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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 school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Megalopolis
Demographic transition
Cultural transmission
Amalgamation
2. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.
McDonaldization
Nisei
Secularization
Formal organization
3. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Scientific method
Megalopolis
Modernization theory
Social epidemiology
4. 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.
Microsociology
Sexual harassment
Class consciousness
Birthrate
5. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.
Neocolonialism
Death rate
Instrumentality
Interactionist perspective
6. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Social constructionist perspective
Gesellschaft
Preindustrial city
Qualitative research
7. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.
Informal norms
Culture
Socialization
Innovation
8. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Qualitative research
Luddites
Community
Dramaturgical approach
9. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Life chances
Informal norms
Variable
Demography
10. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.
Status group
Labeling theory
Kinship
Incest taboo
11. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Pluralism
Norms
Culture shock
Matrilineal descent
12. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.
Monogamy
Downsizing
Egalitarian family
Culture lag
13. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Prevalence
Culture
Elite model
Life expectancy
14. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.
Matrilineal descent
Role exit
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Self
15. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Force
Human relations approach
Influence
Negotiation
16. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Code of ethics
Monogamy
Obedience
Bureaucracy
17. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Stigma
Mores
Authority
Extended family
18. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Education
Dyad
Scientific method
Social mobility
19. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Infant mortality rate
Stratification
False consciousness
Prejudice
20. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
Intergenerational mobility
Ethnography
Social control
Random sample
21. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Survey
Resocialization
Culture lag
Income
22. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.
Cult
Monogamy
Total institutions
Survey
23. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Scientific method
Infant mortality rate
Bureaucratization
Narcotizing dysfunction
24. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Social structure
Legal-rational authority
Census
Values
25. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Relative poverty
Exploitation theory
Narcotizing dysfunction
Serial monogamy
26. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Achieved status
Formal social control
Genocide
Endogamy
27. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Death rate
Looking-glass self
Model or ideal minority
Alienation
28. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Cult
Science
Coalition
29. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Racial group
Bureaucracy
Group
30. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Education
Adoption
Hidden curriculum
Liberation theology
31. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Sexual harassment
Urbanism
Prevalence
Minority group
32. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Liberation theology
Patrilineal descent
Professional criminal
Goal displacement
33. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
Sanctions
Natural science
Qualitative research
Gemeinschaft
34. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.
Role conflict
Relative deprivation
Hawthorne effect
Family
35. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Exploitation theory
Scientific method
Mass media
Informal social control
36. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.
Legal-rational authority
Class
Urban ecology
Independent variable
37. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Institutional discrimination
Variable
Discovery
Domestic partnership
38. 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.
Organized crime
Group
Human ecology
McDonaldization
39. Salaries and wages.
Survey
Correlation
Income
Politics
40. 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.
Domestic partnership
Interview
Subculture
Looking-glass self
41. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Sacred
Ageism
Gender roles
Machismo
42. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Postindustrial society
Extended family
Nuclear family
43. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Degradation ceremony
Denomination
Modernization theory
Class
44. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Segregation
In-group
Issei
Census
45. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.
Incest taboo
Significant others
Innovation
New social movements
46. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.
Liberation theology
Symbols
Multiple-nuclei theory
Growth rate
47. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
Material culture
Downsizing
Xenocentrism
Mortality rate
48. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Issei
Survey
Ascribed status
Bourgeoisie
49. 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.
Social network
Impression management
Stratification
Human ecology
50. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Prejudice
Social structure
Role conflict
Instrumentality