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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. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Control group
Hidden curriculum
Authority
Life chances
2. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Code of ethics
Nonverbal communication
Control group
Human relations approach
3. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Traditional authority
Total institutions
Matriarchy
Vested interests
4. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Informal economy
Macrosociology
Black power
Science
5. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Normal accidents
Hidden curriculum
Economic system
Nonmaterial culture
6. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Routine activities theory
Master status
Social role
False consciousness
7. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Economic system
Impression management
Nisei
Domestic partnership
8. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Sexism
Endogamy
Formal norms
Resocialization
9. A three-member group.
Intergenerational mobility
Triad
Culture shock
Control variable
10. General practices found in every culture.
Cultural universals
Assimilation
Impression management
Established sect
11. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Norms
Value neutrality
Discrimination
Intragenerational mobility
12. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Political socialization
Cult
Informal norms
Rites of passage
13. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Normal accidents
Surveillance function
Patrilineal descent
Genocide
14. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Sick role
Bureaucracy
Life expectancy
Subculture
15. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Creationism
Control group
Elite model
16. 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.
New urban sociology
Infant mortality rate
Functionalist perspective
Formal social control
17. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Nisei
Religious beliefs
Issei
Established sect
18. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Castes
Sociology
Sect
Absolute poverty
19. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Single-parent families
Reference group
Agrarian society
Degradation ceremony
20. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Machismo
Patrilineal descent
Polyandry
Esteem
21. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Ecclesia
Power
Horticultural societies
Ascribed status
22. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Manifest functions
Bilateral descent
Control variable
Urbanism
23. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Opinion leader
Interactionist perspective
Tracking
24. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Incest taboo
Deindustrialization
Political socialization
Sample
25. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Sociological imagination
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Dysfunction
Patriarchy
26. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Natural science
Patriarchy
Formal organization
Scientific management approach
27. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Cult
Hawthorne effect
Social constructionist perspective
Science
28. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Questionnaire
Credentialism
Social control
Bureaucratization
29. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Birthrate
Informal social control
Wealth
Second shift
30. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Counterculture
Nonverbal communication
Laissez-faire
Profane
31. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Social inequality
Horizontal mobility
Issei
Social science
32. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Deviance
Social institutions
Activity theory
Crime
33. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Downsizing
Classical theory
Ethnic group
New social movements
34. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Manifest functions
Sociology
Suburb
In-group
35. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Segregation
Trained incapacity
Vested interests
Teacher-expectancy effect
36. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Affirmative action
Iron law of oligarchy
Monopoly
Latent functions
37. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Deindustrialization
Obedience
Nonverbal communication
Cultural transmission
38. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Anticipatory socialization
Monogamy
Affirmative action
Narcotizing dysfunction
39. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Ideal type
Bourgeoisie
Polyandry
Routine activities theory
40. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Proletariat
Technology
Tracking
Assimilation
41. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Religion
Credentialism
Correlation
Control variable
42. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Mortality rate
Innovation
Tracking
Preindustrial city
43. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Amalgamation
Globalization
Alienation
Suburb
44. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Family
Cult
Human ecology
45. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Bureaucracy
Technology
Slavery
Role taking
46. 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.
Profane
World systems analysis
Argot
New urban sociology
47. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Single-parent families
Census
Role taking
Causal logic
48. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Expressiveness
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Matriarchy
Theory
49. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Intergenerational mobility
Tracking
Luddites
Ideal type
50. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Creationism
Vested interests
Sociology
Victimization surveys