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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Mass media
Environmental justice
Class
Experimental group
2. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Ethnocentrism
Narcotizing dysfunction
Minority group
Informal economy
3. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Polygyny
Narcotizing dysfunction
Formal norms
Control variable
4. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Ascribed status
Birthrate
Infant mortality rate
Master status
5. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Vested interests
Evolutionary theory
Social interaction
6. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Social constructionist perspective
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Polyandry
Informal economy
7. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Esteem
Elite model
World systems analysis
Community
8. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Pluralist model
Deviance
Capitalism
Power
9. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Latent functions
Prestige
Small group
10. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Credentialism
Formal organization
Achieved status
Concentric-zone theory
11. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Victimless crimes
Life chances
Contact hypothesis
Morbidity rates
12. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Suburb
Genocide
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Manifest functions
13. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Mass media
Evolutionary theory
Reliability
Death rate
14. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Alienation
Personality
Mores
Verstehen
15. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Mortality rate
Class
Sexism
Sick role
16. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Contact hypothesis
Closed system
Infant mortality rate
Profane
17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Status group
Cultural transmission
Conformity
18. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Economic system
Vested interests
Sanctions
Charismatic authority
19. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Established sect
Modernization theory
Cultural relativism
Nisei
20. 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.
Relative poverty
Multiple-nuclei theory
Power elite
Model or ideal minority
21. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Ethnography
Demographic transition
Death rate
Status group
22. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Role exit
Egalitarian family
Underclass
Scientific method
23. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Resocialization
Looking-glass self
Social movements
Machismo
24. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Political system
Mortality rate
Sick role
Social network
25. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Capitalism
Anomie
Exploitation theory
Zero population growth (ZPG)
26. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Formal organization
Value neutrality
Research design
Variable
27. 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.
Social epidemiology
Anomie theory of deviance
Ethnography
Deindustrialization
28. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Culture
Life expectancy
Survey
Ethnic group
29. 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.
Nonmaterial culture
Gerontology
Rites of passage
Class consciousness
30. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Sect
Ethnography
Interview
Social constructionist perspective
31. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Exploitation theory
Code of ethics
Population pyramid
Multinational corporations
32. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Power elite
Stereotypes
Apartheid
Religious rituals
33. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Traditional authority
Self
Monogamy
Role conflict
34. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Gatekeeping
Community
Patriarchy
Master status
35. 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.
Expressiveness
Industrial city
Prevalence
McDonaldization
36. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Subculture
Matrilineal descent
Theory
Capitalism
37. 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.
Interactionist perspective
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Wealth
Research design
38. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Castes
Life expectancy
Hidden curriculum
Community
39. 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.
Neocolonialism
Ecclesia
Nonverbal communication
Modernization
40. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Terrorism
Homophobia
Sexism
Argot
41. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Causal logic
Creationism
Scientific method
Sanctions
42. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Sociological imagination
Observation
Survey
Classical theory
43. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Bureaucratization
Sociocultural evolution
Profane
Suburb
44. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Income
Castes
Symbols
Amalgamation
45. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Conflict perspective
Achieved status
Obedience
Denomination
46. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Social institutions
Xenocentrism
Assimilation
Goal displacement
47. The incidence of death in a given population.
Liberation theology
Informal economy
Scientific method
Mortality rate
48. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
White-collar crime
Formal norms
Resource mobilization
Small group
49. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Surveillance function
Resocialization
White-collar crime
Patrilineal descent
50. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Sample
Evolutionary theory
Verstehen
Creationism