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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 prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Qualitative research
Social institutions
Sociobiology
2. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Secondary group
Apartheid
Luddites
Urban ecology
3. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Gatekeeping
Total institutions
Significant others
4. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Dramaturgical approach
Functionalist perspective
Patrilineal descent
Voluntary associations
5. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Power
Achieved status
Evolutionary theory
Single-parent families
6. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Model or ideal minority
Invention
Trained incapacity
New social movements
7. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Infant mortality rate
Vertical mobility
Microsociology
Nuclear family
8. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Control group
Correlation
Life expectancy
Interview
9. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Second shift
Cultural universals
New urban sociology
Postmodern society
10. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Conflict perspective
Mortality rate
Voluntary associations
Affirmative action
11. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Secondary analysis
Hunting-and-gathering society
Matriarchy
Qualitative research
12. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Cultural transmission
Castes
Feminist perspective
Counterculture
13. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Environmental justice
Mores
Prevalence
Social structure
14. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
World systems analysis
Rites of passage
In-group
Manifest functions
15. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Ethnic group
Primary group
Ethnocentrism
Disengagement theory
16. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Neocolonialism
Social interaction
Life expectancy
Fertility
17. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Income
Multinational corporations
Natural science
Ideal type
18. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
False consciousness
Sick role
Alienation
Death rate
19. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Sociobiology
Secondary analysis
Contact hypothesis
Open system
20. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sacred
Sociology
Value neutrality
Role exit
21. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Language
Out-group
Genocide
Wealth
22. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Elite model
Sick role
Resocialization
Primary group
23. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Latent functions
Industrial society
Observation
Manifest functions
24. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Peter principle
Informal social control
Social change
Secondary analysis
25. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Experimental group
New urban sociology
Sexism
Horizontal mobility
26. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Relative poverty
Ideal type
Sect
Sanctions
27. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Modernization
Religious rituals
Trained incapacity
Concentric-zone theory
28. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Patriarchy
Cognitive theory of development
Xenocentrism
Racism
29. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Informal social control
Prestige
Social interaction
Patrilineal descent
30. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Informal economy
In-group
Established sect
31. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Industrial city
Population pyramid
Resocialization
Multiple-nuclei theory
32. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Established sect
Ethnocentrism
Health
33. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Economic system
Monopoly
Religious beliefs
Ageism
34. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Manifest functions
Informal social control
Issei
Megalopolis
35. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Rites of passage
Postindustrial city
Open system
Castes
36. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Experiment
Value neutrality
Nisei
Familism
37. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Minority group
Cultural universals
Cultural transmission
Industrial society
38. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Ethnic group
Iron law of oligarchy
Genocide
Significant others
39. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Face-work
Community
Total fertility rate (TFR)
False consciousness
40. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Credentialism
Self
Urbanism
Quantitative research
41. A three-member group.
Fertility
Capitalism
Triad
Culture lag
42. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Interactionist perspective
Cultural transmission
Narcotizing dysfunction
Personality
43. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.
Legal-rational authority
Correspondence principle
Stratification
Societal-reaction approach
44. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Polygyny
Status
Postindustrial city
Normal accidents
45. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Theory
Instrumentality
Exploitation theory
46. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Latent functions
Secularization
Stereotypes
Discovery
47. 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.
Concentric-zone theory
Esteem
Assimilation
Society
48. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Content analysis
Language
Politics
Neocolonialism
49. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.
Credentialism
Fertility
Dysfunction
Pluralism
50. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Mores
Class system
Second shift