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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Operational definition
Personality
Sanctions
Terrorism
2. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Wealth
Victimless crimes
Serial monogamy
Observation
3. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Horticultural societies
Dependency theory
Group
Industrial city
4. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Routine activities theory
Proletariat
Culture lag
Religious rituals
5. 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.
Interactionist perspective
Elite model
Sexism
Ecclesia
6. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Postmodern society
Industrial city
Ascribed status
Obedience
7. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Language
Gerontology
Anticipatory socialization
Population pyramid
8. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Qualitative research
Social constructionist perspective
Disengagement theory
Societal-reaction approach
9. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Polyandry
Endogamy
Opinion leader
Correlation
10. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Religious beliefs
Technology
Esteem
11. 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.
Objective method
Anomie theory of deviance
Horizontal mobility
Independent variable
12. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Stigma
Serial monogamy
Labor unions
Socialization
13. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Growth rate
Intragenerational mobility
Demography
14. 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.
Environmental justice
Feminist perspective
Minority group
Narcotizing dysfunction
15. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Bureaucratization
Culture
Norms
Formal organization
16. 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.
Personality
Health
Ecclesia
Alienation
17. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Classical theory
Hidden curriculum
Multiple-nuclei theory
18. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Force
Nuclear family
Value neutrality
Ethnic group
19. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Absolute poverty
Science
Gemeinschaft
Culture lag
20. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Familism
Machismo
Absolute poverty
21. Governmental social control.
Incidence
Experimental group
Law
Human relations approach
22. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Egalitarian family
Norms
Negotiation
Content analysis
23. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Pluralism
Colonialism
Growth rate
Globalization
24. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Esteem
Vital statistics
Death rate
Reference group
25. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Modernization
Personality
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Anti-Semitism
26. Another name for labeling theory.
Impression management
Societal-reaction approach
Capitalism
Proletariat
27. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Community
Professional criminal
Stigma
Negotiated order
28. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Language
Modernization theory
Labor unions
Triad
29. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Diffusion
Social interaction
Religious experience
Differential association
30. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Crime
Validity
Life chances
Mores
31. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Patriarchy
Macrosociology
Resource mobilization
Material culture
32. 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
Capitalism
Scientific method
Generalized others
33. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Anti-Semitism
Labor unions
Expressiveness
Incest taboo
34. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Incidence
Coalition
Stratification
35. 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.
False consciousness
Vested interests
Informal norms
Cultural relativism
36. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Education
Colonialism
Out-group
Polygamy
37. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Formal norms
Infant mortality rate
Societal-reaction approach
Deindustrialization
38. 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.
Social movements
Diffusion
Relative poverty
Pluralist model
39. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Role taking
Counterculture
Master status
Achieved status
40. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Life chances
Familism
Argot
Religion
41. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Formal social control
Dysfunction
Infant mortality rate
Extended family
42. 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.
Human relations approach
Sample
Urbanism
Issei
43. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Birthrate
Dominant ideology
Family
Minority group
44. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Out-group
Ageism
Income
Material culture
45. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Nonmaterial culture
Interview
Death rate
Surveillance function
46. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Counterculture
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Stratification
47. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Informal social control
Monogamy
Underclass
Racial group
48. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Deindustrialization
Demographic transition
Domestic partnership
Hawthorne effect
49. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Total institutions
Subculture
Conformity
Latent functions
50. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Vertical mobility
Anomie
Professional criminal
Diffusion