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CLEP Sociology
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1. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Culture
Political socialization
Protestant ethic
Rites of passage
2. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Argot
Objective method
Observation
Sacred
3. 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.
Small group
Multiple-nuclei theory
Bureaucratization
Social structure
4. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Sacred
Cult
Sociobiology
Negotiated order
5. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Microsociology
Reliability
Language
Postindustrial city
6. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Horizontal mobility
Politics
Socialism
Interview
7. A three-member group.
Vital statistics
Stereotypes
Environmental justice
Triad
8. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Correlation
Generalized others
Glass ceiling
Patrilineal descent
9. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Organized crime
Technology
Achieved status
Matriarchy
10. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Infant mortality rate
Expressiveness
Master status
Matriarchy
11. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.
Class consciousness
Intergenerational mobility
Homophobia
Esteem
12. The incidence of death in a given population.
Legal-rational authority
Mortality rate
Socialism
Reliability
13. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Operational definition
Victimless crimes
Globalization
Quantitative research
14. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Liberation theology
Patrilineal descent
Science
Conformity
15. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Population pyramid
Credentialism
Resource mobilization
16. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Second shift
Correlation
Modernization
Kinship
17. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Control group
Cultural universals
Research design
Experiment
18. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Scientific method
Social institutions
Anticipatory socialization
Deviance
19. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Cultural universals
Sociocultural evolution
Looking-glass self
Reliability
20. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Variable
Terrorism
Religious beliefs
Discovery
21. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Affirmative action
Total institutions
Validity
Control theory
22. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Health
Social interaction
Elite model
Modernization theory
23. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Gender roles
Narcotizing dysfunction
Tracking
Hypothesis
24. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Class
Relative poverty
Self
Total institutions
25. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Law
Social constructionist perspective
Stigma
Goal displacement
26. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Labor unions
Cognitive theory of development
Status
27. 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.
Assimilation
Qualitative research
Ecclesia
Single-parent families
28. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Bourgeoisie
Monogamy
Out-group
29. 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
Out-group
Verstehen
Latent functions
30. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Coalition
Microsociology
White-collar crime
Relative poverty
31. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Sociology
Discrimination
Life chances
Defended neighborhood
32. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Observation
Endogamy
Stigma
Human relations approach
33. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Modernization
Law
Equilibrium model
Differential association
34. 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.
Significant others
Exogamy
Issei
Culture
35. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Social control
Counterculture
Narcotizing dysfunction
Status
36. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Interview
Master status
Classical theory
37. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Protestant ethic
Charismatic authority
Invention
Population pyramid
38. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Exploitation theory
Social institutions
Social interaction
Scientific method
39. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Surveillance function
Monopoly
Normal accidents
Elite model
40. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Social role
Routine activities theory
Control group
Science
41. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Health
False consciousness
Stratification
Nuclear family
42. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Religious beliefs
Content analysis
Disengagement theory
Hidden curriculum
43. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Dominant ideology
Vital statistics
Formal organization
Dependent variable
44. 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.
Dependency theory
Cultural transmission
Capitalism
Stereotypes
45. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Class
Economic system
Gemeinschaft
Pluralist model
46. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Latent functions
Ethnic group
Family
Assimilation
47. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Modernization theory
Telecommuters
Stratification
Ecclesia
48. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Scientific management approach
McDonaldization
Nisei
Manifest functions
49. Governmental social control.
Sociological imagination
New urban sociology
Rites of passage
Law
50. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Economic system
Environmental justice
Multinational corporations
McDonaldization