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CLEP Sociology
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1. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Society
Vital statistics
Out-group
Research design
2. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Social institutions
Socialization
Secondary group
Informal economy
3. 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.
Control theory
Power elite
Extended family
Degradation ceremony
4. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Racism
Sanctions
Theory
Norms
5. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Postindustrial society
Secondary group
Cultural relativism
Domestic partnership
6. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Role conflict
Denomination
E-commerce
Patriarchy
7. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Natural science
Religious beliefs
Status group
8. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Environmental justice
Secularization
Elite model
Folkways
9. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Hawthorne effect
Expressiveness
Personality
Causal logic
10. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Demographic transition
Victimization surveys
Role conflict
Polygyny
11. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Argot
Liberation theology
Observation
Politics
12. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Diffusion
Issei
Esteem
Evolutionary theory
13. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Legal-rational authority
Law
Ethnocentrism
Culture lag
14. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Growth rate
Industrial city
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Technology
15. 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
Absolute poverty
Incest taboo
Social role
16. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Labeling theory
Polygamy
Informal social control
Diffusion
17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Social institutions
Religion
Human ecology
Status group
18. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Bureaucratization
Values
Ascribed status
Protestant ethic
19. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Anti-Semitism
Random sample
Census
Values
20. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Ethnography
Environmental justice
Conformity
Impression management
21. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Labor unions
Stigma
Curanderismo
Ideal type
22. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Slavery
Monogamy
Operational definition
23. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Dependency theory
Monopoly
Qualitative research
New urban sociology
24. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Discovery
Deindustrialization
Environmental justice
Validity
25. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Affirmative action
Bureaucracy
Informal norms
Urbanism
26. 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.
Pluralist model
Globalization
Vested interests
Open system
27. Salaries and wages.
Matriarchy
Income
Secularization
Equilibrium model
28. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Patrilineal descent
Matrilineal descent
Sample
Degradation ceremony
29. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Sociological imagination
Open system
Exploitation theory
30. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Normal accidents
Prevalence
Reliability
Intergenerational mobility
31. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.
Objective method
Control variable
Pluralism
Gesellschaft
32. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Neocolonialism
Status group
Rites of passage
Dysfunction
33. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Qualitative research
Life expectancy
Symbols
Credentialism
34. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Sexism
Death rate
Status group
Multilinear evolutionary theory
35. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Religious experience
Telecommuters
Ethnocentrism
Infant mortality rate
36. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Religious experience
Multinational corporations
Extended family
37. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Life chances
Qualitative research
Matrilineal descent
Racism
38. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Closed system
Diffusion
Social network
Culture shock
39. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Gemeinschaft
Social control
Sick role
Negotiation
40. 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.
Role strain
Education
Expressiveness
Ecclesia
41. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Luddites
Ecclesia
Fertility
Closed system
42. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Role exit
Society
Hunting-and-gathering society
Peter principle
43. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Birthrate
Informal economy
Adoption
44. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Correlation
Anti-Semitism
Iron law of oligarchy
45. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Telecommuters
Resocialization
Tracking
Social structure
46. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Social control
Bourgeoisie
Protestant ethic
Prevalence
47. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Bilateral descent
Discrimination
Value neutrality
Sexual harassment
48. The state of being related to others.
Social mobility
Patriarchy
Religious experience
Kinship
49. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Symbols
Profane
Cultural universals
Serial monogamy
50. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Vital statistics
Familism
Looking-glass self