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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. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Slavery
Formal organization
Negotiation
Class consciousness
2. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Theory
Impression management
Survey
Stratification
3. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Issei
Small group
Experimental group
Cohabitation
4. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Egalitarian family
Matrilineal descent
Neocolonialism
Code of ethics
5. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Cultural transmission
Ecclesia
Population pyramid
6. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Charismatic authority
Class consciousness
Community
7. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Looking-glass self
Symbols
Income
Sexism
8. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Matriarchy
Control variable
Classical theory
9. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
Power
Social structure
Suburb
10. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Status group
Dyad
Reference group
Bilateral descent
11. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Gender roles
Small group
Dependent variable
Industrial city
12. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Religious beliefs
Social change
Secondary group
Self
13. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Tracking
Intergenerational mobility
Teacher-expectancy effect
Population pyramid
14. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.
Creationism
Material culture
Sociology
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
15. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Profane
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Victimization surveys
Social epidemiology
16. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Anti-Semitism
Looking-glass self
Vital statistics
Social epidemiology
17. 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.
Opinion leader
Objective method
Social mobility
Control theory
18. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Power elite
Politics
Crime
Total fertility rate (TFR)
19. 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.
Religious experience
Second shift
Assimilation
Subculture
20. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Secondary group
Functionalist perspective
Code of ethics
Environmental justice
21. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Black power
Open system
Religious experience
Gesellschaft
22. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.
Machismo
Tracking
Society
Group
23. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Open system
Life expectancy
Primary group
Alienation
24. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.
Survey
White-collar crime
Instrumentality
Polyandry
25. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Victimless crimes
Mores
Minority group
Elite model
26. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.
Sociology
Politics
Significant others
Gemeinschaft
27. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Peter principle
Labor unions
Social epidemiology
Quantitative research
28. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.
Impression management
Control group
Politics
Intergenerational mobility
29. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Minority group
Prevalence
Legal-rational authority
Racism
30. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.
Quantitative research
Operational definition
Bureaucracy
Coalition
31. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Discovery
Interactionist perspective
Secondary analysis
Power
32. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Colonialism
Political socialization
False consciousness
Authority
33. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Traditional authority
Cultural transmission
Master status
Achieved status
34. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Resource mobilization
Power elite
Slavery
Disengagement theory
35. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Multinational corporations
Control group
Sect
Urbanism
36. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Prestige
Questionnaire
Industrial city
Hunting-and-gathering society
37. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Intergenerational mobility
Hypothesis
Narcotizing dysfunction
Qualitative research
38. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.
Labeling theory
Trained incapacity
Force
Conformity
39. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Nonmaterial culture
Capitalism
Demography
Growth rate
40. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Underclass
Routine activities theory
Assimilation
41. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.
Culture
Law
Class system
Vertical mobility
42. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.
Anti-Semitism
Correspondence principle
Prevalence
Triad
43. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Cult
Functionalist perspective
Gatekeeping
Closed system
44. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.
Iron law of oligarchy
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Social control
Sample
45. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.
Nuclear family
Gender roles
Rites of passage
Socialism
46. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Economic system
Dysfunction
Master status
Monopoly
47. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Castes
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Racism
Zero population growth (ZPG)
48. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.
Absolute poverty
Infant mortality rate
McDonaldization
E-commerce
49. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Xenocentrism
Objective method
Science
Peter principle
50. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Monogamy
Segregation
Stratification
False consciousness