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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. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Racism
Sociology
Labeling theory
2. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Matrilineal descent
Cult
Prejudice
Dyad
3. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Minority group
Counterculture
Serial monogamy
World systems analysis
4. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Nonverbal communication
Activity theory
Observation
Sociobiology
5. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Authority
Dependent variable
Labor unions
Castes
6. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Social role
Established sect
Face-work
Dominant ideology
7. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Anti-Semitism
Kinship
Wealth
Social interaction
8. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Intergenerational mobility
Xenocentrism
Monopoly
Objective method
9. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
Gender roles
Culture
Liberation theology
10. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Questionnaire
Hidden curriculum
Intergenerational mobility
Multiple-nuclei theory
11. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Hidden curriculum
Fertility
Stigma
Power elite
12. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Established sect
Vertical mobility
Intergenerational mobility
13. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Social network
Teacher-expectancy effect
Class consciousness
Sacred
14. The study of various aspects of human society.
Single-parent families
Prejudice
Polygyny
Social science
15. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Model or ideal minority
Relative poverty
Life chances
Iron law of oligarchy
16. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Deviance
Sociocultural evolution
Coalition
Vital statistics
17. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Class system
Causal logic
Degradation ceremony
Science
18. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Questionnaire
Culture lag
Teacher-expectancy effect
Castes
19. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Charismatic authority
Dominant ideology
Socialization
20. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Life chances
Prevalence
Model or ideal minority
Social network
21. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Informal economy
Polygamy
Absolute poverty
Master status
22. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Downsizing
White-collar crime
Traditional authority
Gerontology
23. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Established sect
Charismatic authority
Argot
24. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Apartheid
Objective method
Endogamy
25. 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.
Research design
Society
Voluntary associations
Law
26. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Social control
Culture
Patriarchy
Demographic transition
27. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Anomie theory of deviance
Authority
Informal economy
Income
28. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Macrosociology
Feminist perspective
Control variable
Secondary group
29. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Value neutrality
Neocolonialism
Experiment
Model or ideal minority
30. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Modernization theory
Culture shock
Teacher-expectancy effect
Ageism
31. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Norms
Urbanism
Polygamy
False consciousness
32. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Mores
Denomination
Triad
Sociobiology
33. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Elite model
Postmodern society
Sexual harassment
Peter principle
34. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Sample
Exogamy
Formal organization
Culture lag
35. 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.
Crime
Anomie theory of deviance
Law
Generalized others
36. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Single-parent families
Sample
Anomie
Theory
37. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Theory
Deviance
Survey
38. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Social science
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Bilateral descent
Multiple-nuclei theory
39. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Downsizing
Credentialism
Minority group
Power elite
40. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Affirmative action
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Deindustrialization
Independent variable
41. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Social epidemiology
Health
Iron law of oligarchy
Differential association
42. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
New urban sociology
Ascribed status
Sample
Anomie
43. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Sacred
Functionalist perspective
Routine activities theory
Culture shock
44. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Pluralist model
Power
Industrial society
Activity theory
45. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Contact hypothesis
Patriarchy
Industrial society
46. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Causal logic
Bureaucratization
Nonverbal communication
Experimental group
47. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Hidden curriculum
Downsizing
Denomination
Endogamy
48. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Family
Sample
Functionalist perspective
Legal-rational authority
49. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Multinational corporations
Modernization
Ethnocentrism
Societal-reaction approach
50. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Qualitative research
Social network
Socialism
Value neutrality