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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. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Sample
Serial monogamy
Evolutionary theory
Cohabitation
2. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Familism
Postindustrial society
Goal displacement
Formal norms
3. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Postmodern society
Goal displacement
Closed system
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
4. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Megalopolis
In-group
Traditional authority
Urban ecology
5. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Affirmative action
Death rate
Religion
6. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Scientific management approach
Second shift
Class
7. 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.
Bilateral descent
Folkways
Telecommuters
Argot
8. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Gemeinschaft
Assimilation
Social constructionist perspective
Elite model
9. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Nuclear family
Religion
Verstehen
Language
10. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.
Agrarian society
Socialization
Class consciousness
Mores
11. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Protestant ethic
Human ecology
Megalopolis
Prevalence
12. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Experiment
Prestige
Telecommuters
Personality
13. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Secularization
Role conflict
Adoption
Anticipatory socialization
14. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Role taking
Hunting-and-gathering society
Force
Religious beliefs
15. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Mortality rate
Manifest functions
Innovation
Counterculture
16. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Anticipatory socialization
Sexual harassment
Science
17. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Cohabitation
Credentialism
Symbols
18. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Nisei
Underclass
Activity theory
Polygyny
19. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Familism
Dysfunction
Economic system
Endogamy
20. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Postindustrial city
Symbols
Environmental justice
Incest taboo
21. 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.
Class consciousness
Patriarchy
Prestige
Established sect
22. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Xenocentrism
Racial group
Nuclear family
Hunting-and-gathering society
23. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Gerontology
Mass media
Stratification
Deviance
24. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Environmental justice
Amalgamation
Labor unions
Status
25. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Role taking
Causal logic
Experimental group
Correlation
26. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Life chances
Nonmaterial culture
Crime
New urban sociology
27. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Economic system
Influence
Social science
Social interaction
28. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
False consciousness
Social network
Xenocentrism
Validity
29. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Microsociology
Control group
Counterculture
Second shift
30. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
Kinship
False consciousness
Ethnocentrism
Serial monogamy
31. 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.
Prevalence
Telecommuters
Secondary analysis
Anomie theory of deviance
32. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Vested interests
Secondary analysis
Innovation
Law
33. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Tracking
Mortality rate
Industrial city
Cognitive theory of development
34. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Opinion leader
Extended family
Legal-rational authority
Population pyramid
35. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Secondary analysis
Relative deprivation
Prestige
Diffusion
36. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
World systems analysis
Health
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Sociology
37. 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.
Segregation
Horizontal mobility
Generalized others
Formal social control
38. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Alienation
Norms
Bureaucracy
Looking-glass self
39. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Polygamy
Patriarchy
Hunting-and-gathering society
Sociobiology
40. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Control group
Hidden curriculum
Intergenerational mobility
Religion
41. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Role taking
Status group
Causal logic
Postindustrial society
42. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Colonialism
Model or ideal minority
Contact hypothesis
Class system
43. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Bureaucracy
Role conflict
Bureaucratization
Socialism
44. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Professional criminal
Sanctions
White-collar crime
Observation
45. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Human ecology
Discrimination
Questionnaire
Values
46. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Random sample
Bourgeoisie
Denomination
47. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Sample
Capitalism
Authority
Science
48. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Language
Incest taboo
Equilibrium model
49. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Verstehen
Health
Status
Total fertility rate (TFR)
50. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Significant others
Pluralist model
Dependency theory
Personality