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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. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Social role
Master status
Content analysis
Demographic transition
2. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Religious experience
Charismatic authority
Deviance
Ethnic group
3. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Socialism
Latent functions
Patriarchy
Reliability
4. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Formal norms
Anti-Semitism
Triad
Health
5. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Capitalism
Authority
Personality
Symbols
6. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Monopoly
Culture shock
Horizontal mobility
Contact hypothesis
7. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Anomie theory of deviance
Credentialism
Issei
Hunting-and-gathering society
8. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Prejudice
Folkways
Life expectancy
Stratification
9. Governmental social control.
Resource mobilization
Family
Teacher-expectancy effect
Law
10. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
New urban sociology
Invention
Ageism
11. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Gemeinschaft
Theory
Control variable
Routine activities theory
12. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Incidence
Nisei
Out-group
Anomie theory of deviance
13. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Gender roles
Stigma
Assimilation
Neocolonialism
14. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Innovation
Deviance
Theory
Culture
15. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Variable
Income
E-commerce
Curanderismo
16. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Ideal type
Observation
Prevalence
Equilibrium model
17. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Patrilineal descent
Politics
Folkways
Crime
18. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
False consciousness
Microsociology
Kinship
Rites of passage
19. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Agrarian society
Laissez-faire
Instrumentality
Monogamy
20. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Polygamy
Deindustrialization
Matrilineal descent
Technology
21. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Power
Sociobiology
Ethnic group
22. 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.
Validity
Family
Discrimination
Feminist perspective
23. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Culture
Victimless crimes
Formal organization
Status
24. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Social control
Victimless crimes
Generalized others
Routine activities theory
25. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Defended neighborhood
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Group
26. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Nisei
Postindustrial city
Coalition
Validity
27. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Resocialization
Sample
Incidence
Megalopolis
28. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Birthrate
Ethnography
Stigma
Multilinear evolutionary theory
29. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Monogamy
Defended neighborhood
Experiment
Gemeinschaft
30. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Hawthorne effect
Survey
Matrilineal descent
Cohabitation
31. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Stratification
Surveillance function
Natural science
Discovery
32. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Cultural relativism
Traditional authority
Terrorism
Incidence
33. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
New social movements
Master status
Status
Nuclear family
34. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Latent functions
Deindustrialization
Socialization
Legal-rational authority
35. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Gerontology
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Postmodern society
Innovation
36. A two-member group.
Hypothesis
Monopoly
Concentric-zone theory
Dyad
37. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.
Correspondence principle
Growth rate
Pluralist model
Macrosociology
38. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Polygamy
Sick role
Industrial society
39. 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.
Growth rate
Socialism
Vested interests
Model or ideal minority
40. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Intragenerational mobility
New urban sociology
Stereotypes
Scientific method
41. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Social mobility
Triad
Role conflict
Elite model
42. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Anomie theory of deviance
Observation
Incidence
Urbanism
43. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Value neutrality
Traditional authority
Bourgeoisie
Cultural universals
44. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Formal social control
Vested interests
Group
Victimless crimes
45. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Laissez-faire
Exogamy
Second shift
Instrumentality
46. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Nonverbal communication
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Profane
47. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Economic system
Curanderismo
Closed system
Narcotizing dysfunction
48. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Established sect
Negotiation
Ethnocentrism
Organized crime
49. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Suburb
Nonverbal communication
Hypothesis
50. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Defended neighborhood
Intergenerational mobility
Horticultural societies
Modernization