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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Scientific management approach
Second shift
Social inequality
Equilibrium model
2. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Intergenerational mobility
Argot
Morbidity rates
Evolutionary theory
3. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Growth rate
Environmental justice
Quantitative research
Patriarchy
4. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Tracking
Trained incapacity
Socialism
Science
5. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Class
Cognitive theory of development
Reliability
Megalopolis
6. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Nonmaterial culture
Informal norms
Negotiation
Surveillance function
7. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Class system
Obedience
Preindustrial city
Interactionist perspective
8. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Pluralist model
Voluntary associations
Elite model
Downsizing
9. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Anomie
Ideal type
Feminist perspective
Zero population growth (ZPG)
10. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Contact hypothesis
McDonaldization
Primary group
Absolute poverty
11. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Gemeinschaft
Racism
Group
E-commerce
12. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Social movements
Neocolonialism
Social inequality
Objective method
13. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Variable
Growth rate
Exploitation theory
Routine activities theory
14. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Random sample
Nonverbal communication
Gerontology
Social constructionist perspective
15. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Socialization
Amalgamation
Resocialization
Anomie theory of deviance
16. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Established sect
Capitalism
Anti-Semitism
Role exit
17. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Polyandry
Modernization theory
Natural science
Intergenerational mobility
18. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Nuclear family
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Bilingualism
Role conflict
19. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Primary group
Hawthorne effect
Opinion leader
Scientific management approach
20. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Dyad
Death rate
Qualitative research
Negotiated order
21. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Dysfunction
Social change
Proletariat
Stratification
22. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Second shift
Sociobiology
Culture
Serial monogamy
23. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Open system
Relative poverty
In-group
Pluralist model
24. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Degradation ceremony
Nonmaterial culture
Objective method
Sick role
25. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Legal-rational authority
Discovery
Defended neighborhood
Qualitative research
26. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Exogamy
Role strain
Correlation
27. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Industrial society
Anticipatory socialization
Technology
Monogamy
28. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Expressiveness
Sociology
Hypothesis
Luddites
29. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Monopoly
Value neutrality
Deindustrialization
Religion
30. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Stigma
Endogamy
Homophobia
Instrumentality
31. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Politics
Significant others
Dominant ideology
Genocide
32. 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.
Ageism
Liberation theology
Classical theory
Multilinear evolutionary theory
33. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Cohabitation
Economic system
Hawthorne effect
Bureaucratization
34. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Underclass
Social epidemiology
Monopoly
Total fertility rate (TFR)
35. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social role
Primary group
Human relations approach
Class system
36. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Single-parent families
Capitalism
Legal-rational authority
E-commerce
37. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Anomie
Deviance
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
In-group
38. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Bureaucracy
Counterculture
Vital statistics
Hidden curriculum
39. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Technology
Invention
Familism
Victimization surveys
40. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Values
Open system
Monogamy
Natural science
41. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Invention
Face-work
Social network
Norms
42. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Open system
Scientific method
Hidden curriculum
43. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Conformity
Machismo
Intergenerational mobility
Infant mortality rate
44. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Control variable
Monogamy
Impression management
Amalgamation
45. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Interactionist perspective
Adoption
Extended family
Black power
46. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Latent functions
Force
Serial monogamy
Homophobia
47. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Norms
Extended family
Open system
Globalization
48. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Iron law of oligarchy
Informal economy
Open system
49. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Informal social control
New urban sociology
Classical theory
Interactionist perspective
50. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Xenocentrism
Elite model
Experimental group
Bourgeoisie