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CLEP Sociology
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1. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Status
Neocolonialism
Vital statistics
Sect
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.
Pluralist model
Telecommuters
Racism
Closed system
3. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Stigma
False consciousness
Matrilineal descent
Goal displacement
4. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Social institutions
Questionnaire
Multinational corporations
Cult
5. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Invention
Influence
Power elite
Minority group
6. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Pluralism
Ethnocentrism
Impression management
Horticultural societies
7. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Underclass
New social movements
Protestant ethic
Counterculture
8. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Nuclear family
Invention
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Birthrate
9. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Nisei
Experimental group
Deviance
Routine activities theory
10. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Innovation
Megalopolis
Bureaucracy
Microsociology
11. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Total institutions
Political socialization
In-group
12. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Ideal type
Closed system
Science
Politics
13. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Postindustrial city
Suburb
Hypothesis
Discovery
14. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Operational definition
Discrimination
Looking-glass self
Routine activities theory
15. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Relative deprivation
Concentric-zone theory
Postindustrial city
Social institutions
16. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Social science
Cult
Nisei
Polygamy
17. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Observation
Role conflict
Sick role
Neocolonialism
18. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Innovation
Apartheid
Manifest functions
Affirmative action
19. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Telecommuters
Folkways
Birthrate
Adoption
20. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Patriarchy
Language
Conformity
Master status
21. 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.
Bourgeoisie
Vertical mobility
Sect
Colonialism
22. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Correspondence principle
Informal social control
Research design
Informal economy
23. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Deviance
Cultural universals
Classical theory
Politics
24. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Control group
Mores
Curanderismo
25. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Deviance
Survey
Influence
Victimization surveys
26. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Routine activities theory
Expressiveness
Cultural relativism
Secondary group
27. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Human ecology
Symbols
In-group
Invention
28. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Authority
Natural science
Normal accidents
Looking-glass self
29. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Language
Prestige
Secondary analysis
Curanderismo
30. Salaries and wages.
Normal accidents
Formal organization
Income
Control group
31. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Bourgeoisie
Contact hypothesis
Iron law of oligarchy
Counterculture
32. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Telecommuters
Extended family
Role exit
Counterculture
33. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Credentialism
Vital statistics
Life expectancy
34. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Education
Family
Social constructionist perspective
Informal social control
35. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Technology
Gemeinschaft
Informal norms
Secondary group
36. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Racism
Intragenerational mobility
Deindustrialization
Machismo
37. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Anticipatory socialization
Evolutionary theory
Sample
Secularization
38. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Social institutions
Closed system
Downsizing
Subculture
39. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Polygamy
Infant mortality rate
New social movements
Ideal type
40. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Dysfunction
Secularization
Discovery
Questionnaire
41. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Familism
Sacred
Social interaction
Theory
42. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Symbols
Modernization theory
Human relations approach
Social role
43. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Social network
Human relations approach
Class consciousness
Activity theory
44. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Alienation
Scientific management approach
Discovery
Socialism
45. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Scientific management approach
False consciousness
Theory
Ecclesia
46. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Conflict perspective
Cohabitation
Triad
Suburb
47. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Urbanism
False consciousness
Counterculture
Gender roles
48. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Familism
Globalization
Black power
Anomie theory of deviance
49. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Code of ethics
Sociobiology
Negotiation
Differential association
50. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Status group
Degradation ceremony
Ideal type
Culture lag