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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Material culture
Mores
Nuclear family
Role strain
2. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Religious beliefs
Formal organization
Multinational corporations
Value neutrality
3. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Correlation
Dominant ideology
Subculture
Social control
4. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Variable
Polygyny
Sick role
Rites of passage
5. The incidence of death in a given population.
Mortality rate
Formal norms
Socialism
Rites of passage
6. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Feminist perspective
Voluntary associations
Polygamy
Status
7. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Variable
Relative deprivation
Health
Triad
8. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Social control
Polygyny
Crime
Secondary group
9. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Reference group
Control group
Status
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
10. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Economic system
Luddites
Telecommuters
Globalization
11. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Intragenerational mobility
Formal norms
Resource mobilization
Objective method
12. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Anomie
Demographic transition
Modernization theory
Counterculture
13. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Social epidemiology
Urban ecology
Bureaucracy
Societal-reaction approach
14. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Human ecology
Assimilation
Bilateral descent
Degradation ceremony
15. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Horticultural societies
Population pyramid
Social role
Telecommuters
16. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Polygyny
Assimilation
Gesellschaft
Extended family
17. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Scientific management approach
Macrosociology
Surveillance function
Culture shock
18. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Second shift
Religious beliefs
Causal logic
Latent functions
19. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Culture shock
Vertical mobility
Status
Nisei
20. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Objective method
Social science
Expressiveness
Mores
21. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Xenocentrism
Capitalism
Urban ecology
Ethnic group
22. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Invention
Sociobiology
Bilateral descent
Language
23. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Modernization
Goal displacement
In-group
Prestige
24. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Proletariat
Science
Bilateral descent
25. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Egalitarian family
Narcotizing dysfunction
Control variable
26. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Nuclear family
Victimization surveys
In-group
27. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Profane
Random sample
Causal logic
Subculture
28. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Glass ceiling
Human ecology
Reference group
Serial monogamy
29. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Kinship
Urbanism
Modernization
Formal norms
30. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Status
Profane
Activity theory
Social structure
31. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Gemeinschaft
Second shift
Gerontology
Control group
32. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.
Social interaction
Liberation theology
Religious rituals
Power elite
33. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Socialization
Curanderismo
Symbols
Credentialism
34. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Scientific management approach
Rites of passage
Formal norms
Political system
35. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Apartheid
Informal norms
Random sample
Social role
36. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Obedience
Operational definition
Political system
Force
37. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Morbidity rates
Hunting-and-gathering society
Egalitarian family
Secondary group
38. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Ascribed status
Looking-glass self
Correlation
Teacher-expectancy effect
39. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Exploitation theory
Industrial city
Multinational corporations
Life chances
40. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Politics
Objective method
Deviance
Out-group
41. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Research design
Labor unions
Agrarian society
Nisei
42. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Cohabitation
Homophobia
Normal accidents
43. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.
Anomie theory of deviance
Stereotypes
Routine activities theory
Sociological imagination
44. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Counterculture
Control theory
Theory
Reference group
45. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Social science
Sociobiology
Disengagement theory
Multinational corporations
46. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Census
Gemeinschaft
Class system
Assimilation
47. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Religion
Looking-glass self
Tracking
48. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
Subculture
Gatekeeping
Science
49. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Matrilineal descent
Agrarian society
Degradation ceremony
Code of ethics
50. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Gatekeeping
Dependency theory
Diffusion
Anti-Semitism