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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. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Esteem
Self
Gerontology
Hypothesis
2. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Natural science
Validity
Patrilineal descent
Glass ceiling
3. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Health
Latent functions
Esteem
Activity theory
4. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Disengagement theory
Machismo
Polyandry
Multinational corporations
5. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Sacred
Socialization
Organized crime
Polygyny
6. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Societal-reaction approach
Self
Obedience
Contact hypothesis
7. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Amalgamation
Polygyny
Assimilation
8. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Informal social control
Experiment
Health
Social control
9. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Role exit
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Victimization surveys
Social constructionist perspective
10. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Disengagement theory
Minority group
Anomie
11. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Birthrate
Value neutrality
Achieved status
Monopoly
12. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Resocialization
Status
Vested interests
Expressiveness
13. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Stratification
Teacher-expectancy effect
Death rate
Language
14. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Activity theory
Anomie
Curanderismo
Culture
15. 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.
Capitalism
Folkways
Minority group
Degradation ceremony
16. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.
Trained incapacity
Nisei
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Concentric-zone theory
17. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Secondary group
Objective method
Informal economy
Technology
18. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Resocialization
Wealth
Polygamy
Power
19. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Formal organization
Anticipatory socialization
Victimization surveys
Socialism
20. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Questionnaire
Mores
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Life chances
21. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Extended family
Quantitative research
Curanderismo
Society
22. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Values
Single-parent families
Social interaction
Dependency theory
23. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Demographic transition
Assimilation
Master status
Vital statistics
24. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Monopoly
Cultural universals
Denomination
Subculture
25. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Relative poverty
Liberation theology
Quantitative research
Intergenerational mobility
26. 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.
Urban ecology
McDonaldization
New urban sociology
Control variable
27. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Dysfunction
Experimental group
New urban sociology
Closed system
28. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Independent variable
Conformity
Deviance
Charismatic authority
29. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Labeling theory
Bourgeoisie
Opinion leader
Megalopolis
30. The study of various aspects of human society.
Class consciousness
Power elite
Social science
Alienation
31. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.
Profane
Assimilation
Social science
Face-work
32. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Class system
Independent variable
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Concentric-zone theory
33. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Community
Morbidity rates
Science
Total institutions
34. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Value neutrality
Religious beliefs
Questionnaire
In-group
35. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Ecclesia
Content analysis
Resocialization
Bilateral descent
36. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Relative poverty
Postmodern society
Invention
Degradation ceremony
37. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Prejudice
Validity
Education
False consciousness
38. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Colonialism
Genocide
Megalopolis
Control theory
39. 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.
Social interaction
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Secondary group
40. 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
Social mobility
Secondary analysis
Bourgeoisie
41. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Looking-glass self
Postindustrial society
Control theory
Societal-reaction approach
42. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Peter principle
Second shift
Vested interests
Income
43. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Coalition
Equilibrium model
Informal norms
Social epidemiology
44. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Hawthorne effect
Authority
Established sect
Legal-rational authority
45. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Ascribed status
Bilingualism
Cultural transmission
46. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Latent functions
Intergenerational mobility
Primary group
Socialism
47. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Scientific method
Social institutions
Validity
Ethnocentrism
48. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.
Liberation theology
Out-group
Anti-Semitism
Modernization theory
49. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Patrilineal descent
Bureaucracy
Law
Impression management
50. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Cognitive theory of development
Theory
Latent functions
Hunting-and-gathering society