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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 denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Social mobility
Incest taboo
Institutional discrimination
New urban sociology
2. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Research design
Dyad
New urban sociology
Values
3. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Cohabitation
Contact hypothesis
Religion
Surveillance function
4. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Manifest functions
Curanderismo
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Absolute poverty
5. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Luddites
Experimental group
Religious rituals
Endogamy
6. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Demography
Downsizing
Primary group
Reference group
7. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Bureaucracy
New urban sociology
Political socialization
Stereotypes
8. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Religious beliefs
World systems analysis
Model or ideal minority
Dependent variable
9. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Morbidity rates
Sociocultural evolution
Experiment
Infant mortality rate
10. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Institutional discrimination
Random sample
Mortality rate
11. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Norms
Impression management
Mass media
12. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Concentric-zone theory
Racism
New urban sociology
13. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Random sample
Social institutions
Functionalist perspective
Activity theory
14. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Egalitarian family
Resource mobilization
Glass ceiling
Apartheid
15. 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
Elite model
Death rate
Ideal type
16. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Sick role
Innovation
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Formal organization
17. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Equilibrium model
Small group
Role exit
Group
18. 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.
Experiment
Census
Verstehen
Familism
19. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Informal social control
Degradation ceremony
White-collar crime
Relative poverty
20. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Second shift
Classical theory
Hidden curriculum
Amalgamation
21. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Family
Credentialism
Victimization surveys
Natural science
22. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Reference group
Feminist perspective
Traditional authority
Socialism
23. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Neocolonialism
Colonialism
Quantitative research
24. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Nonmaterial culture
Research design
Victimization surveys
New social movements
25. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Cognitive theory of development
Material culture
Traditional authority
Curanderismo
26. The state of being related to others.
Kinship
Ethnic group
Interview
Social control
27. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Hypothesis
Protestant ethic
Gesellschaft
Colonialism
28. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Intergenerational mobility
Dysfunction
Social institutions
Causal logic
29. A two-member group.
Life expectancy
Endogamy
Sociobiology
Dyad
30. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Terrorism
Content analysis
Absolute poverty
Teacher-expectancy effect
31. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Credentialism
Class consciousness
Political system
Concentric-zone theory
32. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Role strain
Hunting-and-gathering society
Small group
Family
33. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Life chances
Values
Degradation ceremony
Ethnography
34. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Nonmaterial culture
Proletariat
Subculture
Affirmative action
35. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Organized crime
Racism
Secondary analysis
Power
36. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Sick role
Intergenerational mobility
Bilateral descent
Social institutions
37. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Social change
Agrarian society
Single-parent families
Sexism
38. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Surveillance function
New urban sociology
Relative deprivation
Observation
39. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Familism
Economic system
Natural science
Latent functions
40. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Charismatic authority
Ascribed status
Random sample
Health
41. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Stratification
Sect
Socialism
Economic system
42. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Fertility
Affirmative action
Dramaturgical approach
Victimless crimes
43. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Trained incapacity
Religious beliefs
Anti-Semitism
Group
44. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Social mobility
Role strain
Population pyramid
Social constructionist perspective
45. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Validity
Class consciousness
Anti-Semitism
Ageism
46. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Sexism
Anomie
Negotiation
Multinational corporations
47. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Issei
Observation
Peter principle
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
48. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Life expectancy
Socialism
Bureaucracy
Out-group
49. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Telecommuters
Diffusion
Legal-rational authority
Deviance
50. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Cognitive theory of development
Liberation theology
Manifest functions
Qualitative research