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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. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Polygamy
Health
Cohabitation
Profane
2. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Ageism
Infant mortality rate
Charismatic authority
Theory
3. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Experimental group
Assimilation
Pluralism
Reliability
4. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Nisei
Health
Sanctions
Sick role
5. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Counterculture
Research design
Role strain
Scientific method
6. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Bureaucracy
Census
Looking-glass self
7. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Opinion leader
Dramaturgical approach
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Infant mortality rate
8. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Informal economy
Society
Rites of passage
Telecommuters
9. The study of various aspects of human society.
Open system
Small group
Social science
Endogamy
10. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Education
Manifest functions
Influence
11. 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.
McDonaldization
Total institutions
Legal-rational authority
Surveillance function
12. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Conformity
Tracking
Labor unions
Proletariat
13. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Underclass
Peter principle
Looking-glass self
14. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Socialism
Social structure
Closed system
Social change
15. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
New social movements
Degradation ceremony
Matriarchy
E-commerce
16. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Bureaucracy
Pluralist model
Gatekeeping
Vital statistics
17. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Validity
Community
Argot
Culture lag
18. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Religious rituals
Anticipatory socialization
Gender roles
19. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Degradation ceremony
Domestic partnership
Rites of passage
Castes
20. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Microsociology
Sociobiology
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Correlation
21. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Resource mobilization
Interview
Health
Functionalist perspective
22. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Sociocultural evolution
Socialism
Life expectancy
E-commerce
23. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Class consciousness
Bureaucratization
Routine activities theory
Incidence
24. A three-member group.
Triad
Obedience
Nonverbal communication
Cultural relativism
25. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Self
Cultural universals
Vertical mobility
Role conflict
26. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Macrosociology
Monopoly
Culture
Wealth
27. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Apartheid
Gerontology
Achieved status
Egalitarian family
28. General practices found in every culture.
Apartheid
Cultural universals
Feminist perspective
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
29. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Ageism
Deviance
Control theory
Authority
30. 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.
Creationism
Verstehen
Proletariat
Adoption
31. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Dependency theory
Total institutions
Hunting-and-gathering society
32. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Vital statistics
Curanderismo
Traditional authority
Negotiated order
33. 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.
Liberation theology
Population pyramid
Functionalist perspective
Elite model
34. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Colonialism
Socialism
Anomie theory of deviance
Population pyramid
35. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Cohabitation
Luddites
Social interaction
Research design
36. Another name for labeling theory.
Infant mortality rate
Domestic partnership
Second shift
Societal-reaction approach
37. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Model or ideal minority
Issei
Hawthorne effect
Amalgamation
38. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Control theory
Voluntary associations
Exploitation theory
Evolutionary theory
39. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Degradation ceremony
Narcotizing dysfunction
Conformity
Goal displacement
40. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Force
Hunting-and-gathering society
Mass media
41. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Bilingualism
Material culture
Intragenerational mobility
Anomie
42. Salaries and wages.
Modernization theory
Income
Extended family
Amalgamation
43. The state of being related to others.
Achieved status
Intergenerational mobility
Prestige
Kinship
44. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
New urban sociology
Intergenerational mobility
Face-work
Industrial society
45. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Social structure
Castes
Culture
Single-parent families
46. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Scientific method
Black power
Bilingualism
Culture shock
47. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Matriarchy
Open system
Postindustrial city
Microsociology
48. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Out-group
Force
Power
Postindustrial city
49. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Secondary group
Capitalism
Society
Affirmative action
50. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Verstehen
Castes
Voluntary associations
Political socialization