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CLEP Sociology
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1. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Science
Minority group
Norms
Slavery
2. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Norms
Class system
Personality
Sample
3. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Bilateral descent
Dependency theory
Gender roles
Ethnography
4. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Control theory
Authority
Prejudice
Liberation theology
5. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Correspondence principle
Mores
Population pyramid
Urbanism
6. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Small group
Looking-glass self
Population pyramid
Teacher-expectancy effect
7. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Luddites
Racism
Informal economy
Nonverbal communication
8. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Routine activities theory
Life expectancy
Downsizing
Industrial city
9. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Concentric-zone theory
Exploitation theory
Obedience
Code of ethics
10. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Social movements
Intergenerational mobility
Life chances
Vested interests
11. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Force
Questionnaire
Goal displacement
Group
12. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Dominant ideology
Science
Colonialism
Research design
13. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Secondary analysis
Polyandry
Argot
Symbols
14. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.
Deviance
Amalgamation
Birthrate
Dysfunction
15. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Sociological imagination
Impression management
Scientific management approach
Victimization surveys
16. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Intragenerational mobility
Activity theory
Religious experience
Manifest functions
17. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Patrilineal descent
Group
Education
Independent variable
18. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Out-group
Luddites
Machismo
Dyad
19. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.
Terrorism
Ideal type
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Stereotypes
20. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Qualitative research
Model or ideal minority
Assimilation
Population pyramid
21. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Denomination
Social movements
Secondary group
Protestant ethic
22. A two-member group.
Class consciousness
Dyad
Religious rituals
Expressiveness
23. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Language
Questionnaire
Social network
Values
24. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Megalopolis
Conflict perspective
Horizontal mobility
Defended neighborhood
25. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Sexual harassment
Open system
Triad
26. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Class
Sociology
Causal logic
Relative poverty
27. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.
Status group
Laissez-faire
Power
Ideal type
28. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Impression management
Informal norms
Ethnocentrism
Role exit
29. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Validity
Informal norms
Denomination
Negotiation
30. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Matrilineal descent
Self
Model or ideal minority
Equilibrium model
31. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Nonverbal communication
Family
Established sect
Secularization
32. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.
Family
Random sample
Activity theory
Bilingualism
33. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
Deviance
Class consciousness
Formal organization
Influence
34. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Nisei
Religious rituals
Organized crime
Prestige
35. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Population pyramid
Death rate
Religious rituals
Interactionist perspective
36. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Endogamy
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Urban ecology
Sociological imagination
37. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Wealth
Interview
Prejudice
Theory
38. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Nisei
Scientific method
Institutional discrimination
Concentric-zone theory
39. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Influence
Hidden curriculum
Scientific method
Socialism
40. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Postindustrial city
Black power
Social control
Labor unions
41. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Social institutions
Differential association
Stratification
Ecclesia
42. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Role strain
Anti-Semitism
Victimization surveys
Multilinear evolutionary theory
43. The scientific study of population.
False consciousness
Sexism
Victimless crimes
Demography
44. The state of being related to others.
Culture shock
Kinship
Extended family
Mores
45. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Downsizing
Alienation
Teacher-expectancy effect
Postindustrial society
46. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.
Religion
New urban sociology
Informal social control
Ideal type
47. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Mores
Random sample
Intragenerational mobility
Mass media
48. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Legal-rational authority
Latent functions
Human relations approach
Equilibrium model
49. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Gesellschaft
Mores
Birthrate
Dysfunction
50. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Discovery
Latent functions
Goal displacement
Cultural universals