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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Hunting-and-gathering society
False consciousness
Incest taboo
Sample
2. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Language
Peter principle
Single-parent families
Social inequality
3. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Cognitive theory of development
Economic system
Self
Closed system
4. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Activity theory
Telecommuters
Force
Glass ceiling
5. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Discrimination
Social change
In-group
Class
6. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Control theory
Voluntary associations
Functionalist perspective
Nuclear family
7. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Role conflict
Anomie
Social inequality
Human relations approach
8. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Incidence
Established sect
Expressiveness
Socialization
9. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Questionnaire
Human ecology
Ecclesia
Anticipatory socialization
10. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Theory
Monopoly
Prevalence
Closed system
11. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Black power
Intragenerational mobility
Class system
Curanderismo
12. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Survey
Institutional discrimination
Looking-glass self
Polygyny
13. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Agrarian society
Informal social control
Credentialism
Polygamy
14. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Anomie
Verstehen
Manifest functions
Segregation
15. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Birthrate
Discrimination
Influence
16. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Normal accidents
Concentric-zone theory
Contact hypothesis
Equilibrium model
17. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Homophobia
Social constructionist perspective
Disengagement theory
Sociobiology
18. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Experimental group
Sacred
Mass media
Polygyny
19. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Normal accidents
Variable
Genocide
Second shift
20. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Sociocultural evolution
Gender roles
Racism
Incidence
21. 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.
Kinship
Ethnography
Minority group
Traditional authority
22. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Black power
Random sample
Resource mobilization
Coalition
23. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Institutional discrimination
Informal economy
Ascribed status
Globalization
24. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Postindustrial society
Colonialism
Authority
Human ecology
25. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Ageism
Monogamy
Industrial city
Obedience
26. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Income
Deviance
Objective method
Religion
27. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conflict perspective
Conformity
Agrarian society
Institutional discrimination
28. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Iron law of oligarchy
Innovation
Evolutionary theory
Folkways
29. 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.
Mass media
Relative poverty
Informal economy
Life chances
30. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Social interaction
Cultural transmission
Informal norms
Triad
31. 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.
Gesellschaft
Defended neighborhood
Social constructionist perspective
Postindustrial society
32. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.
Hypothesis
Curanderismo
Neocolonialism
Institutional discrimination
33. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Sample
Ethnocentrism
Telecommuters
Social role
34. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Established sect
Social mobility
Significant others
Modernization theory
35. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.
Matriarchy
Stratification
Mass media
Prestige
36. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Independent variable
Mass media
Anomie theory of deviance
Discovery
37. 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.
Religious rituals
Demographic transition
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Established sect
38. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Sexism
Cultural transmission
Charismatic authority
Equilibrium model
39. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Dysfunction
Class system
Opinion leader
Natural science
40. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Equilibrium model
Class consciousness
Religious experience
Gemeinschaft
41. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Gatekeeping
Gesellschaft
Status
Social control
42. 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.
Downsizing
Esteem
Variable
Zero population growth (ZPG)
43. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Ethnic group
Random sample
White-collar crime
Creationism
44. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Trained incapacity
Formal social control
Preindustrial city
Model or ideal minority
45. 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
Instrumentality
Victimless crimes
Ageism
46. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Content analysis
Underclass
Sect
Laissez-faire
47. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Extended family
Observation
Elite model
Sample
48. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.
Master status
Value neutrality
Machismo
Creationism
49. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Monopoly
Sexual harassment
Quantitative research
Politics
50. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Human ecology
Monogamy
Symbols
Triad