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CLEP Sociology
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1. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Macrosociology
Crime
Creationism
Vertical mobility
2. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total institutions
Defended neighborhood
Total fertility rate (TFR)
New social movements
3. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Triad
Suburb
Primary group
Language
4. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Class
Self
Interactionist perspective
Adoption
5. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Nuclear family
Primary group
Religious experience
6. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Formal norms
Ethnocentrism
Serial monogamy
Profane
7. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Birthrate
Apartheid
Social mobility
Slavery
8. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Anticipatory socialization
Gemeinschaft
Demographic transition
Formal organization
9. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Secondary group
McDonaldization
Agrarian society
Wealth
10. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Sexual harassment
Monopoly
Achieved status
Pluralist model
11. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Open system
Industrial city
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Incidence
12. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Suburb
Differential association
Unilinear evolutionary theory
13. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Alienation
Resource mobilization
Cognitive theory of development
Legal-rational authority
14. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Anomie
E-commerce
Interview
Natural science
15. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Ecclesia
Teacher-expectancy effect
Apartheid
New urban sociology
16. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Downsizing
Matriarchy
Infant mortality rate
17. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Peter principle
Role exit
Impression management
18. 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.
Activity theory
Nisei
Objective method
Telecommuters
19. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Objective method
Life expectancy
Extended family
Self
20. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Latent functions
Underclass
Argot
Labor unions
21. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Birthrate
Horizontal mobility
Apartheid
Cult
22. 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.
Homophobia
Familism
Gesellschaft
Organized crime
23. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Morbidity rates
Deviance
Proletariat
Sociology
24. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Stigma
Creationism
Code of ethics
Objective method
25. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Globalization
Social network
Folkways
Exogamy
26. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Theory
Castes
Sample
Power elite
27. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Religious experience
Nisei
Dependent variable
Morbidity rates
28. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Agrarian society
Resource mobilization
Tracking
Familism
29. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Iron law of oligarchy
Significant others
Interview
30. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Routine activities theory
Master status
New social movements
Segregation
31. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Minority group
Social inequality
Ageism
Status
32. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Polygyny
McDonaldization
Stereotypes
Independent variable
33. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Significant others
Diffusion
Anti-Semitism
Language
34. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Community
Neocolonialism
Pluralist model
35. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Elite model
Adoption
Social movements
Secondary group
36. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Impression management
Ecclesia
Pluralism
37. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Socialization
Relative deprivation
Goal displacement
Human ecology
38. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Charismatic authority
Polygyny
Bureaucratization
Affirmative action
39. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Correlation
Death rate
Social mobility
Invention
40. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Pluralist model
Social institutions
Assimilation
Traditional authority
41. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Religious beliefs
Horticultural societies
Labor unions
Industrial city
42. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Matriarchy
Sociological imagination
Subculture
Scientific management approach
43. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Surveillance function
Experiment
False consciousness
Manifest functions
44. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Iron law of oligarchy
Contact hypothesis
Unilinear evolutionary theory
45. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Small group
Goal displacement
Social movements
Anomie theory of deviance
46. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Organized crime
Sample
Absolute poverty
Esteem
47. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Polygyny
Control theory
Primary group
Dependent variable
48. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Human relations approach
Sociological imagination
Victimless crimes
False consciousness
49. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Microsociology
Black power
Homophobia
Victimization surveys
50. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Experimental group
Religion
Social mobility
Class consciousness