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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Intragenerational mobility
Labeling theory
Amalgamation
Negotiation
2. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Religious rituals
Informal social control
Ethnic group
3. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Socialism
Wealth
Patrilineal descent
Polyandry
4. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Correlation
Sociological imagination
Counterculture
Domestic partnership
5. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Survey
Correspondence principle
Gerontology
Birthrate
6. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Underclass
Agrarian society
Validity
Degradation ceremony
7. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Expressiveness
Goal displacement
Hunting-and-gathering society
New social movements
8. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Family
Generalized others
Polygamy
Research design
9. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sociology
Urbanism
Genocide
Achieved status
10. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Latent functions
Sacred
Urban ecology
Feminist perspective
11. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Dyad
Luddites
Gender roles
In-group
12. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Routine activities theory
Generalized others
Downsizing
World systems analysis
13. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Victimization surveys
Social change
Negotiated order
Ethnocentrism
14. According to
Religion
Class
Social structure
Iron law of oligarchy
15. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Assimilation
Ageism
Demography
Established sect
16. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Vital statistics
Crime
Mass media
Social interaction
17. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Theory
Sociological imagination
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Deindustrialization
18. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Questionnaire
Variable
Feminist perspective
Mortality rate
19. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Assimilation
Liberation theology
Urbanism
20. General practices found in every culture.
Status group
Cultural universals
Mores
Vertical mobility
21. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Sociology
Globalization
Black power
Degradation ceremony
22. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Culture lag
Sexism
Social network
Anomie theory of deviance
23. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Cult
Genocide
Relative deprivation
New social movements
24. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Bureaucracy
Role conflict
Traditional authority
Formal norms
25. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Significant others
Latent functions
Creationism
26. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Legal-rational authority
Familism
In-group
27. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Content analysis
Environmental justice
Rites of passage
Polyandry
28. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Life chances
Social institutions
Rites of passage
29. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Feminist perspective
Domestic partnership
Racism
Social structure
30. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Ethnocentrism
Dominant ideology
Economic system
Gesellschaft
31. 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.
Adoption
Culture shock
Resocialization
Prejudice
32. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Legal-rational authority
Mortality rate
Second shift
Relative poverty
33. A two-member group.
Social movements
Closed system
Dyad
E-commerce
34. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Modernization theory
Black power
Anomie theory of deviance
Zero population growth (ZPG)
35. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Legal-rational authority
Fertility
Social interaction
Master status
36. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Role exit
Extended family
Apartheid
37. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Gatekeeping
Law
Postmodern society
38. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Manifest functions
Latent functions
Experimental group
Obedience
39. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Castes
Scientific management approach
Industrial city
Glass ceiling
40. 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.
Victimless crimes
Verstehen
Impression management
Modernization theory
41. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Issei
Sociobiology
Experimental group
Formal organization
42. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Correlation
Reference group
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Invention
43. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Postindustrial city
Mass media
Formal organization
Role conflict
44. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Rites of passage
Denomination
Multiple-nuclei theory
Force
45. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Socialism
Labeling theory
Hunting-and-gathering society
46. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Material culture
Conflict perspective
Looking-glass self
Intergenerational mobility
47. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Victimless crimes
Control theory
Ideal type
Machismo
48. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Infant mortality rate
Law
Face-work
Secondary group
49. The state of being related to others.
Bureaucracy
Fertility
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Kinship
50. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Glass ceiling
Black power
Multinational corporations
Rites of passage