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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Societal-reaction approach
Macrosociology
Interview
Globalization
2. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Intragenerational mobility
Status
Society
Goal displacement
3. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Secondary analysis
McDonaldization
Colonialism
Sociobiology
4. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Modernization
Intergenerational mobility
Professional criminal
Impression management
5. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Society
Modernization theory
Culture lag
Social inequality
6. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Bilingualism
Norms
Incidence
Experiment
7. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Political system
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Agrarian society
Random sample
8. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Informal social control
Nonmaterial culture
Manifest functions
Diffusion
9. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
White-collar crime
Personality
Classical theory
Exogamy
10. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Hypothesis
Incest taboo
Black power
Innovation
11. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Force
Postindustrial society
Social epidemiology
Castes
12. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Ascribed status
Industrial city
Trained incapacity
Preindustrial city
13. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Luddites
Gemeinschaft
Role conflict
Multilinear evolutionary theory
14. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Hidden curriculum
White-collar crime
Sick role
Socialism
15. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Force
Ethnocentrism
Classical theory
Slavery
16. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Independent variable
Microsociology
Correlation
Personality
17. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Horticultural societies
In-group
Protestant ethic
Dysfunction
18. 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.
Adoption
Polygyny
Research design
Bourgeoisie
19. 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
Model or ideal minority
Sociological imagination
Postindustrial city
20. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Labeling theory
Terrorism
Resocialization
Voluntary associations
21. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Informal social control
Negotiation
Anomie theory of deviance
Informal economy
22. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Achieved status
Mass media
Anomie
Racial group
23. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Causal logic
Colonialism
Dominant ideology
Face-work
24. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Wealth
Values
Amalgamation
Cognitive theory of development
25. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Incidence
Value neutrality
Routine activities theory
Dependency theory
26. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Generalized others
Urbanism
Differential association
Experimental group
27. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Charismatic authority
Sect
Differential association
Postmodern society
28. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Independent variable
Verstehen
Castes
Social role
29. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Census
Validity
Operational definition
Master status
30. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Infant mortality rate
Familism
Intergenerational mobility
Racial group
31. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Capitalism
Urbanism
Out-group
New social movements
32. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Control variable
Theory
Variable
33. 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.
Community
Family
Scientific method
Ethnic group
34. 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.
Adoption
False consciousness
Apartheid
Multiple-nuclei theory
35. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Feminist perspective
Theory
Correspondence principle
Social mobility
36. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Ecclesia
White-collar crime
Socialization
Vested interests
37. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Causal logic
Telecommuters
Iron law of oligarchy
Population pyramid
38. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Social institutions
Correlation
Secondary analysis
Suburb
39. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Classical theory
Laissez-faire
Endogamy
40. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Interview
Teacher-expectancy effect
Familism
Experimental group
41. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Second shift
Role taking
Preindustrial city
Urban ecology
42. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Alienation
Nonmaterial culture
Social inequality
43. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Sociology
Random sample
Bureaucratization
Institutional discrimination
44. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Scientific method
Control group
Influence
Relative deprivation
45. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Globalization
Language
Social network
46. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Proletariat
Telecommuters
Ethnography
Population pyramid
47. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Hidden curriculum
Polygamy
Extended family
Hypothesis
48. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Looking-glass self
Postindustrial society
Significant others
Total fertility rate (TFR)
49. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Death rate
Anti-Semitism
Proletariat
Traditional authority
50. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Evolutionary theory
Census
Independent variable