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CLEP Sociology
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1. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Cultural transmission
Formal norms
Routine activities theory
Contact hypothesis
2. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Scientific management approach
Curanderismo
Glass ceiling
Defended neighborhood
3. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Protestant ethic
Nonverbal communication
Model or ideal minority
Social epidemiology
4. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Diffusion
Dependent variable
Self
Degradation ceremony
5. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Observation
Hypothesis
Correspondence principle
6. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Social inequality
Voluntary associations
Creationism
7. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Capitalism
Conflict perspective
Gerontology
Secondary analysis
8. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Influence
Prestige
Anomie
9. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
False consciousness
New social movements
Social network
Interactionist perspective
10. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Ideal type
Dependency theory
Sociocultural evolution
Self
11. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Conformity
Variable
Opinion leader
Industrial society
12. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.
Instrumentality
Human relations approach
Exploitation theory
Credentialism
13. 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.
Formal organization
Theory
Code of ethics
McDonaldization
14. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Survey
Population pyramid
Social institutions
New social movements
15. 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
Reliability
Political socialization
Xenocentrism
16. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.
Operational definition
Incidence
Goal displacement
Voluntary associations
17. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Formal social control
Power
Alienation
Group
18. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Argot
Conflict perspective
Polyandry
Slavery
19. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Diffusion
Victimless crimes
Argot
Social epidemiology
20. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Theory
Discrimination
Exogamy
Laissez-faire
21. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Validity
Dyad
Total institutions
Population pyramid
22. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Microsociology
Vertical mobility
Ethnography
Diffusion
23. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Environmental justice
Gesellschaft
Hawthorne effect
Traditional authority
24. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Self
Feminist perspective
Legal-rational authority
Value neutrality
25. The scientific study of population.
Subculture
Theory
Demography
Elite model
26. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Secularization
Society
Human ecology
27. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Face-work
Ageism
Education
Industrial city
28. 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.
Bureaucratization
Normal accidents
Minority group
Ethnic group
29. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Esteem
Pluralist model
Science
Role strain
30. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Social control
Intragenerational mobility
Political socialization
Class
31. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Apartheid
Values
Affirmative action
Role taking
32. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Negotiated order
Bilateral descent
Health
Observation
33. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Institutional discrimination
Stereotypes
Postindustrial society
Assimilation
34. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Minority group
Anti-Semitism
Stratification
35. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Natural science
Luddites
False consciousness
World systems analysis
36. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Cognitive theory of development
Survey
Labor unions
37. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Stigma
Extended family
Cultural relativism
Correlation
38. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Validity
Classical theory
Voluntary associations
Random sample
39. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Kinship
Questionnaire
Total institutions
Religious experience
40. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Castes
Reference group
Agrarian society
Pluralist model
41. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Intergenerational mobility
Slavery
Matrilineal descent
Group
42. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Homophobia
Role taking
Incest taboo
Nisei
43. 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.
Bilateral descent
Capitalism
Gesellschaft
Microsociology
44. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Achieved status
Pluralist model
E-commerce
Qualitative research
45. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Contact hypothesis
Proletariat
Experiment
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
46. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
Socialization
Gerontology
Exogamy
Interactionist perspective
47. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Resource mobilization
Multiple-nuclei theory
Secondary group
48. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Postindustrial city
Social role
Microsociology
E-commerce
49. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Relative deprivation
Adoption
Research design
Role taking
50. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Growth rate
Classical theory
Sample
Activity theory