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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Pluralism
Cognitive theory of development
Material culture
Innovation
2. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Underclass
Society
Control variable
Normal accidents
3. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Social inequality
Total institutions
Birthrate
Terrorism
4. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Class
Coalition
Force
Role exit
5. 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.
Peter principle
Human relations approach
Community
Open system
6. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Racism
McDonaldization
Megalopolis
Cultural transmission
7. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Degradation ceremony
Random sample
Equilibrium model
Institutional discrimination
8. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Society
Personality
Scientific method
Social network
9. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Sample
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Sociological imagination
Census
10. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Content analysis
Alienation
Exogamy
Labeling theory
11. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Looking-glass self
Horticultural societies
Disengagement theory
Sanctions
12. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Nonverbal communication
Equilibrium model
Fertility
Symbols
13. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Survey
Incest taboo
Formal organization
Rites of passage
14. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
Differential association
Open system
Dependent variable
15. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Primary group
New urban sociology
Nuclear family
Discovery
16. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Kinship
Dysfunction
Incidence
Primary group
17. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Surveillance function
Deindustrialization
Vested interests
Health
18. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Closed system
Ecclesia
Political socialization
Racial group
19. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Anticipatory socialization
Bilateral descent
E-commerce
Reference group
20. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Class system
Voluntary associations
Stigma
Multinational corporations
21. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Denomination
Argot
Adoption
Hidden curriculum
22. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Reliability
Industrial city
Social change
Horticultural societies
23. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Functionalist perspective
Income
Secondary analysis
24. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Manifest functions
Homophobia
Deindustrialization
Socialization
25. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Social movements
Nonmaterial culture
Content analysis
Slavery
26. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Politics
Preindustrial city
Status group
Sociocultural evolution
27. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Black power
Bureaucratization
Gatekeeping
28. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
False consciousness
Segregation
Horizontal mobility
Latent functions
29. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Tracking
Politics
Extended family
Nonmaterial culture
30. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Cult
Operational definition
Force
Anomie theory of deviance
31. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Defended neighborhood
Glass ceiling
Bureaucratization
32. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Significant others
Mass media
Correlation
33. A three-member group.
Reference group
Triad
Religious beliefs
Endogamy
34. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Growth rate
Relative deprivation
Authority
Cult
35. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Segregation
Victimization surveys
Invention
Technology
36. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Social movements
Verstehen
Class
Family
37. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Life chances
Gender roles
Prejudice
Control group
38. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Social mobility
Demographic transition
World systems analysis
Zero population growth (ZPG)
39. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Deviance
Modernization theory
Suburb
Equilibrium model
40. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Gesellschaft
Charismatic authority
Peter principle
Ethnic group
41. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Reliability
Looking-glass self
Resource mobilization
Impression management
42. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Language
Domestic partnership
Culture lag
Scientific method
43. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Social inequality
Politics
Socialization
Resocialization
44. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Impression management
Role taking
Macrosociology
Gesellschaft
45. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Surveillance function
Macrosociology
Racism
Xenocentrism
46. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Routine activities theory
Cult
Small group
Ethnocentrism
47. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Culture shock
Endogamy
Social epidemiology
Human relations approach
48. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Denomination
Cognitive theory of development
Alienation
Religious experience
49. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Stratification
Prestige
Status
Ideal type
50. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Opinion leader
Sick role
Role taking
Pluralist model