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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. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Charismatic authority
Homophobia
Research design
Control theory
2. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Experimental group
Classical theory
Contact hypothesis
Polyandry
3. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Verstehen
Victimization surveys
Formal organization
Total institutions
4. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Theory
Informal economy
Class
Natural science
5. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Institutional discrimination
Obedience
Influence
Coalition
6. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Operational definition
Social constructionist perspective
Conformity
Research design
7. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Science
Cultural transmission
Religious rituals
Polygyny
8. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Relative deprivation
Cultural universals
Social change
Labeling theory
9. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Domestic partnership
Expressiveness
Force
Education
10. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Degradation ceremony
Matriarchy
Crime
Pluralist model
11. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Bilingualism
Growth rate
Castes
Small group
12. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Norms
Environmental justice
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Gender roles
13. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Language
Class
Technology
Industrial city
14. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Cognitive theory of development
Social change
Social institutions
Bilingualism
15. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Affirmative action
Role exit
Issei
Sociobiology
16. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Organized crime
Argot
Community
Social role
17. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Monogamy
Quantitative research
Goal displacement
Slavery
18. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Affirmative action
Social network
Classical theory
Proletariat
19. The study of various aspects of human society.
Urban ecology
Social science
Stratification
Modernization theory
20. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Proletariat
Status
Curanderismo
Self
21. 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.
Extended family
Narcotizing dysfunction
Scientific management approach
Verstehen
22. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Industrial city
Societal-reaction approach
Expressiveness
Cultural relativism
23. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Class consciousness
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Achieved status
Negotiation
24. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Social inequality
Nonmaterial culture
Culture lag
Disengagement theory
25. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Dysfunction
Patriarchy
Birthrate
Xenocentrism
26. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Fertility
Bureaucratization
Vertical mobility
Xenocentrism
27. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Master status
Monogamy
Bureaucratization
Political socialization
28. A two-member group.
Single-parent families
Rites of passage
Experiment
Dyad
29. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Cult
Reference group
Mortality rate
30. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Social interaction
Evolutionary theory
Microsociology
Ecclesia
31. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Serial monogamy
Morbidity rates
Population pyramid
Resource mobilization
32. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Social mobility
Laissez-faire
Matriarchy
Neocolonialism
33. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Political system
Deindustrialization
Religious rituals
34. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Deviance
Power
White-collar crime
Family
35. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Industrial society
Routine activities theory
Gerontology
Contact hypothesis
36. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Disengagement theory
Nonmaterial culture
Sociobiology
Culture lag
37. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Material culture
Xenocentrism
Politics
Narcotizing dysfunction
38. The state of being related to others.
Stratification
Gatekeeping
Iron law of oligarchy
Kinship
39. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential association
Politics
Life expectancy
Informal social control
40. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Qualitative research
Ascribed status
Organized crime
Closed system
41. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Interactionist perspective
Charismatic authority
Homophobia
Ethnography
42. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Amalgamation
Dramaturgical approach
Innovation
Validity
43. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Dominant ideology
Subculture
Quantitative research
44. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Demographic transition
Luddites
Machismo
Looking-glass self
45. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Informal social control
Surveillance function
World systems analysis
Informal economy
46. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Manifest functions
Globalization
Xenocentrism
Concentric-zone theory
47. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Trained incapacity
Serial monogamy
Exogamy
Self
48. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Victimless crimes
Telecommuters
Affirmative action
Subculture
49. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Horizontal mobility
Religious experience
Social constructionist perspective
Socialism
50. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Vital statistics
Ethnography
E-commerce
Gender roles