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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 conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Vested interests
Relative deprivation
Patrilineal descent
Gemeinschaft
2. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Familism
Instrumentality
Society
Serial monogamy
3. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Victimless crimes
Primary group
Out-group
Control variable
4. 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.
Discovery
Defended neighborhood
False consciousness
Generalized others
5. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Dyad
Ecclesia
Industrial city
Curanderismo
6. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Established sect
Income
Gerontology
Achieved status
7. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Hidden curriculum
Birthrate
Causal logic
Surveillance function
8. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Adoption
Cognitive theory of development
Society
9. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
New urban sociology
Diffusion
Subculture
Kinship
10. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
Independent variable
Hawthorne effect
Sociological imagination
Cognitive theory of development
11. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Social structure
Social inequality
Social role
Protestant ethic
12. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Pluralism
Value neutrality
Significant others
Personality
13. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Prestige
Formal social control
Anticipatory socialization
14. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Goal displacement
Qualitative research
Agrarian society
Innovation
15. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Esteem
Validity
Sociobiology
Status
16. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Contact hypothesis
Environmental justice
Cult
17. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Independent variable
Urbanism
Culture
Content analysis
18. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Class consciousness
Open system
Closed system
Role taking
19. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Qualitative research
Growth rate
Opinion leader
Relative poverty
20. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Protestant ethic
Industrial city
Postindustrial society
Defended neighborhood
21. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Hypothesis
Dyad
Environmental justice
Significant others
22. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Polygyny
Peter principle
Force
Terrorism
23. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Organized crime
Segregation
Scientific method
Horizontal mobility
24. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Neocolonialism
Preindustrial city
Bureaucracy
New social movements
25. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Deviance
Single-parent families
Castes
Negotiated order
26. 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.
Verstehen
Urbanism
Dysfunction
Tracking
27. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Symbols
Social structure
Labeling theory
Capitalism
28. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Neocolonialism
Teacher-expectancy effect
Social epidemiology
Growth rate
29. Another name for labeling theory.
Theory
Colonialism
Societal-reaction approach
Labeling theory
30. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Prejudice
Dominant ideology
Gerontology
31. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Vertical mobility
Affirmative action
Class system
Gender roles
32. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Total institutions
Gerontology
Out-group
Control variable
33. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Hawthorne effect
Opinion leader
Class
Megalopolis
34. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Correspondence principle
Cognitive theory of development
Social inequality
Correlation
35. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Significant others
Dominant ideology
Observation
Value neutrality
36. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Denomination
Macrosociology
Random sample
Sacred
37. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Tracking
Dysfunction
Neocolonialism
Monopoly
38. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Legal-rational authority
Amalgamation
Questionnaire
Bureaucratization
39. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Control theory
Differential association
Discrimination
Exogamy
40. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Castes
Secularization
Protestant ethic
Racial group
41. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Secondary group
Labeling theory
Wealth
Operational definition
42. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Significant others
Stereotypes
Feminist perspective
Dyad
43. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Value neutrality
Nuclear family
Bureaucratization
Economic system
44. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Agrarian society
Authority
Incest taboo
Extended family
45. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Sexual harassment
Urbanism
Scientific method
Role exit
46. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Causal logic
Stratification
Mass media
Class system
47. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Fertility
Traditional authority
Hawthorne effect
Bureaucracy
48. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Dyad
Social epidemiology
Affirmative action
Labor unions
49. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Activity theory
Force
Manifest functions
Tracking
50. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Normal accidents
Luddites
Dysfunction
Industrial society