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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Role conflict
Multinational corporations
Postindustrial city
Dyad
2. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Wealth
Postmodern society
Operational definition
Established sect
3. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Dyad
Conformity
Pluralist model
4. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Crime
Influence
Observation
Ascribed status
5. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Science
Questionnaire
Theory
Resource mobilization
6. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Gatekeeping
Sanctions
Routine activities theory
Expressiveness
7. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Industrial society
Sanctions
Class
Globalization
8. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Familism
Prevalence
Social mobility
Subculture
9. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Total institutions
Intragenerational mobility
Matrilineal descent
Mass media
10. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Sample
Obedience
Demography
Legal-rational authority
11. The study of various aspects of human society.
Routine activities theory
Relative poverty
Social science
Sick role
12. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Variable
Scientific management approach
Social structure
Demographic transition
13. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
White-collar crime
Sanctions
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Life expectancy
14. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Objective method
Hypothesis
Health
Census
15. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Patrilineal descent
Hidden curriculum
Labor unions
Cognitive theory of development
16. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Contact hypothesis
Experimental group
Nonmaterial culture
Sect
17. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Sexism
Familism
False consciousness
Multilinear evolutionary theory
18. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Counterculture
Bilingualism
Resource mobilization
Amalgamation
19. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Modernization theory
Death rate
Ecclesia
Culture lag
20. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Peter principle
Kinship
Total fertility rate (TFR)
21. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Formal norms
Control variable
Formal social control
Negotiated order
22. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Horizontal mobility
Professional criminal
Crime
Bilateral descent
23. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Quantitative research
Cultural relativism
Secularization
Argot
24. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Machismo
Deindustrialization
Feminist perspective
Face-work
25. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Research design
Nonmaterial culture
Force
Patrilineal descent
26. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Political socialization
Urban ecology
Achieved status
Out-group
27. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Validity
Gatekeeping
Dependency theory
Serial monogamy
28. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Single-parent families
Luddites
Culture
Industrial society
29. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Familism
Status
Glass ceiling
Society
30. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Small group
Morbidity rates
Fertility
Gesellschaft
31. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Religious experience
Discrimination
Racial group
32. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Manifest functions
Single-parent families
Obedience
Death rate
33. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Neocolonialism
Growth rate
Social role
Diffusion
34. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Closed system
Minority group
Sexual harassment
Reference group
35. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Relative poverty
Quantitative research
Endogamy
Total fertility rate (TFR)
36. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Informal economy
Dependent variable
Hidden curriculum
Contact hypothesis
37. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Random sample
Glass ceiling
Ethnic group
Impression management
38. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Social constructionist perspective
Bilingualism
Theory
Matriarchy
39. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Serial monogamy
Teacher-expectancy effect
Nonmaterial culture
Growth rate
40. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
White-collar crime
Life chances
Interview
Classical theory
41. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Force
Activity theory
Law
Social institutions
42. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Labeling theory
Role conflict
Colonialism
Income
43. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Correspondence principle
Dysfunction
Sexual harassment
Functionalist perspective
44. 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.
Single-parent families
Instrumentality
Affirmative action
Assimilation
45. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential association
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Assimilation
Megalopolis
46. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Discovery
Nonverbal communication
Culture
Correlation
47. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Affirmative action
Variable
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Labor unions
48. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Endogamy
Family
Social inequality
Alienation
49. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Cohabitation
Sociocultural evolution
Politics
Gesellschaft
50. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Formal organization
Self
Model or ideal minority
Resocialization