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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Face-work
Ethnography
Cohabitation
Latent functions
2. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Ageism
Terrorism
Social interaction
Degradation ceremony
3. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Prejudice
Adoption
Experimental group
Bilateral descent
4. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Social control
Correspondence principle
Formal social control
Tracking
5. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Genocide
Single-parent families
Societal-reaction approach
Telecommuters
6. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Formal social control
Cult
Colonialism
Personality
7. 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.
Institutional discrimination
Formal organization
Impression management
Conformity
8. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Crime
Serial monogamy
Validity
Secularization
9. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Urbanism
Expressiveness
Terrorism
Manifest functions
10. According to
Luddites
Religion
Interview
Class consciousness
11. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Surveillance function
Code of ethics
Class consciousness
Vital statistics
12. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Sociology
Religious beliefs
Group
Class system
13. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Issei
Self
Glass ceiling
Secondary group
14. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Dependency theory
Political socialization
Force
Victimless crimes
15. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Vested interests
Control variable
Sociology
Crime
16. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Megalopolis
Domestic partnership
Class system
Neocolonialism
17. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Cultural relativism
Racism
Narcotizing dysfunction
Classical theory
18. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Society
Degradation ceremony
Obedience
19. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Formal social control
E-commerce
Power elite
Objective method
20. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Labeling theory
Secondary analysis
Life chances
Social inequality
21. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Expressiveness
Pluralist model
Class
Monogamy
22. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Victimless crimes
Human relations approach
Model or ideal minority
23. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Sexism
Secularization
Code of ethics
Terrorism
24. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Opinion leader
Culture
Independent variable
Creationism
25. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Sick role
Stigma
Polygyny
Victimless crimes
26. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Downsizing
Obedience
Concentric-zone theory
Sample
27. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Capitalism
Modernization theory
Formal social control
Proletariat
28. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Relative deprivation
Glass ceiling
Secularization
Social control
29. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Religious experience
Human ecology
Globalization
Variable
30. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Intragenerational mobility
Familism
Ascribed status
Dysfunction
31. 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.
Diffusion
Agrarian society
Established sect
Politics
32. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Liberation theology
Opinion leader
Correspondence principle
Macrosociology
33. 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.
Social inequality
Agrarian society
Population pyramid
Religious experience
34. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Colonialism
Ethnography
Research design
Demography
35. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Ascribed status
Random sample
Dominant ideology
Pluralism
36. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Instrumentality
Ethnography
Secondary analysis
McDonaldization
37. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Observation
Gemeinschaft
Labor unions
Generalized others
38. 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.
E-commerce
Instrumentality
Tracking
Hidden curriculum
39. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Rites of passage
Political socialization
Social movements
E-commerce
40. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Out-group
Interactionist perspective
Globalization
Prestige
41. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Laissez-faire
Personality
Ethnography
Urban ecology
42. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Human ecology
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Sociocultural evolution
Generalized others
43. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Esteem
Anti-Semitism
Institutional discrimination
Sect
44. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Evolutionary theory
Exogamy
Genocide
Preindustrial city
45. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Causal logic
Education
Narcotizing dysfunction
Unilinear evolutionary theory
46. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Opinion leader
Alienation
Institutional discrimination
Polygamy
47. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Manifest functions
Social inequality
Megalopolis
48. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Triad
Social science
Vertical mobility
Bureaucracy
49. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Folkways
Hypothesis
New social movements
Bilateral descent
50. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Generalized others
Nuclear family
Nonmaterial culture
Credentialism