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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 two-member group.
Ascribed status
Human relations approach
Dyad
Conformity
2. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Underclass
Sect
Natural science
Deindustrialization
3. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Authority
Activity theory
Counterculture
Political system
4. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Social inequality
Class system
Fertility
5. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Polygamy
Morbidity rates
Research design
Experiment
6. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Matrilineal descent
Status
Instrumentality
Tracking
7. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Polygamy
Force
Professional criminal
Content analysis
8. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Political socialization
Dysfunction
Sociobiology
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
9. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Anomie
Morbidity rates
Crime
Human ecology
10. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Apartheid
Causal logic
Bureaucratization
Innovation
11. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Model or ideal minority
Professional criminal
Polygamy
Stereotypes
12. General practices found in every culture.
Income
Triad
Cultural universals
Ethnic group
13. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Monopoly
Dominant ideology
Polyandry
Iron law of oligarchy
14. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Correlation
Language
Social institutions
Impression management
15. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Deviance
Conflict perspective
New urban sociology
Health
16. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Status
Victimless crimes
Impression management
Growth rate
17. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Degradation ceremony
Cultural relativism
Sexism
Telecommuters
18. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Argot
Counterculture
Society
19. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Demography
Human relations approach
Science
Macrosociology
20. 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.
Class system
False consciousness
Adoption
Achieved status
21. 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.
Institutional discrimination
Minority group
Sick role
Verstehen
22. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Mass media
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Social epidemiology
Diffusion
23. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Force
Socialism
Demographic transition
Nonverbal communication
24. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Influence
Horticultural societies
Matrilineal descent
Minority group
25. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Multinational corporations
Negotiation
Quantitative research
26. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Urban ecology
Apartheid
Religious beliefs
Primary group
27. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Human ecology
Bilateral descent
Research design
Innovation
28. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Industrial city
Variable
Classical theory
Hawthorne effect
29. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Voluntary associations
False consciousness
Life expectancy
Role conflict
30. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Negotiated order
Master status
Monogamy
Underclass
31. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Conformity
Gatekeeping
Affirmative action
Life chances
32. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Protestant ethic
Intragenerational mobility
Peter principle
Sociological imagination
33. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Kinship
Open system
Equilibrium model
34. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Crime
Sociology
Cultural relativism
Relative poverty
35. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Downsizing
Unilinear evolutionary theory
New social movements
Deindustrialization
36. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Hawthorne effect
Differential association
Homophobia
Megalopolis
37. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Negotiated order
Latent functions
Science
Degradation ceremony
38. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
McDonaldization
Anomie
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Secularization
39. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Symbols
Culture
Technology
Sociocultural evolution
40. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Macrosociology
Quantitative research
Formal norms
Symbols
41. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Social interaction
Demography
Life chances
Horizontal mobility
42. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Cultural transmission
Conformity
Urban ecology
Informal economy
43. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Domestic partnership
Interactionist perspective
Social movements
Social structure
44. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Latent functions
Agrarian society
Sick role
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
45. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Birthrate
Independent variable
Total institutions
Anti-Semitism
46. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Laissez-faire
Nisei
Demographic transition
Hunting-and-gathering society
47. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Social change
Postmodern society
Status group
Small group
48. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Ethnography
Issei
Dominant ideology
In-group
49. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Influence
Fertility
Cult
Environmental justice
50. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Expressiveness
Operational definition
Observation
Organized crime