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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. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Language
Sick role
Correlation
Normal accidents
2. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Sanctions
Esteem
Coalition
3. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Patrilineal descent
Prevalence
Globalization
Cultural transmission
4. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Community
Socialism
Gatekeeping
Manifest functions
5. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Affirmative action
Surveillance function
Political socialization
Matrilineal descent
6. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Capitalism
Social movements
Underclass
Agrarian society
7. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Prejudice
Achieved status
Macrosociology
Life expectancy
8. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Quantitative research
Anticipatory socialization
Scientific management approach
Monopoly
9. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Globalization
Hawthorne effect
Research design
Social structure
10. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Coalition
Ethnocentrism
Observation
Prevalence
11. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Language
Opinion leader
Religious rituals
Cohabitation
12. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Mortality rate
Law
Invention
13. The study of various aspects of human society.
Social science
Verstehen
Ethnography
Affirmative action
14. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Dyad
Normal accidents
Affirmative action
Model or ideal minority
15. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.
Total institutions
Power elite
Culture shock
Social role
16. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Differential association
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Social structure
Role exit
17. 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.
Ethnocentrism
Experimental group
Objective method
Population pyramid
18. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Sociology
Class consciousness
Education
Generalized others
19. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Subculture
Neocolonialism
Scientific management approach
Tracking
20. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Role exit
Infant mortality rate
Normal accidents
Wealth
21. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Social network
Class consciousness
Peter principle
22. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Labor unions
Ageism
Rites of passage
Control theory
23. 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.
Contact hypothesis
Verstehen
Concentric-zone theory
Qualitative research
24. 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.
Variable
Minority group
Economic system
Community
25. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Natural science
Manifest functions
Single-parent families
Underclass
26. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Reference group
Disengagement theory
Matriarchy
Socialization
27. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Social movements
Argot
Bureaucratization
Diffusion
28. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Functionalist perspective
Victimization surveys
Symbols
Modernization
29. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Second shift
Social structure
Curanderismo
Kinship
30. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Monogamy
Neocolonialism
Gerontology
Survey
31. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Causal logic
Conflict perspective
Negotiated order
Hawthorne effect
32. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Cohabitation
Prevalence
Victimization surveys
Genocide
33. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Sanctions
Sexual harassment
Social structure
Affirmative action
34. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Issei
Social constructionist perspective
Innovation
35. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Primary group
Theory
Social movements
Economic system
36. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Stratification
Norms
Deindustrialization
Obedience
37. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Religious rituals
Nuclear family
Prevalence
Nonverbal communication
38. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Sociobiology
Feminist perspective
Dysfunction
Activity theory
39. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Nonmaterial culture
Underclass
Polyandry
Genocide
40. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Impression management
Social epidemiology
Nonverbal communication
Hunting-and-gathering society
41. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Religious experience
Kinship
Pluralism
Experiment
42. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Cult
Machismo
Glass ceiling
Environmental justice
43. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Goal displacement
Stereotypes
Evolutionary theory
Life chances
44. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Independent variable
Cultural relativism
Mores
Death rate
45. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.
Social structure
Postmodern society
Control group
Independent variable
46. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
Obedience
Negotiated order
Health
Social inequality
47. Another name for labeling theory.
Horizontal mobility
Informal social control
Societal-reaction approach
Role strain
48. A three-member group.
Census
Hawthorne effect
Triad
Prevalence
49. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Out-group
Culture lag
Multiple-nuclei theory
Counterculture
50. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Ecclesia
Resocialization
Feminist perspective
Birthrate