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CLEP Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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.
Control theory
Nuclear family
Minority group
Equilibrium model
2. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
Esteem
Human ecology
Class consciousness
Vertical mobility
3. 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.
Gender roles
Vested interests
Total institutions
Personality
4. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.
Colonialism
Stigma
Education
Voluntary associations
5. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Bilingualism
Homophobia
Observation
Status group
6. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Natural science
Social mobility
Cultural relativism
Relative poverty
7. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Religious experience
Infant mortality rate
Sociobiology
8. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
Mortality rate
Globalization
Downsizing
Unilinear evolutionary theory
9. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
Sociocultural evolution
Ascribed status
Total institutions
Multinational corporations
10. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.
Horticultural societies
Segregation
Prejudice
Informal social control
11. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Patrilineal descent
Iron law of oligarchy
Power
Absolute poverty
12. Another name for labeling theory.
Questionnaire
Societal-reaction approach
Natural science
Prestige
13. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.
Machismo
Cult
Verstehen
Gemeinschaft
14. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.
Mortality rate
Underclass
Hawthorne effect
Interactionist perspective
15. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Total institutions
Adoption
Sociological imagination
Symbols
16. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Quantitative research
Legal-rational authority
Polyandry
Mores
17. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Sample
Curanderismo
Castes
18. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Social network
Extended family
Census
Power
19. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.
Sick role
Resocialization
Culture shock
Content analysis
20. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Political socialization
Polygamy
Tracking
Mores
21. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Machismo
Bureaucratization
Protestant ethic
Expressiveness
22. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Ethnocentrism
Defended neighborhood
Discrimination
Industrial city
23. A two-member group.
Discrimination
Politics
Dyad
In-group
24. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.
Luddites
Goal displacement
Sect
Value neutrality
25. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Dramaturgical approach
Industrial city
Looking-glass self
Gender roles
26. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.
Open system
Economic system
Diffusion
Agrarian society
27. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.
Established sect
Ageism
Correlation
Growth rate
28. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Informal social control
Sanctions
Class
Hypothesis
29. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.
Code of ethics
Ageism
Research design
Personality
30. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Differential association
Social mobility
Demography
Law
31. 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.
Stratification
Deindustrialization
Religious rituals
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
32. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.
Glass ceiling
Disengagement theory
Bourgeoisie
Microsociology
33. 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.
Ideal type
Adoption
Morbidity rates
Reliability
34. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.
Ascribed status
Sexism
Hawthorne effect
Legal-rational authority
35. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Hidden curriculum
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Human ecology
Sick role
36. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.
Postindustrial city
Organized crime
Wealth
Obedience
37. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Liberation theology
Gatekeeping
Normal accidents
Cultural relativism
38. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
Minority group
Open system
Opinion leader
Stratification
39. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Role conflict
Postindustrial society
Opinion leader
Nonmaterial culture
40. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Dysfunction
Political socialization
Anomie
Social inequality
41. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Social role
Science
Evolutionary theory
Esteem
42. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.
Anticipatory socialization
Prestige
Issei
Segregation
43. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.
Legal-rational authority
Innovation
Serial monogamy
Ageism
44. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.
Folkways
Economic system
Stereotypes
Discovery
45. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Adoption
Liberation theology
Rites of passage
E-commerce
46. 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
Out-group
Socialism
Formal organization
47. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Interactionist perspective
Horticultural societies
Secondary analysis
Exploitation theory
48. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Role taking
Discrimination
Luddites
Family
49. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.
Bourgeoisie
Second shift
Hawthorne effect
Egalitarian family
50. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Vertical mobility
Mores
Counterculture
Stigma