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CLEP Sociology
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1. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Environmental justice
Black power
Gesellschaft
Peter principle
2. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Megalopolis
Ethnocentrism
Science
Subculture
3. Governmental social control.
Intergenerational mobility
Multiple-nuclei theory
Law
Tracking
4. 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.
Bilingualism
Life chances
Folkways
Organized crime
5. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Coalition
Obedience
Instrumentality
World systems analysis
6. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Technology
Conflict perspective
Voluntary associations
Sacred
7. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Social mobility
Experiment
Causal logic
Religion
8. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Horticultural societies
Open system
Role strain
Gemeinschaft
9. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Out-group
Matriarchy
Experimental group
Intergenerational mobility
10. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Economic system
Informal norms
Postmodern society
Sacred
11. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Cultural universals
Class system
Conformity
12. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Rites of passage
Absolute poverty
Natural science
Cohabitation
13. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Stigma
Postindustrial city
Opinion leader
14. 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.
Sociobiology
Relative poverty
Politics
Degradation ceremony
15. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Kinship
Ageism
Influence
Negotiation
16. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Castes
Bureaucratization
Sacred
Values
17. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Terrorism
Glass ceiling
Reference group
Hawthorne effect
18. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Sick role
Industrial city
Interview
Social role
19. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Assimilation
Cultural universals
Social control
Bilingualism
20. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Society
Subculture
Societal-reaction approach
Social structure
21. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Prejudice
Socialization
Health
Reference group
22. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Interview
Formal norms
Model or ideal minority
Anomie
23. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Gatekeeping
Folkways
Religious experience
Zero population growth (ZPG)
24. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Kinship
Master status
Proletariat
Industrial society
25. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
Health
Verstehen
Extended family
26. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Value neutrality
Normal accidents
Bourgeoisie
Single-parent families
27. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Gesellschaft
Patriarchy
Model or ideal minority
Formal norms
28. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Modernization
Latent functions
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Elite model
29. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Self
Economic system
Interactionist perspective
Horizontal mobility
30. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Stereotypes
Castes
Voluntary associations
Homophobia
31. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Societal-reaction approach
Hypothesis
Proletariat
32. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Negotiated order
Patrilineal descent
Iron law of oligarchy
33. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Power elite
Vested interests
Bilingualism
34. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Human ecology
Egalitarian family
Role conflict
Functionalist perspective
35. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
False consciousness
Cult
Socialism
Adoption
36. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Demography
Classical theory
Goal displacement
In-group
37. Salaries and wages.
Sanctions
Colonialism
Patrilineal descent
Income
38. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Health
Bureaucratization
Demographic transition
Tracking
39. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Operational definition
Discovery
Agrarian society
40. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Prejudice
Income
Religious beliefs
41. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Innovation
Gerontology
Looking-glass self
Conflict perspective
42. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Secondary group
Ethnic group
Survey
Trained incapacity
43. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Societal-reaction approach
Group
Informal economy
44. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Prestige
Formal social control
Qualitative research
Rites of passage
45. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Dyad
Social control
Self
Informal social control
46. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Dominant ideology
Esteem
Nonmaterial culture
Control variable
47. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Latent functions
Role taking
Sociocultural evolution
Social institutions
48. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Experimental group
Intergenerational mobility
Deindustrialization
Nuclear family
49. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Absolute poverty
Social role
Serial monogamy
Exogamy
50. 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.
Open system
Society
Cohabitation
Power elite