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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Underclass
Familism
Relative deprivation
Vertical mobility
2. 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.
Esteem
Anomie
Sect
Single-parent families
3. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Informal norms
Community
Coalition
Teacher-expectancy effect
4. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
False consciousness
Postindustrial city
Victimization surveys
Esteem
5. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Causal logic
Deviance
Microsociology
Sexism
6. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Secularization
Birthrate
Role conflict
Machismo
7. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Activity theory
Human relations approach
Industrial city
8. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Mortality rate
Modernization theory
Urban ecology
Esteem
9. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Telecommuters
Colonialism
Peter principle
10. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Interactionist perspective
Life expectancy
Elite model
Science
11. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Population pyramid
Kinship
Terrorism
Underclass
12. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Economic system
Racism
Laissez-faire
13. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Closed system
Life expectancy
Anti-Semitism
Science
14. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Vested interests
Professional criminal
Hidden curriculum
Denomination
15. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Exogamy
Formal social control
Luddites
Opinion leader
16. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Cult
Life chances
Significant others
Bureaucratization
17. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Matriarchy
Stereotypes
Hidden curriculum
Functionalist perspective
18. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Ascribed status
New urban sociology
Surveillance function
Deindustrialization
19. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Power
Social inequality
Multiple-nuclei theory
Survey
20. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Monogamy
Classical theory
Glass ceiling
Income
21. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Goal displacement
Cultural relativism
Degradation ceremony
22. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Stigma
Teacher-expectancy effect
Questionnaire
Routine activities theory
23. The incidence of death in a given population.
Postindustrial city
Negotiated order
Power elite
Mortality rate
24. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Ascribed status
Modernization theory
Contact hypothesis
Total institutions
25. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Culture
Religion
Discovery
Latent functions
26. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Social structure
Conflict perspective
Genocide
Resocialization
27. 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.
Sociological imagination
Multiple-nuclei theory
Incidence
Operational definition
28. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Dysfunction
Creationism
Technology
Secondary group
29. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Discovery
Second shift
Suburb
Power elite
30. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
Income
Matrilineal descent
Urban ecology
Ethnic group
31. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Industrial city
Environmental justice
Cultural transmission
Ethnography
32. 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.
Mortality rate
Modernization
Health
Questionnaire
33. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Influence
Theory
Adoption
Population pyramid
34. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.
Contact hypothesis
Segregation
Legal-rational authority
Family
35. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Achieved status
Stereotypes
Suburb
Social inequality
36. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Established sect
Routine activities theory
Horizontal mobility
37. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Curanderismo
Peter principle
Institutional discrimination
Single-parent families
38. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Negotiation
Observation
Variable
Reference group
39. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Formal organization
Scientific management approach
Negotiated order
Suburb
40. A two-member group.
Luddites
Dyad
Growth rate
Concentric-zone theory
41. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Objective method
White-collar crime
Polygyny
Apartheid
42. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Polyandry
Machismo
Religious rituals
43. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Matrilineal descent
Economic system
Observation
44. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Proletariat
Laissez-faire
Community
Population pyramid
45. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Value neutrality
Interactionist perspective
Science
Labeling theory
46. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Role conflict
Force
Innovation
Established sect
47. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Degradation ceremony
Influence
Differential association
Incidence
48. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Modernization
Cohabitation
Credentialism
Scientific method
49. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Resocialization
Neocolonialism
Religious beliefs
Unilinear evolutionary theory
50. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Sacred
Sanctions
Out-group
Secularization