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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 face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Contact hypothesis
Norms
Interview
Political system
2. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Bilateral descent
Open system
Postindustrial city
Sexual harassment
3. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Social network
Pluralist model
Culture shock
Master status
4. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Established sect
Institutional discrimination
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Multilinear evolutionary theory
5. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Intragenerational mobility
Observation
Cognitive theory of development
Life expectancy
6. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Small group
Questionnaire
Victimization surveys
Intergenerational mobility
7. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
E-commerce
Terrorism
Classical theory
8. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.
Gender roles
Affirmative action
Role conflict
Sect
9. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
Mores
Labor unions
Code of ethics
Model or ideal minority
10. 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.
Social change
In-group
Experimental group
Health
11. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.
Crime
Achieved status
Secondary analysis
Sample
12. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Gender roles
Morbidity rates
Classical theory
Suburb
13. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Stratification
Established sect
Second shift
Informal economy
14. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Nuclear family
Role strain
Social mobility
Ascribed status
15. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.
Cultural transmission
Subculture
Survey
Urbanism
16. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.
Social control
Sample
Wealth
Concentric-zone theory
17. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Adoption
Social institutions
Reliability
Iron law of oligarchy
18. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.
Normal accidents
Anticipatory socialization
Reliability
Political system
19. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.
Endogamy
Deindustrialization
Ascribed status
Correspondence principle
20. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.
New social movements
Correspondence principle
Exogamy
Rites of passage
21. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.
Sexism
Social mobility
Genocide
New urban sociology
22. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.
Technology
Social science
Symbols
Dominant ideology
23. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Discovery
Operational definition
Prevalence
Theory
24. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.
Control group
Hidden curriculum
Victimless crimes
Social interaction
25. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Secularization
Role taking
New social movements
Industrial city
26. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Ecclesia
Exploitation theory
White-collar crime
Human relations approach
27. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Conflict perspective
Homophobia
Routine activities theory
Goal displacement
28. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Questionnaire
Sexual harassment
Industrial society
Cultural transmission
29. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.
Influence
Teacher-expectancy effect
Segregation
Macrosociology
30. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.
Cultural universals
Socialism
Invention
Formal social control
31. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.
Teacher-expectancy effect
Fertility
Telecommuters
Environmental justice
32. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Patrilineal descent
Megalopolis
Ageism
Defended neighborhood
33. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Organized crime
Subculture
Content analysis
Microsociology
34. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Quantitative research
Infant mortality rate
Endogamy
35. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
Evolutionary theory
Objective method
Bureaucratization
Questionnaire
36. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Macrosociology
Vital statistics
Bureaucratization
Bilingualism
37. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.
Conformity
Culture shock
Society
Impression management
38. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.
Routine activities theory
Deindustrialization
Theory
Dramaturgical approach
39. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Open system
Code of ethics
Triad
Cohabitation
40. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Secularization
Neocolonialism
Vested interests
Religious beliefs
41. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Preindustrial city
Endogamy
Ideal type
Slavery
42. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Model or ideal minority
Rites of passage
Theory
Environmental justice
43. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Growth rate
Politics
Political socialization
Neocolonialism
44. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Sociocultural evolution
Industrial society
Downsizing
Gesellschaft
45. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.
Influence
Peter principle
Hidden curriculum
Symbols
46. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.
Role taking
Rites of passage
White-collar crime
Horticultural societies
47. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Culture lag
Horizontal mobility
Black power
Gender roles
48. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Alienation
Demography
Group
Traditional authority
49. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Socialization
Infant mortality rate
Bureaucratization
Macrosociology
50. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.
Urbanism
Manifest functions
Life chances
Classical theory