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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 respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Differential association
Social mobility
Prestige
Gemeinschaft
2. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Formal social control
New social movements
Victimization surveys
Prestige
3. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Pluralist model
Telecommuters
Differential association
4. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
World systems analysis
Creationism
Education
Downsizing
5. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Total institutions
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Conformity
6. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Neocolonialism
Symbols
Gerontology
7. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
New social movements
Environmental justice
Xenocentrism
Tracking
8. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Concentric-zone theory
Prestige
Human relations approach
Quantitative research
9. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Social constructionist perspective
Social network
Goal displacement
Creationism
10. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Force
Operational definition
Validity
Role exit
11. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Degradation ceremony
Infant mortality rate
Classical theory
Microsociology
12. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Prevalence
Religion
Prestige
Scientific method
13. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Bureaucratization
Capitalism
Machismo
Functionalist perspective
14. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Deviance
Status
White-collar crime
Absolute poverty
15. 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
Absolute poverty
Observation
Elite model
16. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.
Relative deprivation
Incest taboo
Dramaturgical approach
Operational definition
17. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Cultural universals
Social inequality
Nonverbal communication
Total fertility rate (TFR)
18. 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.
Innovation
Black power
False consciousness
Agrarian society
19. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Sample
Bureaucracy
Globalization
Industrial society
20. Governmental social control.
Cultural universals
Modernization theory
Law
Innovation
21. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Culture
Status group
Life expectancy
Routine activities theory
22. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Slavery
Social change
Incidence
Prestige
23. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Deindustrialization
Nonmaterial culture
Sociology
Natural science
24. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Interactionist perspective
Power elite
Role exit
Vital statistics
25. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Technology
Argot
Death rate
Equilibrium model
26. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Adoption
Single-parent families
Xenocentrism
Role strain
27. According to
Socialization
Religion
Disengagement theory
Incidence
28. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Operational definition
Power
Social movements
29. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Anti-Semitism
Latent functions
Defended neighborhood
Political system
30. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Established sect
Egalitarian family
Symbols
31. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Causal logic
Anti-Semitism
Health
Familism
32. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Bilingualism
Ethnography
Glass ceiling
33. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.
Vested interests
Creationism
Language
Role conflict
34. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Globalization
Gender roles
Reference group
Equilibrium model
35. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Dominant ideology
Secondary analysis
Informal social control
Luddites
36. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Discovery
Activity theory
Innovation
Societal-reaction approach
37. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Monopoly
Relative poverty
Elite model
Growth rate
38. 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.
Preindustrial city
Narcotizing dysfunction
New urban sociology
Intergenerational mobility
39. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Experimental group
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Authority
Secondary analysis
40. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Intragenerational mobility
Ageism
Racism
Control theory
41. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Serial monogamy
Resocialization
Anticipatory socialization
Horticultural societies
42. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Labor unions
Health
Apartheid
Legal-rational authority
43. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Credentialism
Ascribed status
Homophobia
Normal accidents
44. 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.
Creationism
Peter principle
McDonaldization
Proletariat
45. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Population pyramid
Social control
Intergenerational mobility
Single-parent families
46. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Established sect
Role taking
Variable
Deindustrialization
47. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Material culture
Qualitative research
Anomie theory of deviance
Formal norms
48. 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.
Sick role
Control theory
Religious experience
Institutional discrimination
49. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Dependent variable
Mores
Peter principle
Industrial society
50. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Underclass
Endogamy
Operational definition
Glass ceiling