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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Governmental social control.
Human ecology
Affirmative action
Law
Stratification
2. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Mores
Tracking
Bilingualism
Feminist perspective
3. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Mass media
Instrumentality
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Anti-Semitism
4. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
New social movements
Luddites
Instrumentality
Education
5. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Achieved status
Defended neighborhood
Legal-rational authority
Total institutions
6. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Role conflict
Genocide
Conflict perspective
Industrial society
7. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Apartheid
Class
Significant others
Experimental group
8. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Anti-Semitism
Role conflict
Pluralist model
9. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Voluntary associations
Peter principle
Sexism
Macrosociology
10. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Gender roles
Sexual harassment
Castes
11. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Anticipatory socialization
Professional criminal
Polygamy
12. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Stereotypes
Infant mortality rate
Differential association
Hunting-and-gathering society
13. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Death rate
Charismatic authority
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Racism
14. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Defended neighborhood
Contact hypothesis
Technology
Expressiveness
15. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Surveillance function
Kinship
Instrumentality
Class system
16. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Scientific management approach
Homophobia
Invention
Triad
17. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Modernization
Evolutionary theory
Preindustrial city
Bourgeoisie
18. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Interview
Reference group
Gerontology
Socialization
19. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Scientific management approach
Disengagement theory
Racism
Total institutions
20. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Coalition
Alienation
Symbols
Intergenerational mobility
21. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Informal social control
Negotiation
Ethnocentrism
22. The incidence of death in a given population.
Mortality rate
Social movements
Colonialism
Reliability
23. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Horticultural societies
Morbidity rates
Labeling theory
Language
24. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Nonmaterial culture
Industrial society
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Counterculture
25. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Subculture
Esteem
Formal organization
Sexism
26. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Income
Bureaucracy
Total institutions
Fertility
27. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Glass ceiling
Degradation ceremony
Discovery
Social inequality
28. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Liberation theology
Trained incapacity
Labor unions
Dysfunction
29. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Vested interests
Sociobiology
Society
Status
30. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Sanctions
Amalgamation
Telecommuters
Culture
31. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Anomie theory of deviance
Vital statistics
Family
Subculture
32. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Language
Social interaction
Expressiveness
Cultural transmission
33. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Esteem
Gerontology
Serial monogamy
Population pyramid
34. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Socialization
Minority group
Equilibrium model
Dyad
35. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Charismatic authority
Polygamy
Sociobiology
Primary group
36. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Egalitarian family
Sociobiology
Invention
Preindustrial city
37. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Professional criminal
Terrorism
Discrimination
Sexism
38. 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
In-group
Contact hypothesis
Hidden curriculum
39. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Hawthorne effect
Exploitation theory
Labor unions
Prevalence
40. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Innovation
Religious experience
Proletariat
Income
41. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Matriarchy
Feminist perspective
Labor unions
Symbols
42. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Theory
Relative poverty
Ethnocentrism
Birthrate
43. The state of being related to others.
Socialization
Nonmaterial culture
Kinship
Total fertility rate (TFR)
44. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Negotiated order
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Control variable
45. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Gerontology
Cultural relativism
Rites of passage
Domestic partnership
46. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Secularization
Community
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Code of ethics
47. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Class system
Credentialism
Triad
Model or ideal minority
48. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Sociological imagination
Sexual harassment
Face-work
Megalopolis
49. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Nisei
Kinship
Observation
Victimization surveys
50. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Bilingualism
Postmodern society
Survey
Variable