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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 state of being related to others.
Vested interests
Postindustrial city
Kinship
Feminist perspective
2. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Pluralism
Crime
Death rate
Role taking
3. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Sexual harassment
Racism
New social movements
4. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Significant others
Resource mobilization
Master status
Deindustrialization
5. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Language
Endogamy
Social science
Open system
6. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Subculture
Assimilation
Megalopolis
Discrimination
7. 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.
Significant others
Social change
Expressiveness
Profane
8. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Castes
Microsociology
Nuclear family
Personality
9. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Bilateral descent
Protestant ethic
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Gender roles
10. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Class
Power elite
Master status
Stereotypes
11. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Culture
Language
Reliability
Victimless crimes
12. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Creationism
Elite model
Preindustrial city
Observation
13. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Patriarchy
Sociocultural evolution
Ecclesia
Health
14. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Institutional discrimination
Sample
Death rate
Polyandry
15. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Mortality rate
Hunting-and-gathering society
Life expectancy
Sick role
16. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Hypothesis
Mortality rate
Esteem
Opinion leader
17. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Assimilation
Authority
Life expectancy
Black power
18. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Death rate
Formal norms
Independent variable
Norms
19. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Class
Out-group
Sociological imagination
Scientific management approach
20. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Human ecology
Personality
Correspondence principle
Random sample
21. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Anticipatory socialization
Mores
Sick role
Subculture
22. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Formal norms
Argot
Feminist perspective
Demography
23. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Socialism
Material culture
Law
Correspondence principle
24. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Defended neighborhood
Machismo
False consciousness
Colonialism
25. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Segregation
Sick role
Protestant ethic
Voluntary associations
26. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Anomie
Language
Status group
Scientific management approach
27. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Total institutions
Dominant ideology
Variable
Downsizing
28. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Stereotypes
Matriarchy
Ascribed status
Science
29. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Death rate
Peter principle
Prejudice
Cult
30. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
New urban sociology
Force
Society
31. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Cohabitation
Group
Anticipatory socialization
New social movements
32. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
White-collar crime
Social change
Deviance
Zero population growth (ZPG)
33. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Negotiation
Conflict perspective
Class system
Functionalist perspective
34. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Code of ethics
Degradation ceremony
Quantitative research
Established sect
35. 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.
Infant mortality rate
Capitalism
Narcotizing dysfunction
Legal-rational authority
36. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Control theory
Ethnic group
Victimization surveys
Patrilineal descent
37. General practices found in every culture.
Health
Sample
Cultural universals
Serial monogamy
38. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Nisei
Generalized others
Sexism
Religious beliefs
39. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Dysfunction
Mores
Extended family
Incidence
40. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Exploitation theory
Iron law of oligarchy
Variable
Laissez-faire
41. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Minority group
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Correspondence principle
Social mobility
42. 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.
Exogamy
Vested interests
Ideal type
Argot
43. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Curanderismo
Serial monogamy
Stratification
Macrosociology
44. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Ethnocentrism
Monopoly
Life chances
Professional criminal
45. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Life expectancy
Narcotizing dysfunction
Glass ceiling
Religious rituals
46. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Egalitarian family
Rites of passage
Growth rate
Life expectancy
47. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Modernization theory
Suburb
Socialism
Theory
48. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Colonialism
Goal displacement
Cultural relativism
Stratification
49. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Culture
Bilateral descent
Independent variable
Scientific method
50. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Modernization theory
Victimization surveys
Terrorism
Iron law of oligarchy