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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 interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Activity theory
Control theory
Law
Qualitative research
2. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Sociological imagination
Language
Sample
Teacher-expectancy effect
3. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Endogamy
Incest taboo
Causal logic
Role conflict
4. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Denomination
Religious beliefs
Discovery
Ideal type
5. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Secondary group
Anticipatory socialization
Master status
Monogamy
6. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Glass ceiling
Bureaucracy
Survey
Control theory
7. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Endogamy
Ethnography
Manifest functions
Authority
8. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Personality
Control theory
Status group
9. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Natural science
Horticultural societies
Megalopolis
Underclass
10. A two-member group.
Natural science
Amalgamation
Stigma
Dyad
11. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Triad
Esteem
Independent variable
12. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Trained incapacity
Manifest functions
Triad
Normal accidents
13. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Classical theory
Sociobiology
Death rate
McDonaldization
14. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Status
Population pyramid
Goal displacement
15. 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.
Evolutionary theory
Anomie theory of deviance
Vested interests
Suburb
16. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Profane
Sacred
Science
Black power
17. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Liberation theology
Obedience
Social structure
Class system
18. The state of being related to others.
Social science
Narcotizing dysfunction
Kinship
Patriarchy
19. The scientific study of population.
Demography
Status group
Concentric-zone theory
Iron law of oligarchy
20. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Nonverbal communication
Family
Matrilineal descent
Negotiated order
21. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Model or ideal minority
Class
Polygamy
Politics
22. The study of various aspects of human society.
Mortality rate
World systems analysis
Cultural transmission
Social science
23. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Matriarchy
Variable
Social interaction
24. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Conformity
Expressiveness
Life chances
Degradation ceremony
25. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Small group
Nonmaterial culture
Role taking
Egalitarian family
26. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Glass ceiling
Power
Matriarchy
Egalitarian family
27. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Dominant ideology
Socialization
Model or ideal minority
Latent functions
28. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Hidden curriculum
Denomination
Personality
Multiple-nuclei theory
29. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Formal social control
Patrilineal descent
Familism
Functionalist perspective
30. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Coalition
Politics
Disengagement theory
Instrumentality
31. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
McDonaldization
Feminist perspective
Education
Proletariat
32. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Causal logic
Routine activities theory
Terrorism
Sick role
33. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Religious experience
Stratification
Bourgeoisie
Scientific method
34. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Modernization theory
Informal economy
Political system
Ethnography
35. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Monogamy
Social institutions
Terrorism
Urban ecology
36. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Instrumentality
Luddites
Innovation
Master status
37. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Postindustrial city
Victimless crimes
Single-parent families
Polygamy
38. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Morbidity rates
Fertility
Control theory
Bilateral descent
39. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Life chances
Social mobility
Hypothesis
Resocialization
40. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Preindustrial city
Sect
Minority group
Patrilineal descent
41. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Labor unions
Environmental justice
Incidence
Birthrate
42. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Validity
Life expectancy
Assimilation
Second shift
43. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Black power
Telecommuters
Affirmative action
Serial monogamy
44. 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.
Routine activities theory
Tracking
Modernization
Agrarian society
45. 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.
Megalopolis
Organized crime
Ethnocentrism
Society
46. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Resocialization
Discovery
Religious beliefs
Environmental justice
47. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Culture shock
Social institutions
Slavery
Stigma
48. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Opinion leader
Primary group
Secondary analysis
Victimization surveys
49. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Institutional discrimination
Life expectancy
Causal logic
New social movements
50. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Control group
Horticultural societies
Social role
In-group