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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 factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Control variable
Laissez-faire
Social role
Independent variable
2. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Mortality rate
Stigma
Negotiated order
Law
3. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Xenocentrism
Degradation ceremony
Objective method
Monogamy
4. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Trained incapacity
Prejudice
Bilateral descent
Mass media
5. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Dominant ideology
Value neutrality
Racial group
Stereotypes
6. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Latent functions
Bilateral descent
Nuclear family
Multinational corporations
7. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Charismatic authority
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Resource mobilization
Sect
8. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Sociological imagination
Pluralist model
Status
Sociobiology
9. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Domestic partnership
Informal norms
Horticultural societies
Globalization
10. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Content analysis
Norms
Hypothesis
Postindustrial society
11. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Tracking
Theory
Ideal type
Black power
12. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Concentric-zone theory
Culture shock
Social constructionist perspective
Norms
13. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Routine activities theory
Hunting-and-gathering society
Labeling theory
Assimilation
14. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Activity theory
New urban sociology
Quantitative research
Master status
15. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Adoption
Social change
Independent variable
Postindustrial society
16. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Law
Power elite
Colonialism
Sick role
17. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Random sample
Glass ceiling
Castes
Sociological imagination
18. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Code of ethics
Politics
Impression management
Variable
19. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Absolute poverty
Hidden curriculum
Globalization
Growth rate
20. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Instrumentality
Socialism
Obedience
Laissez-faire
21. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Society
Bourgeoisie
Prevalence
22. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Scientific method
Exogamy
Routine activities theory
Secularization
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.
Influence
Religious experience
Status group
Mortality rate
24. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Sexism
Power
Social institutions
Laissez-faire
25. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Self
Bureaucratization
Classical theory
Invention
26. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Social inequality
Role strain
Mass media
Terrorism
27. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Goal displacement
Hypothesis
Symbols
Reference group
28. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Exploitation theory
Relative deprivation
29. 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.
Sexual harassment
Black power
Sanctions
Social science
30. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Telecommuters
Closed system
Survey
Profane
31. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Surveillance function
Out-group
Class system
Control theory
32. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
False consciousness
Underclass
Monopoly
Ethnography
33. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Urban ecology
Questionnaire
Minority group
Power elite
34. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Credentialism
Prevalence
Interactionist perspective
Sociology
35. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Class
Intragenerational mobility
Macrosociology
Slavery
36. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Triad
Morbidity rates
Population pyramid
Open system
37. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Preindustrial city
Absolute poverty
Control group
Teacher-expectancy effect
38. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Segregation
Closed system
Social science
White-collar crime
39. According to
Generalized others
Religion
Research design
Instrumentality
40. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Postmodern society
Sociological imagination
Professional criminal
Bilingualism
41. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Horizontal mobility
Coalition
Correspondence principle
Differential association
42. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Social network
Conformity
Interview
Latent functions
43. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Environmental justice
Tracking
Open system
Formal organization
44. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Pluralist model
Census
Incidence
Cognitive theory of development
45. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Institutional discrimination
Denomination
Creationism
Equilibrium model
46. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Formal organization
Slavery
Code of ethics
Vested interests
47. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Influence
In-group
Random sample
Hawthorne effect
48. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Nonmaterial culture
Theory
Gender roles
Nuclear family
49. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Resource mobilization
Peter principle
Folkways
Invention
50. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Mass media
Invention
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Crime