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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 deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
Looking-glass self
Charismatic authority
Genocide
Second shift
2. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
Absolute poverty
Glass ceiling
Institutional discrimination
Gerontology
3. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.
Conformity
Nisei
Bureaucratization
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
4. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Monopoly
Class system
Social network
Deviance
5. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.
Social epidemiology
Concentric-zone theory
Ethnocentrism
Agrarian society
6. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Achieved status
Conflict perspective
Professional criminal
Elite model
7. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Social interaction
Neocolonialism
Ethnocentrism
Generalized others
8. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Anticipatory socialization
Demographic transition
Health
Degradation ceremony
9. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.
Culture lag
Cultural universals
Variable
Classical theory
10. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.
Victimization surveys
Crime
Sexual harassment
Postindustrial society
11. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.
Differential association
Diffusion
Ageism
Control variable
12. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Formal norms
Self
Hypothesis
Dysfunction
13. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.
Disengagement theory
Operational definition
Triad
Modernization
14. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Deindustrialization
Secularization
Exploitation theory
Microsociology
15. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
Significant others
Cultural relativism
Open system
Code of ethics
16. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Resource mobilization
Bilateral descent
Industrial society
Social control
17. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Hidden curriculum
Community
Urbanism
Diffusion
18. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.
Luddites
Sexism
Stereotypes
Secondary analysis
19. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Dependent variable
Neocolonialism
Symbols
Ethnography
20. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.
Industrial city
Telecommuters
Patriarchy
Assimilation
21. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Evolutionary theory
Face-work
Infant mortality rate
Established sect
22. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Modernization
Resource mobilization
Polygyny
Fertility
23. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Matrilineal descent
Curanderismo
Role conflict
Industrial society
24. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Trained incapacity
Nuclear family
Religious beliefs
Slavery
25. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Polygyny
Manifest functions
Concentric-zone theory
Birthrate
26. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Questionnaire
Discrimination
Authority
Kinship
27. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Natural science
Iron law of oligarchy
Conformity
Luddites
28. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.
Glass ceiling
Functionalist perspective
Informal economy
Affirmative action
29. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Postmodern society
Obedience
Downsizing
Multiple-nuclei theory
30. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.
Degradation ceremony
Mass media
Power
Life chances
31. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.
Crime
Ageism
Census
Apartheid
32. 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.
Sociobiology
Impression management
Control theory
Luddites
33. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Total institutions
Assimilation
Secondary group
Disengagement theory
34. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Macrosociology
Colonialism
Health
Resocialization
35. Governmental social control.
Law
Incest taboo
Sexual harassment
Institutional discrimination
36. 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.
Family
Socialism
Sociological imagination
Community
37. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.
Scientific management approach
Sociobiology
Labor unions
Manifest functions
38. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Bourgeoisie
Dominant ideology
Content analysis
Castes
39. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Force
Socialism
Intergenerational mobility
Class consciousness
40. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Education
Telecommuters
Discovery
Luddites
41. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.
Patriarchy
Prevalence
Protestant ethic
Cult
42. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Argot
Incest taboo
Folkways
Domestic partnership
43. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.
Incidence
Opinion leader
Matriarchy
Independent variable
44. Salaries and wages.
Deviance
Bourgeoisie
Organized crime
Income
45. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Racism
Political socialization
Incidence
Endogamy
46. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Religious experience
Disengagement theory
Equilibrium model
Nisei
47. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Subculture
Bourgeoisie
Interactionist perspective
Mores
48. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Socialization
Matrilineal descent
Protestant ethic
Megalopolis
49. 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.
McDonaldization
Labeling theory
Prejudice
Multinational corporations
50. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Social inequality
Nonmaterial culture
Polyandry
Pluralist model