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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Growth rate
Capitalism
Polygyny
2. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Status group
Sociology
Slavery
Profane
3. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Macrosociology
Census
Conflict perspective
Domestic partnership
4. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Voluntary associations
Religious experience
E-commerce
Postmodern society
5. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Social mobility
Pluralist model
Economic system
Incidence
6. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Master status
New social movements
Social structure
Sociobiology
7. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Polyandry
Postindustrial city
Social movements
Personality
8. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Verstehen
Denomination
Disengagement theory
Expressiveness
9. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Polygamy
Dysfunction
Established sect
Single-parent families
10. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Pluralist model
Diffusion
Extended family
Folkways
11. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Extended family
Nonverbal communication
Rites of passage
Hunting-and-gathering society
12. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Traditional authority
Anomie theory of deviance
Gesellschaft
Nisei
13. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Human relations approach
Mores
Credentialism
Hidden curriculum
14. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Deviance
Traditional authority
Social structure
Code of ethics
15. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Social control
Correlation
Secondary group
Bilingualism
16. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Globalization
Anticipatory socialization
Mores
Suburb
17. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Life chances
Scientific method
Pluralism
Influence
18. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Second shift
Traditional authority
Informal social control
Adoption
19. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
In-group
Sociobiology
Validity
Proletariat
20. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Authority
Independent variable
In-group
Folkways
21. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Racial group
Life chances
Conformity
Second shift
22. 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.
Income
World systems analysis
Achieved status
Norms
23. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
McDonaldization
Language
Ethnocentrism
Charismatic authority
24. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Role taking
Polygyny
Control theory
Community
25. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Multinational corporations
Bureaucratization
Dramaturgical approach
Subculture
26. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Second shift
Environmental justice
Qualitative research
Face-work
27. A two-member group.
Ideal type
Dyad
Hawthorne effect
Routine activities theory
28. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Dyad
Family
Human ecology
Social science
29. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Secondary group
Matriarchy
Conformity
Denomination
30. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Capitalism
Domestic partnership
Stereotypes
Cult
31. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Macrosociology
Suburb
Evolutionary theory
Victimization surveys
32. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Obedience
Underclass
Denomination
Social role
33. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Wealth
Counterculture
Negotiated order
Interactionist perspective
34. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Culture lag
Exploitation theory
Religion
Dramaturgical approach
35. 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.
Monopoly
Social inequality
Organized crime
Religion
36. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Bureaucracy
Luddites
Formal organization
Alienation
37. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Iron law of oligarchy
Reliability
Credentialism
Genocide
38. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Formal organization
Growth rate
Curanderismo
Racism
39. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Authority
Survey
McDonaldization
Downsizing
40. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Intragenerational mobility
Voluntary associations
Mores
False consciousness
41. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Feminist perspective
Agrarian society
Modernization
Sexism
42. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Dependency theory
Gender roles
Resource mobilization
Multilinear evolutionary theory
43. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Ethnography
Differential association
Denomination
Slavery
44. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Modernization
Equilibrium model
Discrimination
45. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Anti-Semitism
Laissez-faire
Scientific method
Concentric-zone theory
46. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Mass media
Verstehen
Class
Rites of passage
47. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Neocolonialism
Personality
Social institutions
Achieved status
48. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Discovery
Power
Contact hypothesis
Legal-rational authority
49. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Sexual harassment
Norms
Curanderismo
Social mobility
50. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Social epidemiology
Anticipatory socialization
Infant mortality rate