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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 functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Innovation
Social mobility
Luddites
Modernization theory
2. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Sexism
Class
Organized crime
3. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Kinship
Gerontology
Social science
4. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Feminist perspective
Normal accidents
Surveillance function
Black power
5. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Social constructionist perspective
Anticipatory socialization
Sample
Opinion leader
6. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Birthrate
Prevalence
Content analysis
Informal economy
7. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Social inequality
Racial group
Correspondence principle
Postmodern society
8. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Genocide
Bureaucracy
False consciousness
Social inequality
9. 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.
Theory
Sociocultural evolution
McDonaldization
Death rate
10. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Face-work
Human ecology
Victimless crimes
Vested interests
11. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Cohabitation
Triad
Deindustrialization
12. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Social network
Creationism
Tracking
Negotiation
13. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Traditional authority
Class consciousness
Social network
Adoption
14. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Validity
Deindustrialization
Fertility
15. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Equilibrium model
Human ecology
Deindustrialization
Macrosociology
16. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Sect
Patrilineal descent
Labor unions
Cognitive theory of development
17. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Dysfunction
Affirmative action
Social structure
Social role
18. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Socialism
Multiple-nuclei theory
Mass media
Gatekeeping
19. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Anomie theory of deviance
Achieved status
Operational definition
Ethnic group
20. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Self
Hypothesis
Amalgamation
Second shift
21. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Rites of passage
Economic system
Health
Formal organization
22. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Face-work
Personality
Functionalist perspective
Social network
23. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Labor unions
Achieved status
Genocide
Nonverbal communication
24. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Preindustrial city
Environmental justice
Manifest functions
Random sample
25. 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.
Sociology
Defended neighborhood
New urban sociology
Suburb
26. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Sect
Questionnaire
Socialization
Sanctions
27. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Master status
Life chances
Ethnocentrism
28. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sociology
Sexism
Vertical mobility
McDonaldization
29. 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
Surveillance function
Sick role
Endogamy
30. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Cultural universals
In-group
Bourgeoisie
Class system
31. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Equilibrium model
Formal norms
White-collar crime
New social movements
32. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Rites of passage
Socialization
Sexual harassment
Defended neighborhood
33. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Labor unions
Nisei
Human relations approach
Experimental group
34. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
Interactionist perspective
Ethnic group
Gerontology
35. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Health
Social inequality
Crime
Role strain
36. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Postindustrial society
Terrorism
Hawthorne effect
In-group
37. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Informal social control
Contact hypothesis
Ascribed status
Innovation
38. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Diffusion
Matrilineal descent
Social control
Crime
39. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Defended neighborhood
Minority group
Morbidity rates
Genocide
40. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Out-group
Tracking
Counterculture
Mores
41. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Material culture
Population pyramid
Discovery
Homophobia
42. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Machismo
Life expectancy
Disengagement theory
Authority
43. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Exploitation theory
Extended family
Rites of passage
Apartheid
44. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Instrumentality
Formal social control
Nisei
Generalized others
45. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Relative poverty
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Egalitarian family
Dependency theory
46. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Stereotypes
Horizontal mobility
Mores
47. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Denomination
Rites of passage
Environmental justice
Dominant ideology
48. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Politics
Societal-reaction approach
Material culture
Religious experience
49. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Stigma
Profane
Voluntary associations
Discrimination
50. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Dependent variable
Instrumentality
Serial monogamy
Ethnocentrism