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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. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Gerontology
Single-parent families
Racial group
Vertical mobility
2. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Counterculture
Mortality rate
Castes
Peter principle
3. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Wealth
Monogamy
Polygyny
Informal social control
4. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Racial group
Group
Resource mobilization
Norms
5. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Role conflict
Labeling theory
Informal economy
Scientific management approach
6. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Egalitarian family
Vested interests
Stratification
Infant mortality rate
7. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Values
Instrumentality
Single-parent families
Alienation
8. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Ethnography
Cultural relativism
Iron law of oligarchy
Exogamy
9. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Postindustrial society
Established sect
Cultural universals
10. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Religious rituals
New social movements
Ethnography
Dysfunction
11. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Discrimination
Resource mobilization
Modernization
Ecclesia
12. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
New social movements
Curanderismo
Telecommuters
Material culture
13. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Differential association
Expressiveness
Extended family
Labor unions
14. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
White-collar crime
Endogamy
Tracking
15. 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.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Peter principle
Concentric-zone theory
Ageism
16. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Socialization
Serial monogamy
Research design
Downsizing
17. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Life expectancy
Horizontal mobility
Nonmaterial culture
Profane
18. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Urbanism
Causal logic
Open system
Closed system
19. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Tracking
Discovery
Stereotypes
Underclass
20. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Trained incapacity
Bureaucracy
Machismo
Multilinear evolutionary theory
21. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.
In-group
Urbanism
Elite model
Domestic partnership
22. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Iron law of oligarchy
Technology
Prestige
In-group
23. 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.
Sociobiology
Significant others
Opinion leader
Face-work
24. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Domestic partnership
Social constructionist perspective
Political socialization
Familism
25. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Conformity
Institutional discrimination
Deindustrialization
Ethnic group
26. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Mortality rate
Cultural universals
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice
27. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Social role
Power
Face-work
Conformity
28. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Bureaucratization
Culture shock
Religious experience
Patriarchy
29. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Independent variable
Bureaucracy
Force
Suburb
30. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Invention
Social role
Prevalence
Monopoly
31. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Trained incapacity
Serial monogamy
Slavery
Cult
32. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Feminist perspective
In-group
Control theory
Laissez-faire
33. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Relative deprivation
Sick role
Exogamy
Concentric-zone theory
34. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Control variable
Random sample
Society
Formal organization
35. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Horticultural societies
Familism
Castes
Self
36. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Legal-rational authority
Nonverbal communication
Goal displacement
37. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Experimental group
Latent functions
Vested interests
Postindustrial city
38. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Labeling theory
Assimilation
Dependent variable
Polyandry
39. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Sociocultural evolution
Life chances
Looking-glass self
Natural science
40. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Formal organization
Deviance
Argot
Polyandry
41. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Stigma
Bureaucracy
Denomination
Religious rituals
42. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
World systems analysis
Invention
Charismatic authority
Life expectancy
43. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Gender roles
Contact hypothesis
Resocialization
44. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Role exit
Multiple-nuclei theory
Industrial city
Technology
45. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Group
Prestige
Stereotypes
Variable
46. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Polyandry
Correlation
Social inequality
Extended family
47. 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.
Intragenerational mobility
Correlation
Face-work
Power elite
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.
Open system
Disengagement theory
Liberation theology
Informal social control
49. 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.
Alienation
Serial monogamy
Polygyny
Objective method
50. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
New social movements
Slavery
Out-group
Dependent variable