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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. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Invention
Socialism
Opinion leader
Incest taboo
2. The incidence of death in a given population.
Traditional authority
Esteem
Genocide
Mortality rate
3. 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.
Role conflict
Scientific method
Verstehen
Impression management
4. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
New social movements
Victimless crimes
Generalized others
Status
5. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Prestige
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Technology
Hawthorne effect
6. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Wealth
Content analysis
Serial monogamy
7. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Religion
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Traditional authority
Social constructionist perspective
8. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Affirmative action
Religion
Education
Teacher-expectancy effect
9. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Racial group
Profane
Nuclear family
Cognitive theory of development
10. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Morbidity rates
Mortality rate
Triad
11. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Deviance
Scientific method
Law
Stratification
12. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Prejudice
Sociocultural evolution
Innovation
Correlation
13. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Homophobia
Role conflict
Experiment
Crime
14. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Code of ethics
Second shift
Surveillance function
Manifest functions
15. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Secondary analysis
Formal social control
Theory
Education
16. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Sexual harassment
Religious beliefs
Master status
Socialism
17. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Charismatic authority
Deindustrialization
Homophobia
Affirmative action
18. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Single-parent families
Stratification
Science
Labor unions
19. 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.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Bilingualism
Liberation theology
Macrosociology
20. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Sexism
Postindustrial society
Sacred
Voluntary associations
21. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Institutional discrimination
Social movements
Victimless crimes
Credentialism
22. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Creationism
Cult
Institutional discrimination
Single-parent families
23. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Random sample
Incidence
Social inequality
Master status
24. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Power
Legal-rational authority
Verstehen
Absolute poverty
25. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Professional criminal
Ageism
Deindustrialization
Industrial society
26. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Horizontal mobility
Anticipatory socialization
Code of ethics
Class system
27. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
McDonaldization
Dependency theory
Social structure
Intergenerational mobility
28. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Human relations approach
Castes
Legal-rational authority
Anomie
29. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Dependency theory
Ethnic group
Independent variable
30. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Social network
Impression management
Control theory
Terrorism
31. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.
Pluralism
Discovery
Sect
Small group
32. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.
E-commerce
Opinion leader
Group
Exploitation theory
33. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Sexual harassment
Culture shock
Absolute poverty
Power
34. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Informal social control
Human ecology
Sociobiology
35. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Microsociology
Quantitative research
Domestic partnership
Apartheid
36. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Urban ecology
Esteem
Independent variable
Human ecology
37. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Goal displacement
Crime
Symbols
Segregation
38. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Conflict perspective
Polyandry
Proletariat
Nisei
39. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Sociological imagination
Role taking
Horticultural societies
Code of ethics
40. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Independent variable
Religious experience
Urban ecology
Reference group
41. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Bureaucratization
Argot
Innovation
Functionalist perspective
42. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
New social movements
Social structure
Socialization
Discrimination
43. 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.
Theory
New urban sociology
Invention
Mass media
44. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Sociocultural evolution
Social control
Suburb
Differential association
45. 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.
Objective method
Open system
Multinational corporations
Vested interests
46. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Extended family
Human relations approach
Polyandry
Familism
47. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Postmodern society
Relative poverty
Community
48. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Science
Labeling theory
Bilateral descent
Society
49. 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.
Manifest functions
Routine activities theory
Curanderismo
Human relations approach
50. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice
Ethnography
Evolutionary theory