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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Urban ecology
Role exit
Self
Dominant ideology
2. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Vertical mobility
Classical theory
Equilibrium model
Argot
3. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Norms
Social control
Model or ideal minority
Gerontology
4. 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
Innovation
Demography
Health
5. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Ageism
Subculture
Horticultural societies
Achieved status
6. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Hidden curriculum
Stigma
Dyad
Social change
7. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Neocolonialism
Interactionist perspective
Social interaction
Polyandry
8. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Growth rate
Curanderismo
Qualitative research
9. 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.
Obedience
Incest taboo
New social movements
Generalized others
10. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Theory
Obedience
Second shift
11. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Questionnaire
Social science
Experimental group
Absolute poverty
12. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Personality
Anti-Semitism
E-commerce
Quantitative research
13. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Bureaucracy
Diffusion
Education
Politics
14. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Urbanism
Sociobiology
Serial monogamy
Total fertility rate (TFR)
15. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Social science
Liberation theology
Patrilineal descent
16. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Feminist perspective
New social movements
Correlation
Cohabitation
17. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Alienation
Surveillance function
Serial monogamy
In-group
18. 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.
Telecommuters
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Sexual harassment
Sect
19. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Formal norms
Narcotizing dysfunction
Self
Power
20. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Ethnography
Social institutions
Multilinear evolutionary theory
21. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Technology
E-commerce
Peter principle
Anticipatory socialization
22. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Innovation
Model or ideal minority
Sect
Class consciousness
23. General practices found in every culture.
Professional criminal
Cultural universals
Anticipatory socialization
Income
24. According to
Religion
Sacred
Crime
Family
25. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
White-collar crime
Racial group
Equilibrium model
Genocide
26. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Culture lag
Underclass
Causal logic
Organized crime
27. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Natural science
Xenocentrism
Birthrate
Routine activities theory
28. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Laissez-faire
Force
Telecommuters
Resource mobilization
29. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Political system
Stigma
Suburb
Industrial society
30. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Dependent variable
Exogamy
Education
Independent variable
31. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Organized crime
Horticultural societies
Infant mortality rate
Education
32. Another name for labeling theory.
Dyad
Societal-reaction approach
Legal-rational authority
Community
33. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Terrorism
Research design
Content analysis
Social network
34. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Objective method
Causal logic
Assimilation
35. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Political socialization
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Societal-reaction approach
Religious experience
36. 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.
Role strain
Interview
Power
Organized crime
37. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
In-group
Experiment
Sociological imagination
Education
38. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Morbidity rates
Feminist perspective
Deviance
Open system
39. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Role conflict
Urbanism
Mortality rate
White-collar crime
40. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Social network
Minority group
Protestant ethic
Globalization
41. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Politics
Disengagement theory
Impression management
Coalition
42. 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.
Postmodern society
Gatekeeping
Verstehen
Religious rituals
43. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Culture lag
Life expectancy
Correspondence principle
Crime
44. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Bureaucracy
Underclass
Quantitative research
Open system
45. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Open system
Growth rate
Second shift
46. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Relative deprivation
Research design
Nisei
Gemeinschaft
47. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Religious beliefs
Social science
Social change
Stereotypes
48. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Social change
Exogamy
Mass media
Differential association
49. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Religious beliefs
Established sect
World systems analysis
Exploitation theory
50. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Polygamy
Hypothesis
Colonialism
Mores