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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Sexism
Social change
Informal social control
Hawthorne effect
2. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Religious beliefs
Cult
Black power
Exploitation theory
3. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Bilateral descent
Patriarchy
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Organized crime
4. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Activity theory
Social change
Neocolonialism
Operational definition
5. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Self
Environmental justice
Deindustrialization
Class
6. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Bilateral descent
Social movements
Influence
Dependent variable
7. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Expressiveness
Elite model
Surveillance function
Zero population growth (ZPG)
8. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Modernization
Preindustrial city
Formal organization
Feminist perspective
9. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Horizontal mobility
Fertility
Status
Classical theory
10. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Social science
Industrial society
Correlation
Colonialism
11. 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.
Terrorism
Significant others
Polygyny
Force
12. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Social inequality
Correlation
Luddites
Racial group
13. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Degradation ceremony
Control variable
Hawthorne effect
Cultural relativism
14. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Monopoly
Second shift
Class
Scientific management approach
15. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Morbidity rates
Dramaturgical approach
Megalopolis
16. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Demography
Monopoly
Sexism
Extended family
17. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Ecclesia
Instrumentality
Open system
18. Governmental social control.
Status group
Norms
Latent functions
Law
19. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Scientific management approach
Sociocultural evolution
Black power
Primary group
20. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Social inequality
Sanctions
Traditional authority
Family
21. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Extended family
Patriarchy
McDonaldization
Status group
22. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Social science
Exploitation theory
Racism
Absolute poverty
23. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Death rate
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Resource mobilization
Nonmaterial culture
24. 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.
Social movements
Sexual harassment
Population pyramid
Folkways
25. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Content analysis
Independent variable
Issei
26. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Cultural universals
Gerontology
Correlation
Culture
27. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Questionnaire
Anti-Semitism
Castes
Sick role
28. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Serial monogamy
Exploitation theory
In-group
29. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Patrilineal descent
Charismatic authority
Looking-glass self
Credentialism
30. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Technology
Xenocentrism
Informal social control
Sect
31. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Population pyramid
Conflict perspective
Language
Glass ceiling
32. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Stereotypes
Death rate
Anti-Semitism
Domestic partnership
33. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Activity theory
Social interaction
Anti-Semitism
Wealth
34. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Hypothesis
E-commerce
Code of ethics
Power elite
35. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Income
Victimless crimes
Hunting-and-gathering society
Role conflict
36. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Iron law of oligarchy
Machismo
Suburb
Matriarchy
37. According to
Vertical mobility
Patriarchy
Religion
Economic system
38. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Bureaucratization
Slavery
Causal logic
Subculture
39. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Victimization surveys
In-group
Political socialization
Sexism
40. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Endogamy
Religious rituals
Birthrate
41. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Intergenerational mobility
World systems analysis
Sociobiology
Degradation ceremony
42. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Colonialism
Economic system
Dependency theory
43. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Organized crime
Nonverbal communication
Nonmaterial culture
Ascribed status
44. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Liberation theology
Income
Achieved status
Social inequality
45. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Vested interests
Preindustrial city
Relative deprivation
Exogamy
46. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Genocide
Legal-rational authority
Symbols
Dysfunction
47. 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.
Group
Narcotizing dysfunction
Genocide
Formal organization
48. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Proletariat
Postmodern society
Political socialization
Prevalence
49. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Anticipatory socialization
Questionnaire
Mores
Resocialization
50. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Quantitative research
Deviance
Affirmative action