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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. 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.
Nuclear family
Latent functions
Peter principle
Downsizing
2. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Postindustrial society
Social control
Authority
Ascribed status
3. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Homophobia
Role exit
Code of ethics
Education
4. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Disengagement theory
Quantitative research
Dominant ideology
Degradation ceremony
5. 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.
Demography
Concentric-zone theory
Labeling theory
Creationism
6. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Macrosociology
Primary group
Validity
Expressiveness
7. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Monogamy
Evolutionary theory
Multinational corporations
Intergenerational mobility
8. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Wealth
Expressiveness
Multiple-nuclei theory
Functionalist perspective
9. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
White-collar crime
Census
Globalization
Suburb
10. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Demographic transition
Incest taboo
Polygyny
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
11. 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.
Cultural transmission
Alienation
Instrumentality
Polygyny
12. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Life chances
Birthrate
Cultural relativism
Resocialization
13. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Iron law of oligarchy
Classical theory
World systems analysis
Incest taboo
14. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Routine activities theory
Sexism
Traditional authority
Social structure
15. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Political system
Reliability
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Religion
16. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.
Domestic partnership
Research design
Egalitarian family
Conformity
17. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Polygyny
Fertility
Gatekeeping
Innovation
18. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Reference group
Language
Scientific method
Protestant ethic
19. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Gatekeeping
Machismo
Personality
Social inequality
20. 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.
Patrilineal descent
Minority group
Ageism
Achieved status
21. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Negotiation
Invention
Causal logic
Gatekeeping
22. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Esteem
Kinship
Intergenerational mobility
Innovation
23. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Subculture
Generalized others
Curanderismo
Institutional discrimination
24. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Control group
Invention
Latent functions
Victimless crimes
25. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Nonverbal communication
Force
Variable
Social mobility
26. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Postmodern society
Equilibrium model
Social mobility
Discovery
27. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Established sect
Iron law of oligarchy
Incest taboo
Intergenerational mobility
28. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Industrial city
Control variable
Urban ecology
Ecclesia
29. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Glass ceiling
Total institutions
World systems analysis
Authority
30. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Normal accidents
Anomie
Activity theory
Matriarchy
31. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Iron law of oligarchy
Alienation
Intragenerational mobility
Looking-glass self
32. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Social inequality
Culture lag
Community
Survey
33. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Socialism
Homophobia
World systems analysis
Evolutionary theory
34. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Total institutions
Looking-glass self
Exogamy
Informal social control
35. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Postmodern society
Obedience
Evolutionary theory
Out-group
36. 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.
Prejudice
Iron law of oligarchy
Correspondence principle
Wealth
37. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Kinship
Resource mobilization
Multiple-nuclei theory
Hidden curriculum
38. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Growth rate
Incidence
Deviance
Sect
39. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Sample
Affirmative action
Economic system
Urbanism
40. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Sociobiology
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Bureaucracy
Language
41. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Neocolonialism
Random sample
Traditional authority
Causal logic
42. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Matrilineal descent
Small group
Globalization
43. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Gerontology
Traditional authority
Social structure
Reliability
44. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Interview
Mass media
Laissez-faire
Monogamy
45. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Curanderismo
Secondary analysis
Nisei
Looking-glass self
46. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Anomie
Morbidity rates
Family
Education
47. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Segregation
Bilingualism
Observation
Dominant ideology
48. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Informal economy
Latent functions
Status group
Law
49. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Surveillance function
Instrumentality
Trained incapacity
Degradation ceremony
50. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Small group
Nuclear family
Narcotizing dysfunction
Dyad