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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Gatekeeping
Culture shock
Rites of passage
2. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Norms
Vital statistics
Growth rate
Concentric-zone theory
3. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Quantitative research
Folkways
Labor unions
Correspondence principle
4. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Hypothesis
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Qualitative research
Growth rate
5. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Slavery
Religion
Exogamy
Total fertility rate (TFR)
6. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Verstehen
Opinion leader
Apartheid
Life chances
7. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Influence
Pluralism
Role strain
Sexual harassment
8. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Familism
Hawthorne effect
Material culture
Face-work
9. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.
Liberation theology
Stigma
Racial group
Power elite
10. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Primary group
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Law
Social movements
11. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Institutional discrimination
Victimization surveys
Secularization
Normal accidents
12. 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.
Ascribed status
Discrimination
Mass media
Pluralism
13. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Bourgeoisie
Esteem
Narcotizing dysfunction
Slavery
14. Salaries and wages.
Influence
Income
Language
Negotiated order
15. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Content analysis
Familism
Negotiation
Infant mortality rate
16. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Anomie
Serial monogamy
Apartheid
Total fertility rate (TFR)
17. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Homophobia
Latent functions
Voluntary associations
Teacher-expectancy effect
18. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Incest taboo
Formal organization
Expressiveness
Modernization theory
19. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Achieved status
Cultural relativism
Social change
Ageism
20. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Power elite
Issei
Force
Degradation ceremony
21. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Survey
Class system
Counterculture
Dominant ideology
22. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Obedience
Sociocultural evolution
Personality
Labor unions
23. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Influence
Pluralism
Operational definition
Natural science
24. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Argot
Social interaction
Questionnaire
Gerontology
25. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Correlation
Trained incapacity
Social science
Capitalism
26. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Random sample
Research design
Neocolonialism
Control variable
27. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Profane
Crime
Opinion leader
Underclass
28. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Life chances
Discovery
Total institutions
Segregation
29. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Innovation
Material culture
Objective method
Sociocultural evolution
30. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Trained incapacity
Elite model
Prejudice
Bureaucracy
31. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Telecommuters
Polygyny
Concentric-zone theory
Functionalist perspective
32. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
In-group
Social role
Manifest functions
Normal accidents
33. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Control variable
Reliability
Stereotypes
34. The study of various aspects of human society.
Social science
Institutional discrimination
Vertical mobility
Community
35. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Economic system
Formal norms
Sacred
Luddites
36. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Scientific method
Socialization
Homophobia
Preindustrial city
37. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Equilibrium model
Patriarchy
Correlation
Religious beliefs
38. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Informal economy
Human ecology
Anomie
Organized crime
39. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Social change
Economic system
Deviance
New social movements
40. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Anti-Semitism
Suburb
Expressiveness
41. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Elite model
Secondary analysis
Peter principle
Monopoly
42. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Correspondence principle
Telecommuters
Stratification
McDonaldization
43. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Scientific management approach
Survey
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Stigma
44. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Social structure
Denomination
Anti-Semitism
Equilibrium model
45. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Sociological imagination
Serial monogamy
Material culture
Ethnocentrism
46. 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.
Society
Voluntary associations
Fertility
Population pyramid
47. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Polygamy
Infant mortality rate
Tracking
Prestige
48. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Coalition
Disengagement theory
Social movements
Agrarian society
49. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Secondary group
Argot
Hunting-and-gathering society
World systems analysis
50. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Incidence
Open system
Industrial city
Polyandry