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CLEP Sociology
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Conflict perspective
Role taking
Matriarchy
Operational definition
2. 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.
Mortality rate
Death rate
Religious rituals
Power elite
3. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Racial group
Anomie
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Kinship
4. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Dyad
Surveillance function
Social interaction
Significant others
5. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Exploitation theory
Elite model
Class
6. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Social constructionist perspective
Suburb
Horizontal mobility
Profane
7. 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.
Validity
Matriarchy
Secondary analysis
Telecommuters
8. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Group
Interactionist perspective
Religious beliefs
Self
9. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Education
Authority
Suburb
Polygamy
10. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Sacred
Prevalence
Scientific method
Political socialization
11. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Xenocentrism
Iron law of oligarchy
Sample
Globalization
12. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Protestant ethic
Informal economy
Downsizing
Adoption
13. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Incest taboo
Modernization
Qualitative research
Sacred
14. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Laissez-faire
Religious experience
Stratification
Negotiated order
15. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Legal-rational authority
Family
Stigma
16. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Prevalence
Modernization
Random sample
Demography
17. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Negotiation
Content analysis
Hypothesis
Issei
18. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Survey
Growth rate
Verstehen
Master status
19. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Incest taboo
Creationism
Machismo
Control theory
20. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Creationism
Resocialization
Bilingualism
Stereotypes
21. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Deindustrialization
Dysfunction
Black power
Code of ethics
22. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.
New social movements
Anomie theory of deviance
Demographic transition
Glass ceiling
23. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Surveillance function
Defended neighborhood
E-commerce
Familism
24. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Symbols
Denomination
Norms
Discovery
25. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Sexism
Multiple-nuclei theory
Goal displacement
Rites of passage
26. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Social epidemiology
Absolute poverty
Human relations approach
Community
27. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Extended family
Primary group
Master status
Ethnocentrism
28. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Gesellschaft
Homophobia
Adoption
Zero population growth (ZPG)
29. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Slavery
Social change
Ageism
Incidence
30. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Relative poverty
Charismatic authority
Looking-glass self
Routine activities theory
31. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Bourgeoisie
Ethnography
Life chances
Opinion leader
32. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Liberation theology
Endogamy
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Sexism
33. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Open system
Socialism
Labeling theory
Vital statistics
34. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Causal logic
Prestige
Material culture
35. 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.
Validity
Folkways
New urban sociology
Globalization
36. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Stigma
Law
Issei
Social structure
37. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
New urban sociology
Content analysis
Labor unions
Informal economy
38. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
McDonaldization
Hidden curriculum
Sick role
Experiment
39. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Control variable
Mores
Nisei
Disengagement theory
40. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Microsociology
Independent variable
Expressiveness
Macrosociology
41. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Endogamy
Polyandry
Legal-rational authority
Segregation
42. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Issei
Peter principle
Face-work
Folkways
43. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Racial group
Out-group
Relative poverty
Agrarian society
44. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Diffusion
World systems analysis
Instrumentality
Creationism
45. 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.
Capitalism
Urbanism
Deindustrialization
Folkways
46. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Closed system
Evolutionary theory
Validity
Defended neighborhood
47. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Secondary group
Endogamy
Sociocultural evolution
Formal norms
48. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Code of ethics
Nisei
Apartheid
Routine activities theory
49. 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.
Obedience
Society
Feminist perspective
Informal economy
50. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Sick role
World systems analysis
Voluntary associations
Language