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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 society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Dyad
Research design
Matriarchy
Crime
2. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Code of ethics
Culture
Tracking
Group
3. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Cult
Established sect
Politics
Peter principle
4. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Sick role
Postmodern society
Nisei
Content analysis
5. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Role taking
Qualitative research
Language
Human relations approach
6. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Social control
Role exit
Nonverbal communication
Dependent variable
7. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Intergenerational mobility
Social control
Genocide
Triad
8. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Income
Conformity
Racism
9. 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.
Modernization theory
Human relations approach
Verstehen
Innovation
10. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Bureaucratization
Glass ceiling
Questionnaire
Class system
11. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Economic system
Growth rate
Sacred
Social science
12. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Castes
Macrosociology
Culture
Bilateral descent
13. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Activity theory
Matrilineal descent
Language
Nonmaterial culture
14. 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
E-commerce
Capitalism
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
15. Governmental social control.
Law
Patriarchy
Microsociology
Neocolonialism
16. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Bilingualism
Vertical mobility
Teacher-expectancy effect
Hidden curriculum
17. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Downsizing
Familism
Interview
Social institutions
18. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Role taking
Interactionist perspective
Adoption
Polygamy
19. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Cultural relativism
Innovation
Amalgamation
Legal-rational authority
20. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Socialism
Colonialism
Deviance
Established sect
21. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Theory
Culture
Incest taboo
Surveillance function
22. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Health
Relative poverty
Experimental group
23. 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.
Obedience
Social constructionist perspective
Organized crime
Role conflict
24. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Pluralism
Ethnography
Class system
Power elite
25. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Creationism
Control variable
Industrial society
Serial monogamy
26. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Anti-Semitism
Protestant ethic
Voluntary associations
Fertility
27. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Disengagement theory
Life chances
Bureaucracy
Census
28. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Domestic partnership
Nonverbal communication
Iron law of oligarchy
Teacher-expectancy effect
29. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Affirmative action
Labor unions
Mores
Dependency theory
30. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Obedience
Industrial society
Proletariat
31. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Microsociology
Adoption
Endogamy
32. The incidence of death in a given population.
Classical theory
Observation
Mortality rate
Sample
33. 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.
Stigma
Society
Surveillance function
Correspondence principle
34. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
White-collar crime
Unilinear evolutionary theory
E-commerce
Homophobia
35. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Independent variable
Triad
Social inequality
Egalitarian family
36. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Second shift
Stratification
Experiment
Bourgeoisie
37. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Victimless crimes
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Urbanism
Demography
38. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Sexism
Environmental justice
Vested interests
39. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Suburb
Crime
Horticultural societies
Opinion leader
40. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Nuclear family
Vertical mobility
Deindustrialization
41. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Questionnaire
Birthrate
Matrilineal descent
Victimless crimes
42. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Theory
Latent functions
Looking-glass self
Content analysis
43. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Folkways
Social interaction
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Defended neighborhood
44. Salaries and wages.
Income
Neocolonialism
Ageism
Sample
45. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Credentialism
Achieved status
Multiple-nuclei theory
Microsociology
46. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Social change
Formal social control
Modernization
47. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Terrorism
Amalgamation
Voluntary associations
Sick role
48. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Folkways
Out-group
Social constructionist perspective
Conformity
49. 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.
Impression management
Black power
Human relations approach
Polygamy
50. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Dysfunction
Culture shock
Nonverbal communication
Operational definition