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CLEP Sociology
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1. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Culture shock
Narcotizing dysfunction
Social constructionist perspective
Force
2. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Capitalism
Megalopolis
Intergenerational mobility
3. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Force
Birthrate
Anti-Semitism
Formal organization
4. 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.
Objective method
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Gerontology
5. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Mass media
Survey
Surveillance function
Sexual harassment
6. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Hidden curriculum
Glass ceiling
White-collar crime
Morbidity rates
7. 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.
Nisei
Concentric-zone theory
Hunting-and-gathering society
Family
8. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Experiment
Monopoly
Status
Intergenerational mobility
9. Another name for labeling theory.
Mortality rate
Societal-reaction approach
Sociocultural evolution
Ecclesia
10. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Political socialization
Horizontal mobility
Triad
Voluntary associations
11. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Underclass
Narcotizing dysfunction
Face-work
Xenocentrism
12. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Credentialism
Polygamy
Urbanism
Religious rituals
13. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Assimilation
Independent variable
Sect
White-collar crime
14. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Pluralist model
Relative poverty
Hawthorne effect
Colonialism
15. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Routine activities theory
Laissez-faire
Minority group
Dependent variable
16. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Labeling theory
Sociocultural evolution
Organized crime
Exploitation theory
17. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Law
Curanderismo
Urbanism
18. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Gatekeeping
Sick role
Religious experience
Prejudice
19. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Environmental justice
Social constructionist perspective
Postindustrial society
Segregation
20. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Normal accidents
Role exit
Ascribed status
21. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Urbanism
Mores
Institutional discrimination
Multilinear evolutionary theory
22. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Elite model
Argot
Secondary group
Monogamy
23. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Self
Ethnocentrism
Culture lag
Class system
24. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Dramaturgical approach
Religious experience
Incidence
25. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Coalition
Conflict perspective
Absolute poverty
Stratification
26. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Human ecology
Legal-rational authority
Curanderismo
Proletariat
27. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Intragenerational mobility
Incest taboo
Familism
Charismatic authority
28. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Labor unions
Legal-rational authority
Hunting-and-gathering society
Credentialism
29. The state of being related to others.
Formal organization
Kinship
Reference group
Significant others
30. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Observation
Environmental justice
Social institutions
31. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Conformity
Matriarchy
Closed system
Postindustrial city
32. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Social control
Social epidemiology
Bourgeoisie
33. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Questionnaire
False consciousness
Small group
Voluntary associations
34. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Control group
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Xenocentrism
Experimental group
35. A three-member group.
Mores
Triad
Material culture
Sexism
36. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Industrial city
Cult
Conformity
Postmodern society
37. Governmental social control.
Socialism
Law
Informal economy
Prevalence
38. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Objective method
Status
Informal social control
Mass media
39. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Open system
Status group
Anticipatory socialization
Sacred
40. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Horticultural societies
Surveillance function
Extended family
Independent variable
41. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Modernization
Protestant ethic
Sect
Patriarchy
42. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Demography
Content analysis
Value neutrality
43. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Mores
Social structure
Organized crime
White-collar crime
44. 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.
Peter principle
Bilingualism
Social institutions
Material culture
45. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Generalized others
Formal social control
Achieved status
Zero population growth (ZPG)
46. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Morbidity rates
Prejudice
Extended family
47. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
Megalopolis
Nuclear family
Sick role
48. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential association
Industrial city
Correspondence principle
Life expectancy
49. 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.
Argot
McDonaldization
Innovation
Face-work
50. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Questionnaire
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Variable