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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 form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Classical theory
Laissez-faire
Birthrate
Routine activities theory
2. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Egalitarian family
Stereotypes
Bilateral descent
Demography
3. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Subculture
Impression management
Endogamy
Variable
4. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Established sect
Power
Minority group
Value neutrality
5. A three-member group.
Nisei
Multiple-nuclei theory
Triad
Incest taboo
6. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
Wealth
Control variable
Objective method
7. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Closed system
Population pyramid
Innovation
Ascribed status
8. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Content analysis
Suburb
Force
Dominant ideology
9. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Verstehen
Sociocultural evolution
Professional criminal
Science
10. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Quantitative research
Contact hypothesis
Power elite
Black power
11. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Formal norms
Terrorism
Class consciousness
Birthrate
12. 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.
Matrilineal descent
Operational definition
Interview
Agrarian society
13. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.
Anomie theory of deviance
Social change
Traditional authority
Normal accidents
14. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Slavery
Research design
Equilibrium model
Underclass
15. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Values
Environmental justice
Prestige
16. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Pluralist model
Social structure
Natural science
Culture lag
17. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Informal social control
Victimization surveys
Opinion leader
Culture lag
18. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Law
In-group
Horizontal mobility
Profane
19. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Hypothesis
Profane
Role taking
Mass media
20. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Homophobia
Secondary group
Sociocultural evolution
Institutional discrimination
21. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Socialism
Research design
Nisei
Societal-reaction approach
22. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Deviance
Out-group
Serial monogamy
Role conflict
23. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Nonmaterial culture
Religion
Dependent variable
Zero population growth (ZPG)
24. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Total institutions
Technology
Disengagement theory
Iron law of oligarchy
25. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Status
Incidence
Familism
Education
26. 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.
Questionnaire
Reliability
Peter principle
World systems analysis
27. 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
Prejudice
Latent functions
Technology
28. Salaries and wages.
Infant mortality rate
Income
Apartheid
Experiment
29. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Cohabitation
Polygyny
Bilingualism
Anticipatory socialization
30. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Charismatic authority
Ethnography
Infant mortality rate
Dyad
31. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Experimental group
Esteem
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Informal norms
32. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Religious rituals
Death rate
Globalization
Interview
33. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Segregation
Sociocultural evolution
Black power
Monopoly
34. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Total institutions
Education
Infant mortality rate
Stereotypes
35. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Sick role
Power
Opinion leader
Group
36. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Census
Deviance
Formal organization
Telecommuters
37. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Bureaucratization
Model or ideal minority
Cult
Political socialization
38. 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.
Verstehen
Nonverbal communication
Power
Microsociology
39. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Legal-rational authority
World systems analysis
Open system
Institutional discrimination
40. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Social movements
Machismo
Dominant ideology
Multinational corporations
41. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Authority
Reference group
Assimilation
Tracking
42. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Culture shock
Feminist perspective
Macrosociology
Equilibrium model
43. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Power elite
Polygyny
Dramaturgical approach
44. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Capitalism
Role conflict
Formal norms
Operational definition
45. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Patrilineal descent
Societal-reaction approach
Opinion leader
Esteem
46. 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.
Socialism
McDonaldization
Survey
Ecclesia
47. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Social interaction
Glass ceiling
Teacher-expectancy effect
McDonaldization
48. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Informal norms
Polygamy
Invention
Bilateral descent
49. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Laissez-faire
Content analysis
Agrarian society
Denomination
50. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Evolutionary theory
Machismo
Nisei
Ageism