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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. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Macrosociology
Urban ecology
Sect
Vested interests
2. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Polygamy
Established sect
Wealth
Influence
3. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Sanctions
Deindustrialization
Face-work
Postmodern society
4. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Serial monogamy
Iron law of oligarchy
Open system
Natural science
5. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Scientific management approach
Relative poverty
Egalitarian family
Telecommuters
6. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
Genocide
In-group
Sanctions
7. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Vital statistics
Crime
Concentric-zone theory
Modernization
8. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Segregation
Disengagement theory
Downsizing
Income
9. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Intragenerational mobility
Role taking
Serial monogamy
Deindustrialization
10. 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.
Labeling theory
Anomie
Liberation theology
Peter principle
11. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Social constructionist perspective
Nonverbal communication
Small group
Human relations approach
12. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Personality
Health
Content analysis
Values
13. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Assimilation
Gemeinschaft
Serial monogamy
Culture
14. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Qualitative research
Political system
Classical theory
15. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Sample
Incidence
Negotiation
Labor unions
16. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Interview
Influence
Family
Multilinear evolutionary theory
17. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Face-work
Class
Egalitarian family
Dyad
18. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Nisei
Stratification
Social network
Single-parent families
19. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Domestic partnership
Variable
New urban sociology
20. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Looking-glass self
Anomie theory of deviance
Horizontal mobility
Denomination
21. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Cohabitation
Bilingualism
Status
Dependent variable
22. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Matriarchy
Content analysis
Amalgamation
Law
23. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Theory
Bilingualism
Education
Elite model
24. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Sexism
Stratification
Cognitive theory of development
25. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Vested interests
Anomie
Social control
Invention
26. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Infant mortality rate
Sample
Census
Social structure
27. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Master status
Monogamy
New urban sociology
Domestic partnership
28. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Diffusion
Discrimination
Sanctions
Stigma
29. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Latent functions
Law
Manifest functions
30. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Slavery
Gesellschaft
Prevalence
Urban ecology
31. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Conformity
Nonverbal communication
Looking-glass self
32. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Technology
Fertility
Hunting-and-gathering society
Anticipatory socialization
33. The incidence of death in a given population.
Mortality rate
World systems analysis
Research design
Unilinear evolutionary theory
34. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Counterculture
Labor unions
Status group
Open system
35. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Curanderismo
Scientific management approach
False consciousness
Matriarchy
36. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Sociological imagination
Ascribed status
Natural science
Sexual harassment
37. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Science
Social change
Invention
Monogamy
38. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Assimilation
Vertical mobility
Scientific management approach
Social movements
39. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Urban ecology
Institutional discrimination
Protestant ethic
Random sample
40. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Coalition
Social inequality
Questionnaire
Prestige
41. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Gatekeeping
Independent variable
Stigma
Prevalence
42. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Kinship
Personality
Luddites
Multinational corporations
43. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Ageism
Social mobility
Small group
New social movements
44. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Elite model
McDonaldization
Patriarchy
45. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Class consciousness
Exploitation theory
Independent variable
Secularization
46. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Racial group
Human relations approach
Affirmative action
Cognitive theory of development
47. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Class system
Intergenerational mobility
Minority group
Social movements
48. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Interactionist perspective
Class consciousness
False consciousness
Hypothesis
49. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Significant others
Role taking
Social role
50. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Social network
Fertility
Nuclear family
Activity theory