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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Organized crime
Ethnic group
Megalopolis
Symbols
2. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.
Census
In-group
Kinship
Control group
3. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Hunting-and-gathering society
Victimization surveys
Questionnaire
Out-group
4. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Labeling theory
Goal displacement
Extended family
Experiment
5. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Legal-rational authority
Denomination
Face-work
Social control
6. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Social inequality
Organized crime
Intergenerational mobility
Expressiveness
7. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Operational definition
Interview
Argot
8. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Human relations approach
Conformity
Agrarian society
Model or ideal minority
9. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.
Infant mortality rate
Vested interests
Urban ecology
Family
10. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Exogamy
E-commerce
Prevalence
11. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Variable
Personality
Social institutions
Serial monogamy
12. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.
Alienation
Endogamy
Vested interests
Hunting-and-gathering society
13. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.
Looking-glass self
Sociology
Slavery
Nonmaterial culture
14. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Latent functions
Polygyny
Fertility
Generalized others
15. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Macrosociology
Culture shock
Influence
Exogamy
16. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Growth rate
Reference group
Bureaucratization
Instrumentality
17. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Dysfunction
Subculture
Gatekeeping
Esteem
18. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Labeling theory
Downsizing
Egalitarian family
Informal economy
19. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Genocide
Human ecology
Protestant ethic
In-group
20. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Functionalist perspective
Class
Underclass
Impression management
21. 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.
Instrumentality
Postindustrial city
Objective method
Qualitative research
22. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Societal-reaction approach
Urban ecology
Absolute poverty
Bureaucratization
23. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Bureaucracy
Gemeinschaft
Objective method
Argot
24. 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
Globalization
Defended neighborhood
Hypothesis
25. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Familism
Degradation ceremony
Telecommuters
Group
26. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Group
Xenocentrism
Anticipatory socialization
Community
27. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Opinion leader
Social institutions
Intragenerational mobility
Role exit
28. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Megalopolis
World systems analysis
Discrimination
Proletariat
29. General practices found in every culture.
Urban ecology
Cultural universals
Pluralist model
Absolute poverty
30. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Counterculture
Institutional discrimination
Social constructionist perspective
Scientific management approach
31. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Role conflict
Mores
Reliability
Protestant ethic
32. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Sect
Denomination
Morbidity rates
Content analysis
33. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.
Social constructionist perspective
Capitalism
Latent functions
Prejudice
34. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Generalized others
Dominant ideology
White-collar crime
Vital statistics
35. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Bureaucratization
Religious beliefs
Monopoly
Primary group
36. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Sacred
Contact hypothesis
Social institutions
Total fertility rate (TFR)
37. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Operational definition
Cult
Income
Self
38. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Formal organization
Activity theory
Extended family
Proletariat
39. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Ideal type
McDonaldization
Social institutions
Industrial city
40. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
Profane
Cult
Resocialization
Ecclesia
41. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Closed system
Role taking
Experiment
Cult
42. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Discovery
Goal displacement
Machismo
Rites of passage
43. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Incidence
Religious beliefs
Relative poverty
Denomination
44. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Looking-glass self
Total institutions
Slavery
Nonverbal communication
45. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Society
Social movements
Self
Expressiveness
46. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Postindustrial society
Patriarchy
Concentric-zone theory
Income
47. The incidence of death in a given population.
Research design
Elite model
Mortality rate
Conflict perspective
48. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Endogamy
Dependency theory
Gender roles
49. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Verstehen
Population pyramid
Socialization
Interactionist perspective
50. 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.
Fertility
Routine activities theory
Matriarchy
Sexual harassment