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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 belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Xenocentrism
Affirmative action
Formal organization
Sexual harassment
2. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Telecommuters
Degradation ceremony
Feminist perspective
Objective method
3. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Qualitative research
Cultural relativism
Concentric-zone theory
Castes
4. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Religious rituals
Bureaucratization
Gerontology
Validity
5. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Role conflict
Informal social control
Industrial city
Postmodern society
6. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Modernization
Rites of passage
Questionnaire
Hidden curriculum
7. The scientific study of population.
Domestic partnership
Operational definition
Causal logic
Demography
8. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Law
Death rate
Ascribed status
9. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Group
Sacred
Vital statistics
Reliability
10. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Credentialism
Routine activities theory
Dramaturgical approach
Professional criminal
11. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Socialization
Achieved status
Variable
Birthrate
12. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Informal norms
Sect
Postmodern society
13. 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.
Evolutionary theory
Peter principle
Resocialization
Modernization theory
14. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Social control
Negotiation
Negotiated order
Reliability
15. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Personality
Trained incapacity
Conflict perspective
Quantitative research
16. 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.
Labeling theory
Deviance
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Religious beliefs
17. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Horticultural societies
Questionnaire
Slavery
Role exit
18. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Scientific management approach
Matrilineal descent
Symbols
Informal economy
19. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Growth rate
Classical theory
Terrorism
Master status
20. 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.
Sick role
New urban sociology
Looking-glass self
Research design
21. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Resocialization
Ascribed status
Differential association
Patrilineal descent
22. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Human ecology
Value neutrality
Secularization
Anticipatory socialization
23. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Anticipatory socialization
Preindustrial city
Social structure
Obedience
24. 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.
Politics
Modernization
Creationism
Vested interests
25. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Ecclesia
False consciousness
Telecommuters
Ageism
26. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Societal-reaction approach
Religious beliefs
Trained incapacity
Matrilineal descent
27. 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.
Force
Wealth
McDonaldization
Telecommuters
28. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Influence
Content analysis
Vertical mobility
Class
29. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Social constructionist perspective
Status
Qualitative research
Sociobiology
30. 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.
Variable
Interactionist perspective
Creationism
Polyandry
31. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
False consciousness
Segregation
Cultural transmission
Role exit
32. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Census
Informal social control
Established sect
Conformity
33. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Deindustrialization
Sociocultural evolution
Diffusion
Hidden curriculum
34. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Science
Total institutions
Control group
35. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Industrial city
Hunting-and-gathering society
Class
Sexual harassment
36. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
New social movements
Model or ideal minority
Victimization surveys
Law
37. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Vertical mobility
Modernization
Dysfunction
Society
38. 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.
Cultural relativism
Control variable
Infant mortality rate
Narcotizing dysfunction
39. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Control group
Variable
Intergenerational mobility
Tracking
40. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Industrial society
Sociocultural evolution
Dysfunction
Liberation theology
41. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Cognitive theory of development
Reliability
Generalized others
Horizontal mobility
42. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Nonverbal communication
Proletariat
Material culture
Survey
43. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Random sample
Language
Material culture
Polyandry
44. 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.
Intergenerational mobility
Pluralism
Terrorism
Anomie theory of deviance
45. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Xenocentrism
Intragenerational mobility
Technology
46. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Bilateral descent
Cultural relativism
Counterculture
Matriarchy
47. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Qualitative research
Institutional discrimination
Credentialism
Amalgamation
48. 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.
Role taking
Polygyny
Culture lag
Ecclesia
49. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Underclass
Social mobility
Curanderismo
Out-group
50. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Bureaucratization
Nisei
Gerontology
Patrilineal descent