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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Globalization
Voluntary associations
Manifest functions
Surveillance function
2. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Reference group
Multiple-nuclei theory
Endogamy
Role conflict
3. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Conformity
Discovery
Fertility
Resource mobilization
4. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Growth rate
Variable
Social epidemiology
Total institutions
5. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Segregation
Experimental group
Religion
Bureaucratization
6. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Social control
Dependent variable
Suburb
Secondary group
7. 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.
Negotiation
Objective method
Research design
Sociocultural evolution
8. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Vested interests
Preindustrial city
Sociology
Pluralist model
9. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Influence
Labor unions
Sexism
Secondary analysis
10. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Socialism
Endogamy
Material culture
New urban sociology
11. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Sexism
Peter principle
Socialism
Relative poverty
12. 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.
Verstehen
Values
Sociocultural evolution
Peter principle
13. 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.
Profane
Culture lag
Liberation theology
Formal norms
14. 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.
Ecclesia
Pluralist model
Diffusion
Religious experience
15. 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.
Sample
Multiple-nuclei theory
White-collar crime
Agrarian society
16. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Peter principle
Iron law of oligarchy
Urbanism
Informal economy
17. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Segregation
Suburb
Differential association
Fertility
18. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Mores
Social constructionist perspective
Creationism
Defended neighborhood
19. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Vertical mobility
Role exit
Tracking
Ageism
20. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Nisei
Familism
Informal norms
Multilinear evolutionary theory
21. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Pluralism
Bureaucratization
Culture shock
Patriarchy
22. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Role taking
Interview
Sick role
White-collar crime
23. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Mores
Vital statistics
Glass ceiling
Horticultural societies
24. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Matrilineal descent
Modernization
Formal organization
World systems analysis
25. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Sociobiology
Secularization
Natural science
Research design
26. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Independent variable
McDonaldization
Wealth
Control group
27. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Opinion leader
Cultural transmission
Pluralist model
Laissez-faire
28. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Terrorism
Significant others
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Concentric-zone theory
29. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Variable
Experiment
Profane
Traditional authority
30. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Monogamy
Agrarian society
Political socialization
Religious experience
31. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Relative deprivation
Bureaucracy
Argot
Absolute poverty
32. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Negotiated order
Correlation
Mass media
Nonmaterial culture
33. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Gesellschaft
Demographic transition
Rites of passage
34. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Cult
Pluralist model
Bureaucratization
Underclass
35. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Income
Negotiated order
Invention
36. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Random sample
Formal social control
Dramaturgical approach
Curanderismo
37. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Laissez-faire
Social epidemiology
Degradation ceremony
Credentialism
38. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Charismatic authority
Intragenerational mobility
Voluntary associations
Norms
39. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Human ecology
Pluralism
Independent variable
Horticultural societies
40. 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.
Hypothesis
Vested interests
Culture
Adoption
41. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Class system
Quantitative research
Informal norms
Sociocultural evolution
42. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Degradation ceremony
Causal logic
Resocialization
Authority
43. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Influence
Apartheid
Sacred
Norms
44. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Class consciousness
Labor unions
Discrimination
Underclass
45. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Modernization
New social movements
Theory
Ethnography
46. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Cultural transmission
Horizontal mobility
Closed system
Elite model
47. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Resocialization
Exploitation theory
Postindustrial society
Pluralism
48. 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.
Informal economy
Anomie theory of deviance
Defended neighborhood
Human relations approach
49. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Colonialism
Discovery
Sexual harassment
Community
50. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Demography
Bilingualism
Triad
New social movements