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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. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
False consciousness
Social constructionist perspective
Innovation
Power elite
2. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Diffusion
Verstehen
Control group
Pluralist model
3. Salaries and wages.
Population pyramid
Intragenerational mobility
Gerontology
Income
4. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Demography
Trained incapacity
E-commerce
Labor unions
5. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Sacred
Political socialization
Expressiveness
Interactionist perspective
6. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Victimization surveys
Genocide
Legal-rational authority
Demography
7. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Extended family
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Hunting-and-gathering society
Tracking
8. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Horizontal mobility
Nisei
Politics
Culture lag
9. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Education
Informal social control
Prevalence
Dramaturgical approach
10. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Castes
Material culture
Role conflict
Functionalist perspective
11. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Profane
Negotiation
Discrimination
Equilibrium model
12. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
World systems analysis
Politics
Negotiation
Labor unions
13. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Slavery
Socialization
Extended family
Growth rate
14. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Interview
Urbanism
Looking-glass self
Esteem
15. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Serial monogamy
Education
Latent functions
16. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Proletariat
Natural science
Life chances
Sample
17. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Exogamy
Traditional authority
Face-work
Functionalist perspective
18. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Minority group
Closed system
Quantitative research
Diffusion
19. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Religious experience
Status
Interactionist perspective
Suburb
20. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Modernization
Control group
Culture shock
Innovation
21. 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.
Modernization theory
Political socialization
Sexual harassment
Labor unions
22. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Religion
Social change
Law
Labor unions
23. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Vertical mobility
Experiment
Interview
Anomie
24. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Human ecology
Mortality rate
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Verstehen
25. Governmental social control.
Gemeinschaft
Bourgeoisie
Law
Secularization
26. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Issei
Activity theory
Social control
Minority group
27. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Deindustrialization
Exploitation theory
Esteem
Stratification
28. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Polygyny
Variable
Curanderismo
Neocolonialism
29. 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.
Nonmaterial culture
Informal social control
Correspondence principle
Crime
30. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Causal logic
Capitalism
Secondary analysis
Contact hypothesis
31. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Prejudice
Closed system
Matrilineal descent
Influence
32. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Societal-reaction approach
Argot
Class consciousness
Familism
33. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Assimilation
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Social control
Political socialization
34. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Informal norms
Elite model
Feminist perspective
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.
Observation
New urban sociology
Multiple-nuclei theory
Societal-reaction approach
36. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Qualitative research
Racial group
Rites of passage
Preindustrial city
37. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Ageism
Feminist perspective
Out-group
Informal economy
38. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Matrilineal descent
Group
Role strain
Anticipatory socialization
39. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Classical theory
Rites of passage
Primary group
Social network
40. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Generalized others
Authority
Validity
Anti-Semitism
41. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Observation
Out-group
Social structure
Sanctions
42. 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.
Homophobia
Peter principle
Telecommuters
Black power
43. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Labeling theory
Culture
Luddites
Society
44. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Genocide
Colonialism
Relative deprivation
45. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Laissez-faire
Familism
Resocialization
Natural science
46. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Questionnaire
Mores
Sect
Personality
47. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Birthrate
Religious experience
Role conflict
Political socialization
48. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Informal social control
Control theory
Concentric-zone theory
Preindustrial city
49. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Institutional discrimination
Adoption
Role exit
Differential association
50. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Conformity
Expressiveness
Sacred
Industrial society