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CLEP Sociology
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1. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Scientific management approach
Amalgamation
Incest taboo
2. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Anomie theory of deviance
Sociocultural evolution
Gesellschaft
Science
3. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Open system
Assimilation
Force
Model or ideal minority
4. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Degradation ceremony
Classical theory
Normal accidents
Suburb
5. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Postmodern society
Correlation
Absolute poverty
6. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Operational definition
Crime
Prevalence
Class consciousness
7. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Gemeinschaft
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Census
8. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Mass media
Urbanism
Death rate
9. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Verstehen
Technology
Pluralist model
Activity theory
10. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Labeling theory
Law
Multinational corporations
Liberation theology
11. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Pluralist model
Concentric-zone theory
Discrimination
Established sect
12. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Opinion leader
Postindustrial city
Relative deprivation
Cultural relativism
13. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Black power
Instrumentality
Familism
Profane
14. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Dramaturgical approach
Society
Open system
Social role
15. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Dependent variable
Control variable
Castes
Kinship
16. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Prejudice
Peter principle
Out-group
Stratification
17. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Multinational corporations
Sacred
Absolute poverty
Questionnaire
18. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Demographic transition
Science
Anti-Semitism
Luddites
19. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Secondary group
Resocialization
Sociocultural evolution
Intergenerational mobility
20. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Control group
Black power
Prestige
21. 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.
Technology
Charismatic authority
New urban sociology
Nisei
22. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Anticipatory socialization
Random sample
Instrumentality
23. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Urban ecology
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Class
Sociology
24. A two-member group.
Sick role
Dyad
Anomie
Bureaucracy
25. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Affirmative action
Argot
Stratification
Xenocentrism
26. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Social change
Dysfunction
Birthrate
Ethnography
27. 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.
Diffusion
Exogamy
Pluralism
Society
28. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Gesellschaft
Material culture
Causal logic
Interview
29. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Population pyramid
Political socialization
Reliability
Control theory
30. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Ethnic group
Norms
Qualitative research
Class system
31. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Objective method
Glass ceiling
Postindustrial society
Sexual harassment
32. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Sanctions
Classical theory
Cognitive theory of development
Downsizing
33. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Informal social control
Culture lag
Human ecology
34. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Anti-Semitism
Stigma
Informal norms
Suburb
35. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Neocolonialism
Gemeinschaft
Ecclesia
Absolute poverty
36. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Invention
Social role
Exogamy
Equilibrium model
37. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Role exit
Life expectancy
Argot
Birthrate
38. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Achieved status
Multinational corporations
Kinship
Domestic partnership
39. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Prestige
Nonmaterial culture
Socialization
40. 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.
Hypothesis
Norms
Significant others
Relative deprivation
41. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Labeling theory
Discovery
Charismatic authority
Negotiated order
42. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Operational definition
Xenocentrism
Iron law of oligarchy
43. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Institutional discrimination
Postindustrial society
Material culture
44. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Hawthorne effect
Genocide
Correspondence principle
Influence
45. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Language
Hypothesis
New urban sociology
Formal norms
46. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Exogamy
Negotiated order
Political socialization
Role strain
47. According to
Society
Religion
Ethnic group
Narcotizing dysfunction
48. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Causal logic
Ethnic group
Expressiveness
Postmodern society
49. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Sexual harassment
Defended neighborhood
Deviance
Politics
50. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Quantitative research
Genocide
Secondary analysis
Matriarchy