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CLEP Sociology
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1. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Formal organization
Dependent variable
Stereotypes
Mass media
2. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Formal social control
Survey
Traditional authority
Macrosociology
3. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Theory
Value neutrality
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Culture shock
4. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Birthrate
Role taking
Sanctions
Extended family
5. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Resocialization
Sexism
Survey
Deindustrialization
6. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Conflict perspective
Peter principle
Single-parent families
Bureaucratization
7. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Expressiveness
Discovery
Language
Reference group
8. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Underclass
New social movements
Telecommuters
Discrimination
9. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Curanderismo
Second shift
Trained incapacity
Traditional authority
10. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Value neutrality
Second shift
Role exit
Social interaction
11. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
E-commerce
Survey
Validity
Social interaction
12. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
Sacred
Group
Polygyny
Narcotizing dysfunction
13. The incidence of death in a given population.
Crime
Infant mortality rate
Social inequality
Mortality rate
14. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Xenocentrism
Suburb
Ethnography
Experimental group
15. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Personality
Reliability
Class
Life chances
16. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Triad
Bureaucratization
Nonmaterial culture
17. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Castes
Sociology
Exploitation theory
Qualitative research
18. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
Terrorism
Symbols
Dependency theory
Reference group
19. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Mass media
Absolute poverty
Questionnaire
Social institutions
20. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Multinational corporations
Religious beliefs
Self
Hidden curriculum
21. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Census
Survey
Endogamy
Sexual harassment
22. Salaries and wages.
Voluntary associations
Income
Code of ethics
Power elite
23. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Power
Anti-Semitism
Achieved status
24. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Out-group
Megalopolis
Face-work
Equilibrium model
25. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Apartheid
Proletariat
Neocolonialism
Matrilineal descent
26. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Labeling theory
Downsizing
Black power
27. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Classical theory
Underclass
Correlation
Religious beliefs
28. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.
Hypothesis
Differential association
Role strain
Elite model
29. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Serial monogamy
Sociocultural evolution
Gender roles
Instrumentality
30. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Activity theory
Power
Population pyramid
Societal-reaction approach
31. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
New urban sociology
Cohabitation
Conflict perspective
Industrial city
32. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Ethnic group
Assimilation
Denomination
Surveillance function
33. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Ethnic group
Religious experience
Class system
Racism
34. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Megalopolis
Gesellschaft
Sociobiology
Code of ethics
35. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Experimental group
Multinational corporations
Elite model
Gemeinschaft
36. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Glass ceiling
Diffusion
Bourgeoisie
Nonverbal communication
37. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Correspondence principle
Demographic transition
Role exit
Traditional authority
38. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Surveillance function
Cohabitation
Modernization theory
Racism
39. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Sociobiology
Secondary group
Diffusion
Bourgeoisie
40. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Obedience
Sociocultural evolution
Dramaturgical approach
Politics
41. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Familism
Postmodern society
Technology
Law
42. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Expressiveness
White-collar crime
Social network
World systems analysis
43. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Sexism
Social role
Instrumentality
Social movements
44. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Census
Sociocultural evolution
Culture
Informal norms
45. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Classical theory
Health
Power
Expressiveness
46. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Discovery
Anticipatory socialization
Human ecology
Second shift
47. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Monogamy
Control group
Community
Objective method
48. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Monogamy
Denomination
Postmodern society
Defended neighborhood
49. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Social constructionist perspective
Authority
Narcotizing dysfunction
Cultural transmission
50. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Technology
Patrilineal descent
Scientific management approach
Hypothesis