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CLEP Sociology
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1. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Mortality rate
Status
Invention
Social network
2. 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.
Modernization
Society
Expressiveness
False consciousness
3. 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.
Dependency theory
Small group
Capitalism
Preindustrial city
4. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Extended family
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Ethnic group
Gerontology
5. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Income
Conflict perspective
Model or ideal minority
Absolute poverty
6. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Globalization
Urban ecology
Charismatic authority
Postindustrial city
7. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Assimilation
Secondary group
Discovery
Power
8. Another name for labeling theory.
Religious experience
Societal-reaction approach
Traditional authority
Routine activities theory
9. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Folkways
Socialism
Class
Social role
10. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Established sect
Globalization
Machismo
Affirmative action
11. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
New social movements
Subculture
Closed system
12. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Role strain
Scientific management approach
Secondary analysis
Role exit
13. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Political system
Slavery
Social network
Authority
14. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Adoption
Narcotizing dysfunction
Social structure
Experiment
15. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Proletariat
Income
Peter principle
Liberation theology
16. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Theory
Socialization
Growth rate
Resocialization
17. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Force
Amalgamation
Control group
Political socialization
18. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Exploitation theory
Formal organization
Human ecology
Racial group
19. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Activity theory
Formal organization
Multinational corporations
Feminist perspective
20. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Ideal type
Negotiation
Causal logic
Influence
21. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Secularization
Technology
Negotiated order
Socialization
22. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Achieved status
Sexism
Terrorism
Deindustrialization
23. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Elite model
Agrarian society
Absolute poverty
Latent functions
24. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Routine activities theory
Life chances
Economic system
Labeling theory
25. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Ideal type
Sanctions
Authority
Genocide
26. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Death rate
Deviance
Nisei
Anomie theory of deviance
27. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
Assimilation
Total institutions
Anti-Semitism
28. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Role taking
Crime
Society
29. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Bourgeoisie
Content analysis
Peter principle
Gesellschaft
30. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Slavery
Socialism
Experimental group
31. 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
Anticipatory socialization
Monopoly
Slavery
32. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Equilibrium model
Power elite
Significant others
World systems analysis
33. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Exploitation theory
Causal logic
Intragenerational mobility
Opinion leader
34. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Urbanism
Folkways
Megalopolis
Ethnocentrism
35. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Urbanism
Values
Cultural relativism
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
36. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Assimilation
Postindustrial society
Victimless crimes
Life chances
37. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Independent variable
Conformity
Modernization theory
Reference group
38. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Apartheid
Traditional authority
Industrial society
Infant mortality rate
39. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Group
Expressiveness
Sociological imagination
Small group
40. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Coalition
Degradation ceremony
Gemeinschaft
Demographic transition
41. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Creationism
Apartheid
Postindustrial society
Slavery
42. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Vested interests
Sociocultural evolution
Social mobility
Polygyny
43. 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.
Symbols
Significant others
Bourgeoisie
Survey
44. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Conformity
Minority group
Status group
Multinational corporations
45. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Power
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Normal accidents
46. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Dependency theory
Esteem
Evolutionary theory
Slavery
47. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Social role
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Kinship
Matriarchy
48. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Monogamy
Glass ceiling
Independent variable
Value neutrality
49. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Anti-Semitism
Genocide
Health
Social control
50. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Postindustrial society
Labeling theory
Denomination
Primary group