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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 form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Social institutions
Informal norms
Intragenerational mobility
Monogamy
2. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Status
Human relations approach
Conflict perspective
Sociological imagination
3. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Sociobiology
Folkways
Megalopolis
Secondary analysis
4. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Community
Opinion leader
Impression management
Diffusion
5. 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.
Achieved status
Role conflict
White-collar crime
Zero population growth (ZPG)
6. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Control theory
Role taking
Deindustrialization
Contact hypothesis
7. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Modernization
Sample
Conformity
Secularization
8. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Resocialization
Master status
Polygamy
Gatekeeping
9. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Human relations approach
Egalitarian family
Charismatic authority
Environmental justice
10. Another name for labeling theory.
Extended family
Social epidemiology
Demographic transition
Societal-reaction approach
11. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Random sample
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Status
Patrilineal descent
12. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Nonmaterial culture
Incest taboo
Population pyramid
Qualitative research
13. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Societal-reaction approach
Single-parent families
Variable
Multinational corporations
14. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Gesellschaft
Religious beliefs
Endogamy
Informal norms
15. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Role exit
Reference group
Negotiation
Interview
16. 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.
Content analysis
Domestic partnership
Apartheid
Verstehen
17. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Control variable
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Serial monogamy
Laissez-faire
18. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Macrosociology
Polyandry
Counterculture
Endogamy
19. 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.
Total institutions
Political socialization
Issei
Income
20. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Ageism
Correspondence principle
Single-parent families
Informal social control
21. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Ageism
Economic system
Scientific method
Social structure
22. 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.
Elite model
Adoption
Stratification
Group
23. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Stratification
Social control
Control theory
Economic system
24. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Downsizing
Homophobia
Segregation
Deviance
25. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Qualitative research
Ethnography
Socialization
Globalization
26. A two-member group.
Hidden curriculum
Dyad
Suburb
Symbols
27. 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.
Labeling theory
Relative poverty
New social movements
Family
28. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Demographic transition
Pluralism
Hypothesis
Face-work
29. 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.
Power elite
Social role
Culture shock
Functionalist perspective
30. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Evolutionary theory
Questionnaire
Traditional authority
31. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Out-group
Assimilation
Domestic partnership
32. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Feminist perspective
Degradation ceremony
Vertical mobility
Postmodern society
33. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Closed system
Content analysis
Endogamy
Material culture
34. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Objective method
Infant mortality rate
Role exit
35. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
In-group
Intergenerational mobility
Victimization surveys
Postindustrial city
36. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Content analysis
Open system
Class consciousness
Sanctions
37. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Family
Opinion leader
Protestant ethic
Colonialism
38. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Conformity
Causal logic
Surveillance function
Political socialization
39. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Organized crime
Sick role
Triad
Liberation theology
40. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Stereotypes
Incidence
Peter principle
Gerontology
41. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Social epidemiology
Segregation
Hawthorne effect
42. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Life expectancy
Iron law of oligarchy
Dependency theory
43. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Resocialization
In-group
Machismo
Closed system
44. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Victimization surveys
Subculture
Interactionist perspective
Discovery
45. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Protestant ethic
Cultural relativism
Invention
46. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Sociocultural evolution
Segregation
Proletariat
Control variable
47. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Dramaturgical approach
Elite model
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Discovery
48. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Family
Disengagement theory
Horticultural societies
Relative deprivation
49. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Content analysis
Polyandry
Proletariat
Science
50. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Birthrate
Social movements
Professional criminal
Differential association