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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 society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Nisei
Assimilation
Industrial society
Relative deprivation
2. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Diffusion
Folkways
Sociocultural evolution
3. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Values
Mores
Intragenerational mobility
Endogamy
4. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Victimless crimes
Multinational corporations
Interactionist perspective
Vested interests
5. According to
New urban sociology
Religion
Bureaucratization
Sanctions
6. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Secondary group
Law
Formal organization
7. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Language
Natural science
Profane
Role strain
8. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Labeling theory
Microsociology
Sanctions
Social science
9. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Polyandry
Mores
Looking-glass self
Death rate
10. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Segregation
Coalition
Social science
Personality
11. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Birthrate
Research design
Diffusion
Industrial city
12. 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
Concentric-zone theory
Cognitive theory of development
New urban sociology
13. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Industrial society
Incidence
Negotiation
White-collar crime
14. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Normal accidents
Education
Impression management
Elite model
15. 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.
Tracking
Mass media
Group
Correspondence principle
16. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Hidden curriculum
Status group
Equilibrium model
Experiment
17. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Economic system
Sick role
Horizontal mobility
Nonverbal communication
18. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Ecclesia
Values
Legal-rational authority
Modernization
19. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Protestant ethic
Polygamy
Egalitarian family
McDonaldization
20. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Stratification
Credentialism
Victimless crimes
Ethnocentrism
21. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Dramaturgical approach
Natural science
Slavery
22. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Genocide
Instrumentality
Environmental justice
23. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Random sample
Stereotypes
Self
Total fertility rate (TFR)
24. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Informal social control
Industrial city
Religious beliefs
Curanderismo
25. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Colonialism
Secularization
Social movements
Deindustrialization
26. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Protestant ethic
Cultural transmission
Deviance
Out-group
27. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Hawthorne effect
Terrorism
Personality
Deindustrialization
28. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
False consciousness
Morbidity rates
Modernization theory
Prejudice
29. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
In-group
Research design
Science
Modernization
30. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Assimilation
Polygamy
Adoption
Value neutrality
31. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Social constructionist perspective
Second shift
Victimization surveys
32. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Mortality rate
Technology
Role conflict
Achieved status
33. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Qualitative research
Tracking
Negotiated order
Relative poverty
34. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Subculture
Slavery
Human relations approach
Social role
35. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Legal-rational authority
Endogamy
Credentialism
Class consciousness
36. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Sexism
Incest taboo
Discovery
Formal organization
37. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Ethnic group
Self
Social mobility
Functionalist perspective
38. 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.
Vested interests
Control theory
Class consciousness
Conformity
39. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Colonialism
Experiment
Morbidity rates
Socialism
40. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Familism
Gerontology
Second shift
Absolute poverty
41. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Terrorism
Minority group
Sacred
Sample
42. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Value neutrality
Independent variable
Routine activities theory
Glass ceiling
43. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Anticipatory socialization
Incest taboo
Secularization
Social movements
44. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Expressiveness
Objective method
Societal-reaction approach
Social network
45. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Secondary group
Apartheid
Conformity
Natural science
46. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
In-group
Matrilineal descent
Religious experience
Polyandry
47. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Health
Discrimination
Society
Bilateral descent
48. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Control theory
Opinion leader
Stereotypes
Voluntary associations
49. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Pluralism
Hypothesis
Downsizing
Charismatic authority
50. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Mass media
Causal logic
Status group
Experimental group