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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 marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Urbanism
Out-group
Values
Serial monogamy
2. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Human ecology
Community
Small group
Bilateral descent
3. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Profane
Negotiated order
Norms
Social interaction
4. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.
Society
Science
Microsociology
Postmodern society
5. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Legal-rational authority
Underclass
Politics
Gerontology
6. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Absolute poverty
Achieved status
Formal organization
Dramaturgical approach
7. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Authority
Mass media
Power
8. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Goal displacement
Globalization
Social structure
Megalopolis
9. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Bureaucracy
Serial monogamy
Expressiveness
Population pyramid
10. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Ethnocentrism
Sociobiology
Deviance
Qualitative research
11. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Polyandry
Prestige
Protestant ethic
Sociology
12. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Normal accidents
Resource mobilization
Labor unions
Random sample
13. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Bilateral descent
Folkways
Endogamy
Horticultural societies
14. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Monogamy
E-commerce
Apartheid
Class consciousness
15. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Morbidity rates
Growth rate
Force
Looking-glass self
16. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Hawthorne effect
Value neutrality
White-collar crime
Natural science
17. 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.
Horizontal mobility
Total institutions
Proletariat
Postmodern society
18. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Symbols
Correlation
Quantitative research
Religion
19. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Formal organization
Material culture
Politics
Tracking
20. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Amalgamation
Nonmaterial culture
Social inequality
Society
21. 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
Stratification
Glass ceiling
Technology
22. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Conflict perspective
Sacred
Survey
Political socialization
23. 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.
Stratification
Religious experience
Polygyny
Luddites
24. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Incest taboo
Discovery
Theory
Vertical mobility
25. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Quantitative research
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Industrial city
Folkways
26. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Labeling theory
Questionnaire
Interview
Luddites
27. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Capitalism
Prevalence
Profane
Sociocultural evolution
28. 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.
McDonaldization
Observation
Extended family
Folkways
29. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Modernization theory
Evolutionary theory
Scientific management approach
Culture
30. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Political system
Religious beliefs
Hypothesis
Authority
31. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Demography
Infant mortality rate
Matrilineal descent
Stereotypes
32. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Traditional authority
Social role
Deviance
Sanctions
33. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Polygyny
Endogamy
Sociology
Norms
34. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Power elite
Peter principle
Elite model
Laissez-faire
35. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Gesellschaft
Victimization surveys
Quantitative research
Sacred
36. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Defended neighborhood
Operational definition
Culture shock
Assimilation
37. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Amalgamation
Liberation theology
Value neutrality
38. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Coalition
Trained incapacity
Racial group
39. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Latent functions
Opinion leader
Exploitation theory
Social science
40. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Bilateral descent
Prejudice
Material culture
Stereotypes
41. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Mores
Globalization
Economic system
Correlation
42. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Familism
Charismatic authority
Matriarchy
Reference group
43. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
E-commerce
Serial monogamy
Anomie
Functionalist perspective
44. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Causal logic
Formal organization
Human relations approach
Self
45. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Luddites
Gemeinschaft
Social epidemiology
Differential association
46. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Legal-rational authority
Family
Role exit
47. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Ideal type
Curanderismo
Personality
48. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Political socialization
Mortality rate
Family
Causal logic
49. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Segregation
Amalgamation
Social interaction
Social epidemiology
50. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Capitalism
Esteem
Argot
Absolute poverty