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CLEP Sociology
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1. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Scientific management approach
Liberation theology
Serial monogamy
Anomie
2. 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.
Objective method
Anticipatory socialization
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Formal organization
3. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
E-commerce
Informal social control
Mass media
Liberation theology
4. 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.
Exploitation theory
Socialism
Crime
Narcotizing dysfunction
5. Another name for labeling theory.
Socialization
Ascribed status
Societal-reaction approach
Looking-glass self
6. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Multinational corporations
Environmental justice
Personality
Classical theory
7. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Control group
Iron law of oligarchy
Religious experience
Wealth
8. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Evolutionary theory
Social inequality
Experiment
Bilateral descent
9. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Ageism
Instrumentality
New social movements
Contact hypothesis
10. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
World systems analysis
Ideal type
Hawthorne effect
Influence
11. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Reliability
Luddites
Bilateral descent
Second shift
12. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Politics
Patriarchy
Formal organization
Stigma
13. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Polyandry
Fertility
Scientific management approach
Exogamy
14. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Folkways
Class
Intragenerational mobility
Social control
15. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Familism
Wealth
Polygamy
Dominant ideology
16. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Out-group
Informal norms
Activity theory
Incest taboo
17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Modernization theory
Social network
Validity
Class
18. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Infant mortality rate
Sect
Routine activities theory
Birthrate
19. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Social institutions
Social inequality
Disengagement theory
Black power
20. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Defended neighborhood
Formal organization
Monopoly
Ethnic group
21. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Experimental group
Value neutrality
Survey
Interview
22. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Deviance
Primary group
Colonialism
Profane
23. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Independent variable
Issei
Egalitarian family
Obedience
24. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Nonverbal communication
Social interaction
Nonmaterial culture
Exogamy
25. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
White-collar crime
Wealth
Kinship
26. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Observation
Small group
Credentialism
Serial monogamy
27. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Cult
Folkways
Modernization theory
Socialization
28. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Discovery
Demographic transition
Total institutions
Xenocentrism
29. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Folkways
Hunting-and-gathering society
Exogamy
Control theory
30. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Instrumentality
Informal social control
Rites of passage
Reliability
31. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Social change
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Apartheid
Neocolonialism
32. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Creationism
Labor unions
Serial monogamy
Observation
33. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Random sample
Macrosociology
Globalization
Professional criminal
34. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Discrimination
Education
Demographic transition
Ecclesia
35. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Victimless crimes
Polyandry
Incest taboo
Sacred
36. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Nonmaterial culture
Subculture
Relative deprivation
Prestige
37. 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.
Influence
Mortality rate
Sociobiology
McDonaldization
38. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Power
Teacher-expectancy effect
Evolutionary theory
Surveillance function
39. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Social control
Cultural relativism
Ethnocentrism
Trained incapacity
40. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Subculture
Alienation
Anomie
Life chances
41. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Socialism
Natural science
Life expectancy
Multinational corporations
42. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Causal logic
Cultural universals
Denomination
Informal norms
43. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Social inequality
Religious rituals
Power elite
Urbanism
44. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Apartheid
Protestant ethic
Resource mobilization
Discrimination
45. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Cohabitation
Social control
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Multiple-nuclei theory
46. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Sample
Birthrate
Neocolonialism
Zero population growth (ZPG)
47. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Mores
Tracking
E-commerce
Multinational corporations
48. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Alienation
Domestic partnership
Conformity
Vested interests
49. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Bureaucratization
Death rate
Familism
Sect
50. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Cultural transmission
Established sect
Curanderismo
Ethnography