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CLEP Sociology
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1. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Status group
Defended neighborhood
Neocolonialism
Social science
2. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Diffusion
Invention
Research design
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
3. 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
Interactionist perspective
Closed system
Ideal type
4. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Anomie theory of deviance
Economic system
Routine activities theory
Postindustrial city
5. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Health
Census
Segregation
6. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Objective method
Established sect
Organized crime
Ecclesia
7. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Goal displacement
Industrial society
Value neutrality
Nonmaterial culture
8. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Group
Symbols
Intragenerational mobility
Culture
9. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Correlation
Demography
Triad
Validity
10. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Instrumentality
Infant mortality rate
False consciousness
Class consciousness
11. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Birthrate
Racism
Income
Organized crime
12. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Assimilation
Interactionist perspective
Industrial city
Rites of passage
13. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Incidence
Normal accidents
Black power
Formal organization
14. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Differential association
Dysfunction
Pluralist model
Apartheid
15. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Credentialism
Causal logic
Total institutions
Gemeinschaft
16. 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.
Politics
Prestige
Family
Social role
17. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Resocialization
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Diffusion
Downsizing
18. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Prejudice
Influence
Independent variable
Natural science
19. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Fertility
Morbidity rates
Demography
Subculture
20. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Value neutrality
Triad
Sick role
21. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Social institutions
Cultural universals
Values
Interactionist perspective
22. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Sociological imagination
Capitalism
Latent functions
Relative poverty
23. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Defended neighborhood
Proletariat
New social movements
24. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Interview
Negotiated order
Sexism
25. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Cult
Iron law of oligarchy
Neocolonialism
Anti-Semitism
26. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.
Society
Urbanism
New social movements
Master status
27. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Industrial society
Gemeinschaft
Feminist perspective
Single-parent families
28. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Human relations approach
Religion
Education
Social science
29. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Hidden curriculum
Folkways
Laissez-faire
Obedience
30. 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.
Secondary group
Peter principle
Growth rate
Sacred
31. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Profane
Interactionist perspective
Gerontology
Dysfunction
32. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Morbidity rates
Value neutrality
Census
Social science
33. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Language
Cultural transmission
Opinion leader
Polygyny
34. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Modernization
Technology
Issei
Generalized others
35. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Power
Megalopolis
Status
Manifest functions
36. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Counterculture
Routine activities theory
Bilingualism
Formal social control
37. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Urban ecology
Cultural relativism
Social inequality
38. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Preindustrial city
Glass ceiling
Extended family
Protestant ethic
39. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Nuclear family
Looking-glass self
Laissez-faire
40. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Industrial city
E-commerce
Informal social control
Anticipatory socialization
41. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Manifest functions
Patriarchy
Model or ideal minority
Victimization surveys
42. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Argot
Legal-rational authority
Obedience
Apartheid
43. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Social inequality
Variable
Anti-Semitism
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
44. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Anomie
Social mobility
Homophobia
Underclass
45. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Urban ecology
Society
Life chances
Experiment
46. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Teacher-expectancy effect
Industrial society
Hidden curriculum
47. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Industrial society
Dysfunction
Activity theory
Sanctions
48. 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.
Ascribed status
Esteem
Power elite
Status group
49. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Validity
Growth rate
Goal displacement
50. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Cultural transmission
Latent functions
Assimilation
Quantitative research