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CLEP Sociology
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1. Another name for labeling theory.
Master status
Societal-reaction approach
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Classical theory
2. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Religious experience
Anticipatory socialization
Mass media
Stereotypes
3. 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.
Influence
Hunting-and-gathering society
Trained incapacity
Minority group
4. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Stratification
Expressiveness
Nuclear family
Cultural universals
5. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Amalgamation
Sexual harassment
Latent functions
Gesellschaft
6. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Social epidemiology
Nuclear family
Dramaturgical approach
Total fertility rate (TFR)
7. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
New social movements
Social epidemiology
Class consciousness
Social control
8. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Face-work
Patriarchy
Wealth
Human relations approach
9. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Informal social control
Intragenerational mobility
Primary group
Politics
10. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Goal displacement
Rites of passage
Status group
11. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Esteem
Control theory
Proletariat
Monogamy
12. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Homophobia
Counterculture
Organized crime
Egalitarian family
13. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Latent functions
Exploitation theory
Matrilineal descent
Socialization
14. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Deviance
Victimless crimes
Sick role
Small group
15. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Sociology
Latent functions
Modernization
Discovery
16. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Cultural transmission
Model or ideal minority
Issei
Creationism
17. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Manifest functions
Resocialization
Victimless crimes
Vertical mobility
18. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Invention
Exploitation theory
Religious rituals
19. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Formal social control
Single-parent families
Stereotypes
Gender roles
20. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Apartheid
Goal displacement
Survey
Xenocentrism
21. 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.
Life expectancy
Instrumentality
Cult
Ideal type
22. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Urban ecology
Social epidemiology
Homophobia
Reliability
23. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Apartheid
Exploitation theory
Out-group
Sociology
24. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Luddites
Protestant ethic
Social mobility
Surveillance function
25. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Sanctions
Social epidemiology
Alienation
Culture shock
26. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Cognitive theory of development
Material culture
Bureaucratization
Dramaturgical approach
27. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Crime
Wealth
Stigma
Class
28. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Secondary group
Xenocentrism
Morbidity rates
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
29. 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.
Resocialization
Natural science
Authority
New urban sociology
30. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Self
Gesellschaft
Census
Negotiated order
31. 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.
Income
Anomie theory of deviance
Cohabitation
Cultural relativism
32. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Argot
Downsizing
Formal organization
Social change
33. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Surveillance function
New social movements
Alienation
Patriarchy
34. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Established sect
Agrarian society
Control variable
Differential association
35. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Intergenerational mobility
Experimental group
Slavery
Mortality rate
36. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Force
Science
Laissez-faire
Closed system
37. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Opinion leader
Machismo
Vital statistics
Patriarchy
38. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Triad
Dependent variable
Wealth
Sexism
39. 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.
Stigma
Vested interests
Adoption
Mass media
40. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Tracking
Coalition
Group
41. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Human relations approach
Industrial city
Deviance
42. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Dependent variable
Religious rituals
Random sample
Degradation ceremony
43. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Incest taboo
Impression management
Sanctions
Ethnography
44. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Total institutions
Sociocultural evolution
Class consciousness
Social control
45. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Political socialization
Dominant ideology
Discovery
Control theory
46. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Prejudice
Formal norms
Sample
Family
47. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Qualitative research
Interactionist perspective
Culture lag
Industrial society
48. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Socialism
Black power
Observation
Discovery
49. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Narcotizing dysfunction
New social movements
Degradation ceremony
Bureaucracy
50. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Secondary analysis
Classical theory
Modernization theory
Institutional discrimination