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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Prejudice
Language
Life chances
Socialism
2. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Invention
Cognitive theory of development
Xenocentrism
Institutional discrimination
3. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Bureaucratization
Anti-Semitism
Racial group
Nonmaterial culture
4. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Cultural universals
Norms
Horticultural societies
Instrumentality
5. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Culture
Sanctions
Multinational corporations
6. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Formal social control
Science
Survey
In-group
7. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Expressiveness
Horticultural societies
Interactionist perspective
Social control
8. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Social institutions
Anti-Semitism
Secularization
Death rate
9. 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.
Anomie theory of deviance
Traditional authority
Degradation ceremony
Bourgeoisie
10. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Telecommuters
Personality
Causal logic
11. A two-member group.
Out-group
Narcotizing dysfunction
Cultural universals
Dyad
12. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Castes
Political socialization
Societal-reaction approach
Voluntary associations
13. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Pluralism
Voluntary associations
Egalitarian family
Material culture
14. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Primary group
Observation
Prevalence
Victimization surveys
15. 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.
McDonaldization
Unilinear evolutionary theory
New urban sociology
Authority
16. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Generalized others
Growth rate
Preindustrial city
Income
17. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Degradation ceremony
Conformity
Normal accidents
Fertility
18. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Adoption
Random sample
Victimization surveys
19. 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.
World systems analysis
Family
Anomie theory of deviance
Machismo
20. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Reference group
Validity
Industrial city
Vital statistics
21. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Ethnocentrism
Control variable
Social interaction
Globalization
22. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Conformity
Dyad
Societal-reaction approach
Monogamy
23. A society in which men dominate family decision making.
Infant mortality rate
Sociobiology
Patriarchy
Power elite
24. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.
Anticipatory socialization
Egalitarian family
Patriarchy
Segregation
25. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.
Domestic partnership
Formal norms
Vital statistics
Social constructionist perspective
26. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Labor unions
Formal social control
Conformity
Social control
27. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Social movements
Machismo
Innovation
Cult
28. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Organized crime
Contact hypothesis
In-group
Reliability
29. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Anomie
Power
Values
30. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Life chances
False consciousness
Symbols
Prestige
31. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Population pyramid
Research design
Victimless crimes
Diffusion
32. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.
Resource mobilization
Incest taboo
Serial monogamy
Anticipatory socialization
33. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Formal norms
Social constructionist perspective
Iron law of oligarchy
Science
34. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Disengagement theory
Conflict perspective
Class system
Machismo
35. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Culture lag
Ethnocentrism
Polyandry
McDonaldization
36. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Sociocultural evolution
Minority group
Victimless crimes
Trained incapacity
37. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Pluralism
Language
Patrilineal descent
Force
38. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Self
Power
Infant mortality rate
Activity theory
39. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Incest taboo
Sociology
Triad
Matrilineal descent
40. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Human ecology
Minority group
Elite model
Experiment
41. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Macrosociology
Interview
Capitalism
Sexism
42. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Experiment
E-commerce
Dyad
Postindustrial society
43. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Relative deprivation
Gesellschaft
Minority group
Control theory
44. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Role conflict
Matrilineal descent
Dramaturgical approach
Egalitarian family
45. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Labor unions
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Endogamy
Ethnography
46. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Culture lag
Sociocultural evolution
Open system
Social role
47. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Social mobility
Reliability
Cohabitation
Correlation
48. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Reliability
Dependent variable
Expressiveness
Hidden curriculum
49. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Manifest functions
Secondary group
Castes
Downsizing
50. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Nuclear family
Patriarchy
Stratification
Proletariat