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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
Religion
Model or ideal minority
Social movements
Neocolonialism
2. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Disengagement theory
Social structure
Status
Postmodern society
3. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Interactionist perspective
Culture shock
Demography
Subculture
4. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Religious rituals
Ageism
Ethnography
Feminist perspective
5. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Exogamy
Social structure
Intragenerational mobility
Functionalist perspective
6. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.
Stigma
Modernization theory
Credentialism
Quantitative research
7. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Prevalence
Societal-reaction approach
Anticipatory socialization
Research design
8. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Apartheid
Feminist perspective
Bureaucracy
Adoption
9. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Reference group
Voluntary associations
Polygyny
10. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Model or ideal minority
Political system
Achieved status
Sociological imagination
11. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
False consciousness
Class system
Second shift
Monopoly
12. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Open system
Counterculture
Culture lag
13. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Closed system
Innovation
Personality
Glass ceiling
14. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.
Personality
Religious rituals
Anomie theory of deviance
Nonmaterial culture
15. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Cultural relativism
Self
Influence
Elite model
16. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Routine activities theory
Mores
Power
Social network
17. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Content analysis
Birthrate
Invention
Social constructionist perspective
18. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Norms
Gemeinschaft
Income
Formal social control
19. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Growth rate
Labor unions
Matrilineal descent
Diffusion
20. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Natural science
Classical theory
Class
Infant mortality rate
21. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Values
Routine activities theory
Bilingualism
Bilateral descent
22. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Minority group
Invention
Closed system
Population pyramid
23. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Religious experience
Natural science
Validity
Sacred
24. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Content analysis
Latent functions
Expressiveness
Role taking
25. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.
Bourgeoisie
Formal norms
Political system
Racial group
26. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Assimilation
Issei
Esteem
Postmodern society
27. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.
Hidden curriculum
Society
Intragenerational mobility
Power elite
28. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Dramaturgical approach
Prestige
Causal logic
29. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Social movements
Apartheid
Socialization
Social science
30. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Quantitative research
Human ecology
Folkways
31. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Scientific method
Hunting-and-gathering society
Secondary analysis
Primary group
32. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Monogamy
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Survey
New urban sociology
33. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Domestic partnership
Gemeinschaft
Hawthorne effect
Exogamy
34. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Sexism
Genocide
Symbols
Profane
35. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Stereotypes
Prestige
Sick role
Correspondence principle
36. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Degradation ceremony
Pluralism
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Symbols
37. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Prestige
Horizontal mobility
Formal organization
Relative deprivation
38. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Resource mobilization
Scientific management approach
Prestige
Gesellschaft
39. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Pluralist model
Second shift
Macrosociology
Stratification
40. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Achieved status
Formal norms
Resource mobilization
Content analysis
41. Governmental social control.
Religious beliefs
Law
Cultural universals
Influence
42. 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.
Questionnaire
Growth rate
Total institutions
Postindustrial society
43. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Multinational corporations
Hidden curriculum
Intergenerational mobility
Ethnography
44. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Bureaucracy
Influence
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Social change
45. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Proletariat
Operational definition
Activity theory
Liberation theology
46. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Terrorism
Nuclear family
Defended neighborhood
Anticipatory socialization
47. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Life expectancy
Adoption
Society
Ideal type
48. 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.
Nisei
Sect
Self
Modernization theory
49. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Interview
Invention
Social change
Genocide
50. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Influence
Bilingualism
Code of ethics
Sect