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CLEP Sociology
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1. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Sacred
Bureaucratization
Political system
Homophobia
2. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Generalized others
Role exit
Sect
Conflict perspective
3. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.
Primary group
Political socialization
Deindustrialization
Preindustrial city
4. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Bureaucracy
Incest taboo
Laissez-faire
5. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Sociology
Industrial city
Single-parent families
Economic system
6. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Capitalism
Economic system
Deviance
Esteem
7. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Gesellschaft
Mores
Horticultural societies
Intergenerational mobility
8. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Cultural relativism
Exploitation theory
Experiment
Issei
9. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Content analysis
Innovation
Correspondence principle
Social institutions
10. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
Exogamy
Formal social control
Feminist perspective
Observation
11. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Machismo
Ideal type
Genocide
Census
12. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Sick role
World systems analysis
Voluntary associations
Growth rate
13. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Cultural relativism
Institutional discrimination
Gerontology
Patrilineal descent
14. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.
Victimization surveys
Counterculture
Absolute poverty
Scientific management approach
15. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Sociobiology
Curanderismo
Exploitation theory
Routine activities theory
16. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.
Stratification
Argot
Alienation
Kinship
17. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Resource mobilization
Curanderismo
Value neutrality
Informal norms
18. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Modernization theory
Diffusion
Verstehen
Apartheid
19. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Law
Relative poverty
Defended neighborhood
Life expectancy
20. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Anticipatory socialization
Telecommuters
Quantitative research
Opinion leader
21. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Secondary group
Gemeinschaft
Formal social control
Sacred
22. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Globalization
Class
Religious beliefs
Voluntary associations
23. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Formal social control
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Socialism
Operational definition
24. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Quantitative research
Political socialization
McDonaldization
Small group
25. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Reference group
Questionnaire
Scientific management approach
Interactionist perspective
26. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Dominant ideology
Multinational corporations
Research design
Role conflict
27. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Gatekeeping
Industrial society
Technology
Ascribed status
28. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
Formal organization
Peter principle
Second shift
E-commerce
29. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.
Polyandry
Racial group
Class consciousness
Expressiveness
30. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Objective method
Narcotizing dysfunction
Health
Secondary group
31. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Degradation ceremony
Deindustrialization
Human ecology
Extended family
32. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.
Significant others
Instrumentality
Obedience
Natural science
33. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Small group
Research design
Degradation ceremony
Informal social control
34. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.
Socialization
Postindustrial society
Single-parent families
Symbols
35. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Role exit
Homophobia
Profane
Quantitative research
36. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Equilibrium model
Social epidemiology
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Latent functions
37. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.
Bourgeoisie
Elite model
Control variable
Mass media
38. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.
Exogamy
Economic system
Multinational corporations
Denomination
39. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Patriarchy
Dependent variable
Legal-rational authority
Xenocentrism
40. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Discovery
Domestic partnership
Homophobia
Population pyramid
41. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Sociological imagination
Prestige
Telecommuters
Culture lag
42. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.
Microsociology
Mores
Domestic partnership
Differential association
43. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Informal social control
Multinational corporations
Negotiation
Gender roles
44. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.
Contact hypothesis
Capitalism
Differential association
Adoption
45. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Death rate
Family
Labeling theory
Cohabitation
46. 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.
Sacred
Polyandry
Sexual harassment
Folkways
47. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Affirmative action
Culture lag
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Theory
48. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.
Vital statistics
Research design
Norms
Sample
49. General practices found in every culture.
False consciousness
Anticipatory socialization
World systems analysis
Cultural universals
50. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Kinship
Technology
Socialism
Total fertility rate (TFR)