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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. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Modernization
Sick role
Cohabitation
Defended neighborhood
2. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Victimization surveys
Victimless crimes
Power
Vested interests
3. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Observation
Tracking
Life expectancy
Personality
4. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Correlation
Reliability
Luddites
Generalized others
5. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Research design
Family
Socialization
Normal accidents
6. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Folkways
Deindustrialization
Endogamy
Hunting-and-gathering society
7. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Luddites
Routine activities theory
Cultural universals
Life chances
8. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Stratification
Mass media
Operational definition
Monogamy
9. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Random sample
Dominant ideology
Group
Victimless crimes
10. The scientific study of population.
Polygamy
Patriarchy
Demography
Multinational corporations
11. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Argot
Value neutrality
False consciousness
Manifest functions
12. 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.
Out-group
Environmental justice
Formal social control
Multiple-nuclei theory
13. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Xenocentrism
Negotiated order
Looking-glass self
14. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Sociobiology
Negotiation
Incidence
Classical theory
15. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Quantitative research
Degradation ceremony
Megalopolis
Sacred
16. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Mortality rate
Reliability
Sociological imagination
Sanctions
17. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Labor unions
Modernization theory
Social role
Slavery
18. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Postindustrial society
Elite model
Machismo
Religious experience
19. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Conflict perspective
Nisei
Formal social control
Vital statistics
20. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Dramaturgical approach
Discovery
Surveillance function
Concentric-zone theory
21. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Status
Open system
Folkways
Gemeinschaft
22. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Folkways
Wealth
Profane
Status
23. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Interview
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Bureaucratization
Informal social control
24. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Charismatic authority
Apartheid
Deindustrialization
Material culture
25. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Vertical mobility
Esteem
Significant others
26. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Gerontology
Segregation
Disengagement theory
Quantitative research
27. 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.
Monopoly
Secularization
Health
Sociological imagination
28. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Anomie
Preindustrial city
Peter principle
29. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Model or ideal minority
Generalized others
Intergenerational mobility
Social science
30. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Cognitive theory of development
Political socialization
Political system
Pluralist model
31. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Triad
Labor unions
Genocide
Microsociology
32. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Social epidemiology
Contact hypothesis
Validity
Infant mortality rate
33. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Hypothesis
Socialism
Values
Negotiated order
34. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Health
Validity
Political socialization
Urbanism
35. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Evolutionary theory
Glass ceiling
Control theory
Social control
36. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Mass media
Incest taboo
Achieved status
Black power
37. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Family
Colonialism
Pluralist model
Interview
38. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Survey
Second shift
Ageism
Theory
39. According to
Resocialization
Religion
Social inequality
Charismatic authority
40. 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.
Industrial city
Capitalism
Prevalence
Vested interests
41. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Discrimination
Elite model
Polygamy
Economic system
42. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Stratification
Total institutions
Ethnic group
Teacher-expectancy effect
43. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Verstehen
Hawthorne effect
Agrarian society
Absolute poverty
44. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Ascribed status
Labor unions
Urban ecology
Manifest functions
45. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Gesellschaft
Personality
Social mobility
Content analysis
46. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Reference group
Education
Social structure
Microsociology
47. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Scientific method
Verstehen
Incidence
Exogamy
48. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Mortality rate
Serial monogamy
Control group
Quantitative research
49. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Force
Sanctions
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Gender roles
50. 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.
Personality
Second shift
Liberation theology
Technology