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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Small group
Denomination
Anti-Semitism
Pluralist model
2. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Formal norms
Polygamy
Sociological imagination
Protestant ethic
3. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
Bilingualism
Socialism
Ethnocentrism
Total institutions
4. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Activity theory
Deviance
Feminist perspective
Evolutionary theory
5. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Status group
Capitalism
Polygamy
Cultural relativism
6. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.
Vital statistics
Cult
Cultural relativism
Social role
7. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
Profane
Gender roles
Crime
McDonaldization
8. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.
Incidence
Social inequality
Prevalence
Stigma
9. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Degradation ceremony
Intragenerational mobility
Protestant ethic
10. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
Personality
Ethnocentrism
Social structure
Elite model
11. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Equilibrium model
Experiment
Generalized others
Social network
12. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Human relations approach
Negotiated order
Preindustrial city
Culture
13. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Amalgamation
Social control
Curanderismo
Anomie theory of deviance
14. 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.
Invention
Political system
Correspondence principle
Power elite
15. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.
Sexual harassment
Differential association
Control theory
Routine activities theory
16. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Racial group
Monopoly
Power elite
Elite model
17. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Endogamy
Law
Intragenerational mobility
Legal-rational authority
18. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Professional criminal
Pluralist model
Culture lag
Underclass
19. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Mass media
Religious beliefs
Science
Black power
20. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Capitalism
Bureaucracy
Model or ideal minority
Hunting-and-gathering society
21. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Deindustrialization
Dependency theory
Credentialism
Sociological imagination
22. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Polyandry
Power
Classical theory
Social network
23. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Observation
Differential association
Kinship
24. 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.
Argot
Census
Total institutions
Health
25. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Social interaction
Secondary group
Sexism
Mores
26. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Control group
Scientific method
Birthrate
Polygamy
27. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Dependency theory
Ethnography
Demography
Labor unions
28. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Sociocultural evolution
Disengagement theory
Status group
Apartheid
29. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Research design
Resocialization
Prejudice
Egalitarian family
30. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Genocide
Language
Suburb
Affirmative action
31. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Politics
Racism
Causal logic
Ascribed status
32. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Polygamy
Gemeinschaft
Variable
Single-parent families
33. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Conflict perspective
Resource mobilization
Traditional authority
Independent variable
34. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Postindustrial city
Total institutions
Racial group
Modernization
35. General practices found in every culture.
Assimilation
Horticultural societies
Infant mortality rate
Cultural universals
36. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Power elite
Status
Growth rate
Intragenerational mobility
37. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Social structure
Reliability
Assimilation
Social institutions
38. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Patrilineal descent
Resource mobilization
Natural science
Observation
39. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Sect
Force
Stigma
Industrial society
40. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Modernization theory
Serial monogamy
World systems analysis
Normal accidents
41. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Survey
Sample
Polygyny
Infant mortality rate
42. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.
Monogamy
Ethnic group
Routine activities theory
Diffusion
43. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Economic system
Natural science
Mores
Scientific management approach
44. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Gender roles
Closed system
Segregation
Political socialization
45. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.
Sexual harassment
Argot
Preindustrial city
Racism
46. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Defended neighborhood
Segregation
Vital statistics
Prevalence
47. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Pluralist model
Feminist perspective
Verstehen
Zero population growth (ZPG)
48. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Profane
Objective method
Experiment
Fertility
49. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Independent variable
Horticultural societies
Vertical mobility
Gerontology
50. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Egalitarian family
Gesellschaft
Dramaturgical approach