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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. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Gerontology
Slavery
Sexual harassment
Quantitative research
2. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Terrorism
Morbidity rates
Absolute poverty
Life chances
3. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Anomie theory of deviance
Luddites
Trained incapacity
Religion
4. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Single-parent families
Bilateral descent
Amalgamation
5. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Sociocultural evolution
Political system
Resource mobilization
Folkways
6. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Organized crime
Differential association
Master status
False consciousness
7. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Vertical mobility
Model or ideal minority
Demography
Environmental justice
8. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Norms
Subculture
Incest taboo
Mass media
9. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Control variable
Nonverbal communication
Independent variable
Stereotypes
10. A two-member group.
Theory
Dyad
Closed system
Demographic transition
11. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Luddites
Sect
Formal norms
Anomie
12. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Hawthorne effect
Protestant ethic
Relative poverty
Bilingualism
13. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Bilingualism
Status group
Code of ethics
14. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Verstehen
Cohabitation
Natural science
15. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Goal displacement
Exogamy
Variable
Role conflict
16. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Census
Demographic transition
Role taking
Death rate
17. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Verstehen
Deviance
Bureaucratization
Matriarchy
18. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Mores
Evolutionary theory
Laissez-faire
Dyad
19. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Out-group
Social change
Segregation
Monogamy
20. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Social structure
Serial monogamy
Sect
Postindustrial society
21. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Control variable
Culture shock
Bilateral descent
Postmodern society
22. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Social change
Proletariat
Secularization
23. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Industrial city
Class
Teacher-expectancy effect
Significant others
24. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Instrumentality
Victimization surveys
Established sect
Independent variable
25. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Wealth
Socialization
Goal displacement
Crime
26. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Informal social control
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Sexual harassment
Reference group
27. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Labor unions
Slavery
Anticipatory socialization
Experimental group
28. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Rites of passage
Concentric-zone theory
29. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Absolute poverty
Symbols
Gesellschaft
Model or ideal minority
30. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Sexism
New urban sociology
Machismo
Endogamy
31. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Terrorism
Symbols
Cohabitation
Life expectancy
32. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Monopoly
Vested interests
Invention
Secondary group
33. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Secondary group
Profane
Adoption
Morbidity rates
34. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Folkways
Human ecology
Dramaturgical approach
35. 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.
Prevalence
Multiple-nuclei theory
Gerontology
Ethnography
36. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Science
Pluralist model
Bureaucratization
Terrorism
37. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Sample
Vested interests
Social role
Content analysis
38. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Multinational corporations
Informal economy
Content analysis
Gatekeeping
39. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Incest taboo
Negotiated order
Causal logic
Cultural relativism
40. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Social movements
Normal accidents
Modernization
Role conflict
41. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Macrosociology
Social control
Reliability
Gerontology
42. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Achieved status
Nisei
Life chances
Alienation
43. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Material culture
In-group
Apartheid
Genocide
44. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Interview
Underclass
Symbols
Castes
45. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Industrial society
Political system
Teacher-expectancy effect
Class consciousness
46. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
White-collar crime
Dyad
Extended family
Ageism
47. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Institutional discrimination
Nuclear family
Modernization
48. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Iron law of oligarchy
Birthrate
Reliability
49. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Out-group
Second shift
Institutional discrimination
Hidden curriculum
50. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Authority
Validity
Narcotizing dysfunction