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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Validity
Rites of passage
Preindustrial city
Evolutionary theory
2. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Elite model
Anti-Semitism
Agrarian society
Achieved status
3. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Issei
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Genocide
Esteem
4. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Social network
Cultural relativism
Socialization
Reliability
5. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Mass media
Role taking
Influence
Credentialism
6. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Peter principle
Victimless crimes
Victimization surveys
Contact hypothesis
7. 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
Social mobility
Morbidity rates
Egalitarian family
8. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Generalized others
Anomie
Charismatic authority
Sick role
9. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Impression management
Power
Code of ethics
Mass media
10. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Ethnography
Values
Birthrate
Negotiated order
11. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Life chances
Law
Total fertility rate (TFR)
12. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Out-group
Defended neighborhood
Class
Control variable
13. 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.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Labeling theory
Natural science
Ascribed status
14. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Rites of passage
Material culture
Defended neighborhood
Cultural relativism
15. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
False consciousness
Role taking
Social structure
Agrarian society
16. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Manifest functions
Extended family
Impression management
Verstehen
17. The state of being related to others.
Kinship
Social movements
Social control
Status
18. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Argot
Adoption
Role conflict
Social network
19. 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.
Resocialization
Correspondence principle
Agrarian society
Face-work
20. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Labor unions
Amalgamation
Sociological imagination
Ethnography
21. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Terrorism
Socialism
Slavery
Class system
22. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Victimless crimes
Value neutrality
Polygyny
Segregation
23. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Religious experience
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Death rate
Growth rate
24. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
McDonaldization
Politics
Sexual harassment
Experimental group
25. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Social structure
Alienation
Sociological imagination
Reference group
26. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Human relations approach
Innovation
Segregation
Voluntary associations
27. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Deviance
Normal accidents
Experiment
Folkways
28. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Generalized others
Ethnography
Primary group
29. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Culture
Social structure
Face-work
Sacred
30. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Endogamy
Causal logic
Formal social control
White-collar crime
31. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Sect
Egalitarian family
Ascribed status
Relative deprivation
32. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Role conflict
False consciousness
Segregation
33. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Interview
Colonialism
Legal-rational authority
Hunting-and-gathering society
34. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Significant others
Pluralist model
Experimental group
Established sect
35. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Endogamy
Primary group
Megalopolis
Verstehen
36. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Assimilation
Sexism
White-collar crime
Creationism
37. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Relative deprivation
Cognitive theory of development
Argot
38. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Dramaturgical approach
Nonverbal communication
Control theory
Narcotizing dysfunction
39. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Prevalence
Functionalist perspective
Teacher-expectancy effect
Cognitive theory of development
40. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Gatekeeping
Routine activities theory
Cultural universals
Equilibrium model
41. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Resocialization
Community
Ecclesia
42. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Goal displacement
Small group
Politics
Rites of passage
43. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Qualitative research
Cult
Anti-Semitism
Established sect
44. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Luddites
Economic system
Amalgamation
Questionnaire
45. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Iron law of oligarchy
Norms
Mass media
Industrial city
46. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Politics
Machismo
Natural science
Relative deprivation
47. The incidence of death in a given population.
Luddites
Mortality rate
Role exit
Culture
48. 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.
Telecommuters
Human relations approach
Achieved status
Opinion leader
49. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Culture lag
Stratification
Counterculture
Observation
50. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Capitalism
Subculture
Contact hypothesis
Fertility