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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. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Cult
Socialism
Religious beliefs
Family
2. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Multinational corporations
Intragenerational mobility
Industrial society
Rites of passage
3. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Sick role
Secondary analysis
Self
Industrial society
4. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Power elite
Racism
Argot
Patrilineal descent
5. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Credentialism
Observation
Multiple-nuclei theory
Culture
6. 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.
Political system
Religious experience
Routine activities theory
Human ecology
7. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Suburb
Ethnocentrism
Megalopolis
Goal displacement
8. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Luddites
Formal norms
Discovery
Institutional discrimination
9. The ways in which people respond to one another.
World systems analysis
Social interaction
McDonaldization
Dependent variable
10. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Social institutions
Segregation
Cohabitation
Familism
11. The scientific study of population.
Monopoly
Family
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Demography
12. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Authority
Terrorism
Demography
Growth rate
13. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sociology
Impression management
Colonialism
Informal social control
14. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Industrial city
Counterculture
Feminist perspective
Quantitative research
15. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Castes
New social movements
Bourgeoisie
Normal accidents
16. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Cultural universals
Force
Narcotizing dysfunction
17. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Nisei
Cultural relativism
Sick role
Formal social control
18. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Expressiveness
Code of ethics
Nisei
Infant mortality rate
19. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Income
Affirmative action
Conflict perspective
Patriarchy
20. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Ascribed status
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Gemeinschaft
Amalgamation
21. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Urbanism
Absolute poverty
Norms
Class system
22. 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.
Modernization
Validity
Community
Bilingualism
23. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Castes
Political system
Sexism
Serial monogamy
24. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Gender roles
Control theory
Politics
Terrorism
25. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Social mobility
Iron law of oligarchy
Census
Subculture
26. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Horizontal mobility
Science
Suburb
Expressiveness
27. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Religious experience
Prejudice
Narcotizing dysfunction
Unilinear evolutionary theory
28. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Glass ceiling
Reliability
Macrosociology
Affirmative action
29. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Formal norms
Cult
Correspondence principle
30. 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.
Sect
Slavery
New urban sociology
Familism
31. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Achieved status
Social constructionist perspective
Ageism
Reliability
32. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Discrimination
Class consciousness
Sociobiology
Dependency theory
33. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Charismatic authority
Operational definition
Esteem
Wealth
34. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Counterculture
Social role
Castes
Deviance
35. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Second shift
Religious beliefs
Anticipatory socialization
Incest taboo
36. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Serial monogamy
Mass media
Trained incapacity
Victimless crimes
37. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Self
Invention
Goal displacement
Fertility
38. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Rites of passage
Environmental justice
Dramaturgical approach
Iron law of oligarchy
39. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Amalgamation
Gerontology
Economic system
Manifest functions
40. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Bilateral descent
Triad
Resource mobilization
Social structure
41. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
New social movements
Interview
Postmodern society
Ecclesia
42. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Labeling theory
Influence
Argot
Religion
43. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Multinational corporations
Social movements
Deindustrialization
44. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Horticultural societies
Underclass
Income
Disengagement theory
45. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Polygyny
Coalition
Impression management
Intergenerational mobility
46. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Patrilineal descent
Gemeinschaft
Anomie
Invention
47. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Socialism
Religious beliefs
Operational definition
Megalopolis
48. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Social mobility
Manifest functions
Agrarian society
Nonmaterial culture
49. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Correlation
Research design
Causal logic
Nonmaterial culture
50. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Patrilineal descent
Gatekeeping
Horticultural societies
Interactionist perspective