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CLEP Sociology
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1. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Xenocentrism
Expressiveness
Independent variable
Cognitive theory of development
2. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Racial group
Folkways
Concentric-zone theory
Income
3. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Vertical mobility
Ethnography
Reference group
4. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Xenocentrism
Life expectancy
Suburb
5. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Control theory
Protestant ethic
Mass media
Normal accidents
6. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Infant mortality rate
Apartheid
Personality
Matriarchy
7. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Intragenerational mobility
Hypothesis
Economic system
Functionalist perspective
8. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Postindustrial society
Iron law of oligarchy
Ecclesia
Serial monogamy
9. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Correlation
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Anomie
Science
10. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Underclass
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Feminist perspective
Bureaucracy
11. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Dependent variable
Machismo
Negotiation
12. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Social change
Monopoly
Horticultural societies
Role strain
13. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Exploitation theory
Iron law of oligarchy
Looking-glass self
Relative deprivation
14. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Social network
Dependency theory
Quantitative research
15. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Informal norms
Hypothesis
Sociology
16. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Sociological imagination
Amalgamation
Underclass
Deindustrialization
17. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Multinational corporations
Defended neighborhood
Social change
Relative deprivation
18. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Cohabitation
Scientific management approach
Horticultural societies
Evolutionary theory
19. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Conformity
Nonverbal communication
Natural science
Social institutions
20. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Wealth
Machismo
Formal organization
Class
21. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Functionalist perspective
Social change
Birthrate
Horticultural societies
22. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Control group
Status
Role conflict
Classical theory
23. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Correlation
Community
New urban sociology
Interactionist perspective
24. 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.
Terrorism
Manifest functions
Verstehen
Secondary analysis
25. The scientific study of population.
Random sample
Role strain
Demography
Material culture
26. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Monopoly
Xenocentrism
Adoption
Sociobiology
27. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Sexual harassment
Modernization theory
Values
28. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Ascribed status
Functionalist perspective
Social constructionist perspective
Social network
29. 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
Incest taboo
Dependency theory
Sociobiology
30. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Suburb
Patrilineal descent
Sexism
Self
31. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Fertility
Prestige
Informal social control
Luddites
32. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Social science
Activity theory
Scientific management approach
33. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Elite model
Peter principle
Social control
Class
34. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Tracking
Technology
Social epidemiology
Sick role
35. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Primary group
Random sample
Industrial society
Affirmative action
36. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Proletariat
White-collar crime
Concentric-zone theory
Formal social control
37. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Multinational corporations
Social change
Apartheid
Egalitarian family
38. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Stigma
Ethnocentrism
Second shift
Terrorism
39. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Achieved status
Language
Stratification
Hypothesis
40. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Nonverbal communication
Culture
Political socialization
Kinship
41. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Negotiated order
Latent functions
Matriarchy
White-collar crime
42. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Values
Single-parent families
Equilibrium model
Resource mobilization
43. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Polygyny
Reliability
World systems analysis
Iron law of oligarchy
44. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Interview
Postmodern society
Sociobiology
45. Salaries and wages.
Income
Stereotypes
Norms
Cultural universals
46. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Bureaucratization
Culture lag
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Organized crime
47. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Negotiation
Model or ideal minority
Alienation
McDonaldization
48. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Nonverbal communication
Authority
Subculture
Income
49. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Contact hypothesis
Globalization
Tracking
Observation
50. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Bilingualism
Microsociology
Iron law of oligarchy
Survey