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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Dependent variable
Social mobility
Reliability
Religious beliefs
2. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Minority group
Vertical mobility
Voluntary associations
Absolute poverty
3. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Vested interests
Bilateral descent
Informal norms
4. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Black power
Qualitative research
Informal social control
Cultural relativism
5. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Legal-rational authority
Monopoly
Class consciousness
Political socialization
6. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Nonmaterial culture
Credentialism
Social structure
Nisei
7. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Conformity
Vertical mobility
Total institutions
Sanctions
8. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Liberation theology
Social inequality
Mores
Influence
9. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Law
Underclass
Dramaturgical approach
Independent variable
10. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Monogamy
Peter principle
Correlation
Science
11. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Sociobiology
Underclass
Horticultural societies
Social mobility
12. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Material culture
Operational definition
Informal norms
Role conflict
13. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Interview
Authority
Assimilation
Symbols
14. 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.
Victimization surveys
Correspondence principle
Segregation
Small group
15. 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.
Code of ethics
Rites of passage
Pluralism
Intergenerational mobility
16. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Dominant ideology
Colonialism
Egalitarian family
Second shift
17. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Sect
Mores
White-collar crime
Sociological imagination
18. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Discrimination
Experimental group
Political system
Institutional discrimination
19. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Control group
Patrilineal descent
Sociocultural evolution
Authority
20. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
False consciousness
Informal norms
Second shift
Profane
21. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Homophobia
Objective method
Labeling theory
Birthrate
22. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Patrilineal descent
Activity theory
Mass media
New social movements
23. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Life expectancy
Science
Social science
Racial group
24. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Interview
Open system
Horticultural societies
Mortality rate
25. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Assimilation
Hunting-and-gathering society
Bureaucracy
Demography
26. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Minority group
Ethnic group
Professional criminal
Sick role
27. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Social epidemiology
Religious experience
Operational definition
Classical theory
28. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Interactionist perspective
Authority
Differential association
Globalization
29. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Interactionist perspective
Matrilineal descent
Ethnography
30. 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.
Human relations approach
Hidden curriculum
Microsociology
Negotiated order
31. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Sect
Argot
Folkways
Luddites
32. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Dependent variable
Status
Postindustrial society
33. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Social constructionist perspective
Control variable
Growth rate
34. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Morbidity rates
Gesellschaft
Stigma
Resocialization
35. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Society
Scientific management approach
Matrilineal descent
Familism
36. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Secularization
Opinion leader
Social constructionist perspective
Impression management
37. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Variable
Culture lag
Polygamy
Cultural transmission
38. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Infant mortality rate
Human relations approach
E-commerce
Suburb
39. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Economic system
Single-parent families
Deindustrialization
Profane
40. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Suburb
Life chances
Control group
Sacred
41. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Objective method
Counterculture
Income
Anomie
42. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Deindustrialization
Status group
Human ecology
Incest taboo
43. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Terrorism
White-collar crime
Hypothesis
Functionalist perspective
44. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Sociocultural evolution
Anti-Semitism
Role conflict
Protestant ethic
45. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Law
Personality
Monogamy
Unilinear evolutionary theory
46. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Experimental group
Small group
Cohabitation
Dependent variable
47. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Megalopolis
Power
Bourgeoisie
48. 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.
Social movements
Matrilineal descent
Anomie
Gesellschaft
49. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Preindustrial city
Counterculture
Formal organization
Technology
50. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Gerontology
Sociocultural evolution
Prestige
Social institutions