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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. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Rites of passage
Preindustrial city
Influence
Postmodern society
2. 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.
Prestige
Domestic partnership
Cultural transmission
Power elite
3. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Diffusion
Dominant ideology
Gatekeeping
Modernization
4. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Secondary analysis
Serial monogamy
Law
Discrimination
5. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Force
Horizontal mobility
Intragenerational mobility
Bureaucracy
6. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Variable
Underclass
Significant others
Social movements
7. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Interactionist perspective
Social institutions
Validity
Innovation
8. 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.
Relative poverty
Horizontal mobility
Hawthorne effect
Face-work
9. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Observation
Industrial society
Serial monogamy
Megalopolis
10. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Education
Nonmaterial culture
Role exit
Culture
11. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Issei
Culture lag
Prevalence
Family
12. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Egalitarian family
Cultural relativism
Modernization
Invention
13. 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.
World systems analysis
Closed system
Health
Force
14. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Culture lag
Out-group
Teacher-expectancy effect
15. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Genocide
Surveillance function
Social network
Deviance
16. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Postmodern society
Force
Horizontal mobility
Culture shock
17. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Social network
Intragenerational mobility
Ethnocentrism
Religious rituals
18. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Social interaction
Industrial society
Underclass
Activity theory
19. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Face-work
Monogamy
Microsociology
Conflict perspective
20. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Equilibrium model
Monogamy
Social mobility
Law
21. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Pluralist model
Endogamy
Victimless crimes
Tracking
22. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Role conflict
Esteem
Impression management
23. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Urbanism
Innovation
Group
Sexism
24. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
World systems analysis
Postindustrial city
Formal social control
Downsizing
25. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Machismo
Familism
Instrumentality
Discrimination
26. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Vertical mobility
Role exit
Minority group
Experimental group
27. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Social network
Homophobia
Capitalism
Master status
28. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Formal organization
Obedience
Matrilineal descent
Folkways
29. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Crime
Personality
Globalization
Kinship
30. Salaries and wages.
Incidence
Income
Social institutions
Hypothesis
31. 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
Deviance
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Conformity
32. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Patrilineal descent
Sick role
Argot
Model or ideal minority
33. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Symbols
Gemeinschaft
Narcotizing dysfunction
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
34. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Postmodern society
Denomination
Obedience
Horticultural societies
35. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Affirmative action
Personality
Religious beliefs
Growth rate
36. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Contact hypothesis
E-commerce
Socialism
37. A three-member group.
Dysfunction
Folkways
Triad
Census
38. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Experimental group
Code of ethics
Population pyramid
Routine activities theory
39. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Role conflict
Qualitative research
Population pyramid
Religious experience
40. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Survey
Experiment
Apartheid
Objective method
41. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Achieved status
Relative poverty
Industrial city
Quantitative research
42. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Small group
Ethnic group
Religious experience
Formal organization
43. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Correlation
Cultural transmission
Postmodern society
Preindustrial city
44. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Differential association
Industrial society
Endogamy
Nonmaterial culture
45. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Informal economy
Intergenerational mobility
Ethnic group
Folkways
46. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Intragenerational mobility
Social science
Demography
Formal organization
47. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Sociology
Ascribed status
Mores
Scientific method
48. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Correlation
Birthrate
Victimization surveys
Natural science
49. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Looking-glass self
Primary group
Sanctions
Gender roles
50. The incidence of death in a given population.
Bourgeoisie
Anticipatory socialization
Mortality rate
Sexual harassment