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CLEP Sociology
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1. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Theory
Cultural relativism
Differential association
Megalopolis
2. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Minority group
Interview
Control theory
Victimization surveys
3. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Prevalence
Closed system
Primary group
4. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Nuclear family
Elite model
Functionalist perspective
Gatekeeping
5. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Bureaucratization
Impression management
Dependency theory
Influence
6. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
New social movements
Tracking
Victimization surveys
New urban sociology
7. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Telecommuters
Denomination
Goal displacement
Sociology
8. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Vertical mobility
Human relations approach
Quantitative research
Contact hypothesis
9. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Deviance
Alienation
Science
Latent functions
10. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Neocolonialism
Discrimination
Sacred
Cultural transmission
11. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Social movements
Pluralism
Demographic transition
Zero population growth (ZPG)
12. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Hidden curriculum
Polyandry
Anomie
Secondary analysis
13. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Counterculture
Alienation
New urban sociology
Cultural universals
14. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Bilateral descent
Community
Intragenerational mobility
Vested interests
15. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Egalitarian family
Capitalism
Adoption
Population pyramid
16. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Underclass
Reliability
Secondary analysis
Morbidity rates
17. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Community
Sample
Bureaucracy
Significant others
18. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Role conflict
Education
Stratification
Quantitative research
19. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Anti-Semitism
Traditional authority
Socialism
Globalization
20. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Vested interests
Rites of passage
Urban ecology
Unilinear evolutionary theory
21. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Horticultural societies
Symbols
Social network
Discovery
22. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Preindustrial city
Variable
Symbols
Validity
23. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Self
Gatekeeping
Dependency theory
Group
24. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Objective method
Power elite
Informal social control
Role taking
25. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Economic system
Gender roles
Credentialism
Latent functions
26. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Quantitative research
Health
Glass ceiling
Social inequality
27. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Social control
Counterculture
Religious rituals
Unilinear evolutionary theory
28. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Politics
Ideal type
Laissez-faire
Resource mobilization
29. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Face-work
Deindustrialization
Content analysis
30. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Environmental justice
Alienation
Intergenerational mobility
Surveillance function
31. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sociology
Ethnic group
Demographic transition
Labor unions
32. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Gatekeeping
Power elite
Polyandry
Innovation
33. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Achieved status
Established sect
Diffusion
Voluntary associations
34. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Societal-reaction approach
Life expectancy
Extended family
Negotiated order
35. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Master status
Underclass
Vertical mobility
Culture shock
36. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Incidence
Curanderismo
Defended neighborhood
Power
37. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Alienation
Modernization theory
Conformity
Negotiation
38. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Role strain
Science
Homophobia
Issei
39. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Social interaction
Hawthorne effect
Contact hypothesis
Horizontal mobility
40. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Social structure
Role taking
Differential association
Invention
41. 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.
Esteem
Agrarian society
Fertility
Cult
42. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Growth rate
Concentric-zone theory
Instrumentality
Vertical mobility
43. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Professional criminal
Model or ideal minority
Closed system
Dyad
44. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Absolute poverty
Model or ideal minority
Affirmative action
Correspondence principle
45. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Glass ceiling
Political socialization
Morbidity rates
Experiment
46. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Random sample
Informal economy
Assimilation
Discrimination
47. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Dramaturgical approach
Socialization
Class system
Role strain
48. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Ethnography
Colonialism
Argot
Amalgamation
49. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Horizontal mobility
Issei
Religion
Normal accidents
50. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Slavery
Role strain
Symbols
Classical theory