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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 form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Industrial city
Primary group
Serial monogamy
Sociology
2. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Expressiveness
Glass ceiling
Significant others
Victimless crimes
3. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Death rate
Master status
Societal-reaction approach
Curanderismo
4. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Gesellschaft
Infant mortality rate
Cultural transmission
Unilinear evolutionary theory
5. 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
Latent functions
Proletariat
Role exit
6. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Denomination
Professional criminal
Gender roles
Operational definition
7. 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.
Anomie theory of deviance
Multiple-nuclei theory
Achieved status
Classical theory
8. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Alienation
Expressiveness
Issei
Total institutions
9. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Bureaucracy
Resource mobilization
Self
Incest taboo
10. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Vital statistics
Liberation theology
Postindustrial city
Value neutrality
11. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Hidden curriculum
Second shift
Social constructionist perspective
Multiple-nuclei theory
12. 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.
Minority group
Theory
Creationism
Values
13. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Model or ideal minority
Urbanism
Relative poverty
Ideal type
14. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Postmodern society
Role conflict
Power elite
15. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Values
Opinion leader
Hunting-and-gathering society
Affirmative action
16. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
White-collar crime
Conformity
Dramaturgical approach
Sanctions
17. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Castes
Apartheid
Black power
Population pyramid
18. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Environmental justice
Sexual harassment
Labeling theory
Bilateral descent
19. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Preindustrial city
Neocolonialism
Issei
Total fertility rate (TFR)
20. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Sacred
Bourgeoisie
Self
Downsizing
21. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Dominant ideology
Curanderismo
Fertility
Laissez-faire
22. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Sociological imagination
Law
Personality
Modernization
23. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Life expectancy
Quantitative research
Conflict perspective
Incest taboo
24. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Liberation theology
Degradation ceremony
Victimless crimes
Polyandry
25. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Nonmaterial culture
Symbols
Postindustrial society
Anti-Semitism
26. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Racial group
Denomination
Surveillance function
Sexism
27. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Primary group
Adoption
Exploitation theory
Ascribed status
28. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Credentialism
Causal logic
Objective method
Mortality rate
29. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Organized crime
Sacred
Research design
Routine activities theory
30. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Out-group
Classical theory
Counterculture
Minority group
31. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Disengagement theory
Role taking
Experiment
Opinion leader
32. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Class consciousness
Vertical mobility
Sociological imagination
Manifest functions
33. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Exploitation theory
Growth rate
Scientific management approach
Ideal type
34. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Informal economy
Social epidemiology
Correspondence principle
Stratification
35. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Nonmaterial culture
Objective method
Language
36. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Esteem
Bureaucratization
Sexism
37. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Census
Social role
Dramaturgical approach
McDonaldization
38. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Sample
Family
Classical theory
Force
39. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Religious experience
Discovery
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Nonverbal communication
40. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Ecclesia
Profane
Downsizing
Horticultural societies
41. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Closed system
Life expectancy
Mores
Pluralism
42. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Labeling theory
New social movements
Charismatic authority
43. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Religious rituals
Dominant ideology
Telecommuters
Mortality rate
44. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Health
Goal displacement
Hidden curriculum
Manifest functions
45. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Bureaucracy
Underclass
McDonaldization
Manifest functions
46. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Societal-reaction approach
Looking-glass self
Religious rituals
Social mobility
47. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Content analysis
Dependency theory
Looking-glass self
Labeling theory
48. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Status group
Subculture
Closed system
Class
49. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Norms
Modernization
Monopoly
Matriarchy
50. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Egalitarian family
Politics
Argot
Norms