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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Expressiveness
Research design
Social interaction
Social network
2. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Politics
Proletariat
Human ecology
Random sample
3. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Downsizing
Hunting-and-gathering society
Patrilineal descent
Extended family
4. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Human ecology
Goal displacement
Cultural transmission
Mass media
5. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Endogamy
Master status
Anti-Semitism
Correlation
6. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Monopoly
Exogamy
Experiment
Material culture
7. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Religious rituals
Education
Science
Bilateral descent
8. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Credentialism
Routine activities theory
Interview
Coalition
9. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Segregation
Laissez-faire
Ecclesia
Multinational corporations
10. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.
Issei
Society
Bureaucratization
Denomination
11. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Postindustrial society
Egalitarian family
Minority group
12. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Slavery
Death rate
Power elite
13. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Bilateral descent
Questionnaire
Polygyny
14. Salaries and wages.
Income
Reliability
Familism
Unilinear evolutionary theory
15. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Horticultural societies
Invention
Secondary group
Sample
16. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Ascribed status
Negotiated order
Underclass
Single-parent families
17. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Creationism
Coalition
Scientific method
Telecommuters
18. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Tracking
Sociological imagination
Anticipatory socialization
Face-work
19. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Cohabitation
Racism
Social change
Out-group
20. 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
Vital statistics
Cultural universals
Questionnaire
21. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Matrilineal descent
Disengagement theory
Voluntary associations
Machismo
22. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Life chances
Professional criminal
Stratification
Pluralist model
23. 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.
Religious beliefs
Social mobility
Sect
Experiment
24. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Socialization
Activity theory
Underclass
New urban sociology
25. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Established sect
Victimless crimes
Role exit
Small group
26. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Self
Exploitation theory
Authority
Experimental group
27. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Incest taboo
Familism
Counterculture
Protestant ethic
28. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Social network
Polyandry
Pluralism
Values
29. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Endogamy
Monopoly
Reference group
Generalized others
30. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.
Generalized others
Horizontal mobility
Reference group
Endogamy
31. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Established sect
Science
Population pyramid
Ageism
32. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Established sect
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Bureaucracy
Labor unions
33. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Vertical mobility
Social change
White-collar crime
Norms
34. 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.
Creationism
Independent variable
Capitalism
False consciousness
35. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Nonverbal communication
Disengagement theory
Correlation
Power elite
36. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Small group
Questionnaire
Familism
Bourgeoisie
37. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Absolute poverty
Cognitive theory of development
Life chances
Secondary group
38. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Routine activities theory
Resource mobilization
Stereotypes
Growth rate
39. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Social role
Social structure
Social movements
Growth rate
40. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Interactionist perspective
Contact hypothesis
Variable
Reference group
41. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Experiment
Content analysis
Material culture
Machismo
42. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Bureaucratization
Social interaction
Achieved status
Cognitive theory of development
43. A two-member group.
Dyad
Routine activities theory
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Racism
44. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Argot
Gerontology
In-group
Resource mobilization
45. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Reference group
Code of ethics
Intragenerational mobility
Stratification
46. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Polygamy
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Prejudice
Concentric-zone theory
47. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Black power
Ageism
Mores
Alienation
48. 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
Multiple-nuclei theory
Monogamy
Labor unions
49. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Ageism
Control theory
Segregation
Narcotizing dysfunction
50. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Sexism
Anomie
Anomie theory of deviance
Peter principle