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CLEP Sociology
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1. 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.
Power elite
Megalopolis
Narcotizing dysfunction
Achieved status
2. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Castes
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Apartheid
Subculture
3. 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.
Kinship
Negotiated order
Fertility
Ecclesia
4. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Power
Control variable
Dominant ideology
Capitalism
5. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Sexual harassment
Xenocentrism
Credentialism
Ethnic group
6. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Folkways
Innovation
Bilingualism
Nuclear family
7. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Serial monogamy
Incidence
Anticipatory socialization
Social constructionist perspective
8. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Wealth
Absolute poverty
Bureaucracy
Objective method
9. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Social change
Formal norms
In-group
Denomination
10. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Genocide
Impression management
Gatekeeping
Model or ideal minority
11. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Formal organization
Income
Racial group
Status group
12. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Primary group
Normal accidents
Experimental group
Societal-reaction approach
13. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Affirmative action
Matrilineal descent
Institutional discrimination
Issei
14. 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.
Sect
Patriarchy
Agrarian society
In-group
15. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Relative poverty
Rites of passage
Social role
Bilingualism
16. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Class consciousness
Creationism
Profane
Social epidemiology
17. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Crime
Human relations approach
Culture lag
Discrimination
18. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Assimilation
Preindustrial city
Kinship
Dramaturgical approach
19. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Gesellschaft
Conflict perspective
Sick role
Survey
20. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Role exit
Social movements
Secularization
21. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Peter principle
Human relations approach
Interactionist perspective
Vertical mobility
22. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Sociobiology
Resocialization
Postindustrial society
Vital statistics
23. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Industrial city
Labeling theory
Modernization theory
Validity
24. Another name for labeling theory.
Social network
Hunting-and-gathering society
Looking-glass self
Societal-reaction approach
25. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Open system
Society
Extended family
Sociology
26. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Domestic partnership
Mores
Slavery
Preindustrial city
27. 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.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Sociobiology
Organized crime
Bilateral descent
28. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Language
Content analysis
Crime
Bourgeoisie
29. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Preindustrial city
Socialism
Law
Dominant ideology
30. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Social epidemiology
Alienation
Law
Neocolonialism
31. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Environmental justice
Anticipatory socialization
Absolute poverty
Assimilation
32. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Hunting-and-gathering society
E-commerce
Elite model
Relative poverty
33. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Prestige
Role conflict
Modernization theory
Curanderismo
34. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Institutional discrimination
Qualitative research
Census
Role strain
35. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Pluralist model
Control variable
Content analysis
36. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Ethnic group
Protestant ethic
Legal-rational authority
37. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Underclass
Mass media
Assimilation
Instrumentality
38. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Authority
Resocialization
Nonmaterial culture
Liberation theology
39. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Master status
Victimless crimes
Feminist perspective
Ecclesia
40. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Deviance
Monopoly
Denomination
Ageism
41. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
World systems analysis
Sacred
Scientific method
Fertility
42. 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.
Telecommuters
Proletariat
Pluralism
Sexual harassment
43. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Crime
Ascribed status
Observation
Class
44. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Patrilineal descent
Pluralism
Nonmaterial culture
Underclass
45. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Master status
Power elite
Victimization surveys
Megalopolis
46. 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
Black power
Domestic partnership
Scientific method
47. 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.
Monogamy
Society
Argot
Triad
48. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Racism
Significant others
Egalitarian family
Preindustrial city
49. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Urbanism
Cognitive theory of development
Exploitation theory
Labor unions
50. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Norms
Glass ceiling
Denomination
Scientific method