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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. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Extended family
Victimization surveys
Nonverbal communication
Status
2. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Societal-reaction approach
Racial group
Primary group
Tracking
3. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Horticultural societies
Looking-glass self
Formal norms
Narcotizing dysfunction
4. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Socialization
Glass ceiling
Secondary group
Affirmative action
5. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Looking-glass self
Power elite
Bourgeoisie
Nisei
6. The study of various aspects of human society.
Social science
Personality
Anti-Semitism
Downsizing
7. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Serial monogamy
Total institutions
Vertical mobility
Industrial city
8. 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.
Dependency theory
Xenocentrism
Concentric-zone theory
Significant others
9. 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.
Health
Economic system
Code of ethics
Bourgeoisie
10. 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.
Power elite
Matrilineal descent
Latent functions
Mass media
11. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Demographic transition
Model or ideal minority
Argot
Proletariat
12. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.
Gerontology
Nisei
Routine activities theory
Values
13. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.
Culture
Experimental group
Protestant ethic
Victimization surveys
14. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
Norms
Scientific method
Nonmaterial culture
Out-group
15. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Horticultural societies
Incidence
Sociobiology
Infant mortality rate
16. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.
Force
Self
False consciousness
Demographic transition
17. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Secularization
Denomination
Alienation
Infant mortality rate
18. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.
Societal-reaction approach
Fertility
Black power
Variable
19. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Pluralist model
Sacred
Elite model
Disengagement theory
20. 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
Social interaction
Status group
Peter principle
21. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.
Social institutions
Generalized others
Narcotizing dysfunction
Total fertility rate (TFR)
22. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Anomie theory of deviance
Differential association
Sick role
Amalgamation
23. 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.
Pluralism
Multiple-nuclei theory
Interactionist perspective
Secondary analysis
24. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Bilingualism
Exogamy
Questionnaire
25. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.
Innovation
Intergenerational mobility
Science
Proletariat
26. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Matriarchy
Census
Dominant ideology
Xenocentrism
27. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Invention
Model or ideal minority
Achieved status
28. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.
Hawthorne effect
Bilateral descent
Multinational corporations
Obedience
29. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Cohabitation
Credentialism
Traditional authority
Dramaturgical approach
30. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Generalized others
Microsociology
World systems analysis
Informal economy
31. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Power elite
Cult
Endogamy
Intragenerational mobility
32. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Racism
Monopoly
Intergenerational mobility
Formal organization
33. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Model or ideal minority
Stigma
Sociological imagination
Industrial society
34. 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.
Cohabitation
Objective method
Family
Religious beliefs
35. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.
Verstehen
Natural science
Preindustrial city
Socialism
36. The state of being related to others.
Formal organization
Peter principle
Kinship
Crime
37. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Secondary group
Rites of passage
Established sect
Colonialism
38. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Negotiation
Expressiveness
Issei
Social constructionist perspective
39. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Labeling theory
Content analysis
Modernization
Morbidity rates
40. 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.
Verstehen
Traditional authority
Bourgeoisie
Face-work
41. Salaries and wages.
Variable
Income
Pluralism
Generalized others
42. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Modernization theory
Socialization
Social inequality
Objective method
43. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Material culture
Demography
Counterculture
Census
44. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.
Scientific management approach
Concentric-zone theory
Culture shock
Resocialization
45. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.
Anticipatory socialization
Teacher-expectancy effect
Modernization
Nonverbal communication
46. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Life expectancy
Quantitative research
Sociocultural evolution
Glass ceiling
47. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Gemeinschaft
Control group
Urbanism
48. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Prejudice
Technology
Familism
Dramaturgical approach
49. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Role strain
Symbols
Capitalism
Teacher-expectancy effect
50. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Patriarchy
Total institutions
Polygyny
New religious movement (NRM) or cult