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Infant mortality rate
Polygyny
Population pyramid
Societal-reaction approach
11. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Monopoly
Growth rate
Profane
Patrilineal descent
12. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Sexual harassment
Closed system
Obedience
13. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Anti-Semitism
Population pyramid
Master status
14. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Folkways
Informal norms
Proletariat
Deviance
15. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Education
Gatekeeping
Formal social control
Community
16. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Dependent variable
Manifest functions
Obedience
17. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Social inequality
Gemeinschaft
Gerontology
Language
18. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Population pyramid
Operational definition
Exploitation theory
Life chances
19. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Social mobility
Death rate
False consciousness
Modernization
20. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Underclass
Human ecology
Resocialization
Coalition
21. A three-member group.
Triad
Relative deprivation
Political system
Nisei
22. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Minority group
Obedience
Sexism
Family
23. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Sociobiology
Latent functions
Cognitive theory of development
Sample
24. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Class consciousness
Cultural relativism
Social network
Morbidity rates
25. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Relative deprivation
Theory
Established sect
26. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Counterculture
Social institutions
Conflict perspective
Population pyramid
27. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Mass media
Interactionist perspective
Relative deprivation
Profane
28. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Social epidemiology
Master status
Surveillance function
Language
29. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Modernization theory
Interview
Matriarchy
Political socialization
30. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Ideal type
In-group
Stigma
31. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Status
Correlation
Sample
Instrumentality
32. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Formal norms
Secondary group
Invention
Dramaturgical approach
33. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Values
Established sect
Influence
Polyandry
34. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Sanctions
Narcotizing dysfunction
Gerontology
Political system
35. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Generalized others
Innovation
Intragenerational mobility
Agrarian society
36. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Social constructionist perspective
Second shift
Concentric-zone theory
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
37. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Impression management
Colonialism
Closed system
Formal organization
38. 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.
Feminist perspective
Argot
Community
Capitalism
39. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Gemeinschaft
Class system
Out-group
Qualitative research
40. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Minority group
Adoption
Patrilineal descent
Relative poverty
41. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Pluralist model
Legal-rational authority
Denomination
Fertility
42. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Natural science
Secondary group
Hypothesis
Cognitive theory of development
43. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Control variable
Culture lag
Patriarchy
Causal logic
44. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Status
Open system
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Looking-glass self
45. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Prestige
Societal-reaction approach
Gerontology
Qualitative research
46. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Luddites
Social mobility
Sexual harassment
Political socialization
47. Salaries and wages.
Correlation
Income
Egalitarian family
Neocolonialism
48. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
New social movements
Institutional discrimination
Cultural relativism
Cultural universals
49. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Incest taboo
Domestic partnership
Pluralist model
Population pyramid
50. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Prevalence
Racism
Patriarchy
Status group