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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 work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Anomie
Organized crime
Tracking
Stereotypes
2. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Socialism
Pluralism
Conflict perspective
Status group
3. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Master status
Creationism
Informal social control
Observation
4. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Ageism
Role strain
Nonmaterial culture
Horizontal mobility
5. 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.
Creationism
Power
Voluntary associations
Sexual harassment
6. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Conformity
Multinational corporations
Dependency theory
Slavery
7. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Urban ecology
Norms
New social movements
Dependent variable
8. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
McDonaldization
Income
Patrilineal descent
Black power
9. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Peter principle
Absolute poverty
Natural science
Political system
10. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Vital statistics
Law
Theory
Education
11. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Peter principle
Stereotypes
Labeling theory
Values
12. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Theory
Folkways
Multinational corporations
Pluralist model
13. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Agrarian society
Kinship
Power elite
Operational definition
14. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Class system
Vested interests
Legal-rational authority
Teacher-expectancy effect
15. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Incidence
Urban ecology
Vested interests
Material culture
16. 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.
Gender roles
Liberation theology
Correspondence principle
World systems analysis
17. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Polyandry
Relative deprivation
Bureaucracy
18. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Material culture
Socialization
Macrosociology
Social change
19. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Health
Demography
Looking-glass self
Slavery
20. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Power
Monogamy
Exploitation theory
Polygamy
21. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Coalition
Informal social control
Quantitative research
Culture lag
22. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Social role
Correspondence principle
Serial monogamy
New social movements
23. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Black power
Opinion leader
Dependency theory
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
24. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Routine activities theory
Feminist perspective
Extended family
Institutional discrimination
25. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Hypothesis
Social inequality
Death rate
Slavery
26. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Cognitive theory of development
Role taking
Self
Negotiation
27. 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.
Instrumentality
Pluralism
Independent variable
Dramaturgical approach
28. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Sociological imagination
Social movements
Polygyny
29. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Postmodern society
Surveillance function
Sociology
Informal norms
30. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
False consciousness
Formal organization
Technology
31. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Material culture
Modernization
Discrimination
New urban sociology
32. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Denomination
Neocolonialism
Polyandry
Postindustrial city
33. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Gesellschaft
Bureaucratization
Patrilineal descent
Victimization surveys
34. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Ethnography
Manifest functions
Growth rate
Formal norms
35. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Causal logic
Power elite
Contact hypothesis
McDonaldization
36. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Horizontal mobility
Class
Manifest functions
Glass ceiling
37. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
In-group
Objective method
Horizontal mobility
Sample
38. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Feminist perspective
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Political system
Labeling theory
39. 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.
Human relations approach
Power
Political system
Cognitive theory of development
40. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Class consciousness
Institutional discrimination
Underclass
Alienation
41. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Vested interests
Voluntary associations
Racial group
Total fertility rate (TFR)
42. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Birthrate
Classical theory
Routine activities theory
Coalition
43. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Black power
Correspondence principle
Ideal type
Community
44. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Prestige
Racial group
Counterculture
Fertility
45. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Self
Modernization theory
Dependent variable
Political socialization
46. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Elite model
Modernization
Xenocentrism
Growth rate
47. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Natural science
Class consciousness
Qualitative research
Prevalence
48. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Experiment
Ethnocentrism
Anomie
Cult
49. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Feminist perspective
Technology
Established sect
Validity
50. The incidence of death in a given population.
Symbols
Credentialism
Xenocentrism
Mortality rate