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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A two-member group.
Exploitation theory
Esteem
Vital statistics
Dyad
2. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Activity theory
Society
Dominant ideology
Sect
3. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Elite model
Incidence
Cohabitation
Liberation theology
4. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Social science
Model or ideal minority
Industrial society
Correspondence principle
5. 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
Ethnocentrism
Suburb
Zero population growth (ZPG)
6. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Colonialism
Conflict perspective
Xenocentrism
Resocialization
7. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Nisei
Esteem
Mores
8. 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.
Informal economy
Instrumentality
Role taking
Survey
9. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Activity theory
Discovery
Power elite
Natural science
10. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Secondary analysis
Ethnography
Class
Sociobiology
11. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Technology
Natural science
Rites of passage
Equilibrium model
12. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Mores
Quantitative research
Socialism
Value neutrality
13. 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.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Family
Voluntary associations
Self
14. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Political socialization
Sexism
Social institutions
Manifest functions
15. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Population pyramid
Status group
Interactionist perspective
Society
16. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Minority group
Globalization
Informal social control
Second shift
17. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Polygyny
Triad
Ethnography
Familism
18. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Vital statistics
Ideal type
Differential association
Alienation
19. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Informal economy
Macrosociology
Science
Hidden curriculum
20. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Serial monogamy
Differential association
Independent variable
Monogamy
21. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Resocialization
Proletariat
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Slavery
22. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Reference group
Life expectancy
Established sect
23. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Laissez-faire
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Horticultural societies
Issei
24. 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.
Vital statistics
Agrarian society
Relative poverty
Nisei
25. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Relative poverty
Horticultural societies
Sociological imagination
Mass media
26. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Religious rituals
Agrarian society
Politics
Gerontology
27. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Traditional authority
Anti-Semitism
Homophobia
Correlation
28. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Infant mortality rate
In-group
Class
Teacher-expectancy effect
29. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Vested interests
Total institutions
Wealth
Horticultural societies
30. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Natural science
Cultural relativism
Victimization surveys
Horticultural societies
31. 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.
Iron law of oligarchy
Generalized others
Role taking
Demography
32. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Technology
Science
Monogamy
Verstehen
33. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Control group
In-group
Sociological imagination
Polygyny
34. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Contact hypothesis
Instrumentality
Sociobiology
Proletariat
35. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Labor unions
Culture lag
Infant mortality rate
36. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Class
Birthrate
Class consciousness
Unilinear evolutionary theory
37. 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.
Labeling theory
Sexual harassment
Influence
Denomination
38. 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.
Normal accidents
Symbols
Zero population growth (ZPG)
New urban sociology
39. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Norms
Role conflict
False consciousness
Dysfunction
40. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Material culture
Role strain
Extended family
41. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Operational definition
Issei
Interview
Neocolonialism
42. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Research design
Science
Defended neighborhood
Community
43. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Counterculture
Equilibrium model
Looking-glass self
Victimization surveys
44. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Dependent variable
Census
Urbanism
Organized crime
45. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Role exit
Self
Industrial city
46. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Hypothesis
Society
Random sample
Castes
47. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Defended neighborhood
Intergenerational mobility
Trained incapacity
Social network
48. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Contact hypothesis
Neocolonialism
Nuclear family
Victimless crimes
49. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Sociobiology
Sample
Political system
50. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
Class consciousness
Evolutionary theory
Demography