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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 religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Traditional authority
Correlation
Ecclesia
Contact hypothesis
2. 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.
Luddites
Religious experience
Socialization
Vital statistics
3. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Culture shock
Preindustrial city
Tracking
Invention
4. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Socialization
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Sexual harassment
Gatekeeping
5. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Correspondence principle
Verstehen
Counterculture
Small group
6. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Slavery
Charismatic authority
Experimental group
Formal organization
7. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Generalized others
Classical theory
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Demography
8. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Quantitative research
Matriarchy
Open system
Discrimination
9. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Labeling theory
Hypothesis
Absolute poverty
Social interaction
10. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Anti-Semitism
Obedience
Closed system
Intragenerational mobility
11. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Quantitative research
Model or ideal minority
Social interaction
Urban ecology
12. Governmental social control.
Law
Stratification
Vital statistics
Sexism
13. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Gemeinschaft
Second shift
Racial group
Polygamy
14. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Science
Prevalence
Law
Suburb
15. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Growth rate
Folkways
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Social interaction
16. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Argot
Status group
Innovation
Sacred
17. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Cultural universals
Surveillance function
Experiment
Monogamy
18. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Wealth
Relative poverty
Routine activities theory
Human relations approach
19. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
New social movements
Demography
Polygyny
Liberation theology
20. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Cult
Wealth
Out-group
Racial group
21. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Fertility
Language
Scientific method
22. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Social structure
Secularization
Profane
Social institutions
23. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Symbols
Religious beliefs
Incest taboo
Dependency theory
24. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Professional criminal
Routine activities theory
Scientific management approach
Dramaturgical approach
25. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Genocide
Open system
Social change
Education
26. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Generalized others
Horticultural societies
Informal social control
Surveillance function
27. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Life chances
Group
Primary group
Esteem
28. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Iron law of oligarchy
Class
Societal-reaction approach
Postindustrial society
29. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Issei
Profane
Latent functions
Income
30. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Creationism
Social change
Class system
Gatekeeping
31. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Surveillance function
Crime
Conformity
Secondary group
32. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Voluntary associations
Sociobiology
Death rate
Education
33. General practices found in every culture.
Cultural universals
Urban ecology
Qualitative research
Language
34. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Interview
Hunting-and-gathering society
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Pluralist model
35. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Postmodern society
Classical theory
Discovery
Gerontology
36. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Cultural transmission
Assimilation
Cultural universals
Patrilineal descent
37. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Bureaucratization
Subculture
Alienation
Hypothesis
38. 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
Ethnocentrism
Formal social control
Victimless crimes
39. 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.
Hypothesis
Underclass
Impression management
Esteem
40. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Hidden curriculum
Ideal type
Hawthorne effect
Experiment
41. 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.
Discrimination
Urbanism
Egalitarian family
Significant others
42. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Hypothesis
Endogamy
Protestant ethic
Scientific method
43. 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.
Pluralism
Egalitarian family
Human relations approach
Hypothesis
44. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Human ecology
Force
Bilingualism
45. 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.
Denomination
Sociocultural evolution
Globalization
Society
46. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Prevalence
Sociocultural evolution
Castes
Power
47. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Colonialism
Human ecology
Ascribed status
Iron law of oligarchy
48. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Social constructionist perspective
Negotiation
New social movements
Family
49. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Protestant ethic
Affirmative action
Social structure
Relative poverty
50. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Control variable
Norms
Dyad
Human relations approach