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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. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Role taking
Preindustrial city
Informal economy
Serial monogamy
2. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Triad
Kinship
Contact hypothesis
3. 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.
Significant others
Prevalence
Dramaturgical approach
Experiment
4. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Human ecology
Legal-rational authority
Sexism
Society
5. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Legal-rational authority
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Hawthorne effect
Horizontal mobility
6. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Personality
Bureaucracy
Genocide
Natural science
7. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Defended neighborhood
Role exit
Castes
Prejudice
8. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
In-group
Causal logic
World systems analysis
Functionalist perspective
9. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Theory
Achieved status
Defended neighborhood
Elite model
10. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Social structure
Urban ecology
Research design
Reference group
11. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Status group
Secularization
White-collar crime
Code of ethics
12. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Mortality rate
Hidden curriculum
Influence
Model or ideal minority
13. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Stratification
Labor unions
Class system
Interactionist perspective
14. Salaries and wages.
Income
Observation
Xenocentrism
Community
15. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Out-group
Cultural relativism
Latent functions
Stigma
16. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Endogamy
Social institutions
Looking-glass self
Symbols
17. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Victimless crimes
Formal organization
Cultural transmission
Relative deprivation
18. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Sociobiology
Control theory
Expressiveness
Profane
19. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Counterculture
Stereotypes
Social inequality
20. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Horticultural societies
Alienation
Conflict perspective
Nisei
21. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Ecclesia
Diffusion
Reliability
Urban ecology
22. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Creationism
Functionalist perspective
Slavery
Egalitarian family
23. Governmental social control.
Degradation ceremony
Second shift
Law
Sociological imagination
24. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Diffusion
McDonaldization
Language
Norms
25. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Social epidemiology
Culture
Contact hypothesis
Organized crime
26. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Mass media
Demographic transition
Gerontology
Triad
27. 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.
Xenocentrism
Obedience
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Subculture
28. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
E-commerce
Sacred
Socialization
Human relations approach
29. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Mass media
Material culture
Cultural relativism
Differential association
30. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Bourgeoisie
New social movements
Research design
Functionalist perspective
31. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Political system
Urban ecology
Machismo
Black power
32. According to
Ascribed status
Apartheid
Religion
Argot
33. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Face-work
Law
Human relations approach
Social network
34. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Societal-reaction approach
Industrial city
Adoption
Nisei
35. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Luddites
Scientific method
Industrial society
Questionnaire
36. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Sect
Preindustrial city
Traditional authority
Looking-glass self
37. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Science
Resocialization
Gatekeeping
Personality
38. 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 mobility
Established sect
Disengagement theory
Formal organization
39. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Hidden curriculum
Impression management
Health
Discrimination
40. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Validity
Polygyny
Informal norms
Interactionist perspective
41. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Homophobia
Resource mobilization
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Patriarchy
42. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Gemeinschaft
Influence
Vertical mobility
Dysfunction
43. The study of various aspects of human society.
Second shift
Social science
Polygyny
Polygamy
44. 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.
Gesellschaft
Sick role
Theory
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
45. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Model or ideal minority
Personality
Expressiveness
Social constructionist perspective
46. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Instrumentality
Diffusion
Formal social control
Evolutionary theory
47. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Diffusion
Exploitation theory
Dramaturgical approach
Technology
48. 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.
Stigma
Patriarchy
Narcotizing dysfunction
Ascribed status
49. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Feminist perspective
Research design
Second shift
Sexual harassment
50. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Glass ceiling
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Operational definition
Force