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CLEP Sociology
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1. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Preindustrial city
Sect
Affirmative action
Liberation theology
2. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Intergenerational mobility
Social science
Role exit
Scientific management approach
3. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Formal norms
Adoption
Cohabitation
Counterculture
4. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Slavery
Mortality rate
Socialism
5. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Economic system
Denomination
Incidence
Nisei
6. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Folkways
Discrimination
Conformity
Downsizing
7. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Society
Disengagement theory
Triad
Education
8. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Organized crime
Morbidity rates
Bureaucracy
9. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Demographic transition
Horizontal mobility
Narcotizing dysfunction
Census
10. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Power
Relative deprivation
Vested interests
Capitalism
11. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Social epidemiology
Morbidity rates
Ageism
Expressiveness
12. Another name for labeling theory.
Social constructionist perspective
Mortality rate
Victimless crimes
Societal-reaction approach
13. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Suburb
Intragenerational mobility
Multinational corporations
Pluralism
14. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Credentialism
Socialization
Extended family
Prestige
15. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
Status
Extended family
Environmental justice
Luddites
16. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Self
Religion
World systems analysis
Victimization surveys
17. 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.
Operational definition
Affirmative action
Ecclesia
Research design
18. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Personality
Income
Suburb
Dramaturgical approach
19. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.
Profane
Established sect
Sociocultural evolution
Socialization
20. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Mortality rate
Organized crime
Racial group
Economic system
21. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Status group
Serial monogamy
Birthrate
Political system
22. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Sexual harassment
Master status
Anticipatory socialization
Issei
23. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.
Political socialization
Generalized others
Goal displacement
Matriarchy
24. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Innovation
False consciousness
Polygyny
Nuclear family
25. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Institutional discrimination
Social movements
Informal economy
McDonaldization
26. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Material culture
Evolutionary theory
Degradation ceremony
Homophobia
27. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Language
Prestige
Interactionist perspective
Material culture
28. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Social role
Mass media
Microsociology
Gemeinschaft
29. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Value neutrality
Survey
Influence
Gerontology
30. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Anti-Semitism
Independent variable
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Globalization
31. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Social role
Segregation
Technology
Hidden curriculum
32. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Cognitive theory of development
Bureaucracy
Reliability
Egalitarian family
33. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Classical theory
Incest taboo
Technology
Secularization
34. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Resource mobilization
Adoption
Human relations approach
Symbols
35. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Human ecology
Institutional discrimination
Iron law of oligarchy
Xenocentrism
36. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Norms
Social structure
Role exit
Concentric-zone theory
37. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Cultural transmission
Out-group
Sociocultural evolution
Labor unions
38. 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.
Family
Social inequality
Master status
Reference group
39. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Formal organization
Growth rate
Gemeinschaft
Social network
40. 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.
Power elite
Folkways
Vital statistics
Organized crime
41. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Victimization surveys
Discrimination
Laissez-faire
Formal organization
42. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Quantitative research
Secularization
Domestic partnership
Sick role
43. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Observation
Stigma
Gemeinschaft
Anticipatory socialization
44. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Resocialization
Bilateral descent
Informal social control
Primary group
45. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
False consciousness
Social mobility
Formal norms
Open system
46. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Sociobiology
New urban sociology
Alienation
Genocide
47. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Social interaction
Demography
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Industrial city
48. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Patriarchy
Reference group
Sociobiology
Teacher-expectancy effect
49. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Group
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Surveillance function
50. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Dominant ideology
Social movements
Informal norms
Closed system