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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. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.
Dramaturgical approach
Wealth
Innovation
Castes
2. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Pluralist model
Anomie
Incest taboo
Gatekeeping
3. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.
Social institutions
Stereotypes
Latent functions
Hidden curriculum
4. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Random sample
False consciousness
Expressiveness
Sociological imagination
5. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Industrial society
Industrial city
Political socialization
Stigma
6. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.
World systems analysis
Dominant ideology
Mass media
Cognitive theory of development
7. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.
In-group
Sociocultural evolution
Esteem
Formal organization
8. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.
Informal economy
Castes
Values
Social role
9. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.
Bourgeoisie
Socialism
Family
Proletariat
10. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.
Religious beliefs
Authority
Small group
Life chances
11. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Influence
Questionnaire
Group
Alienation
12. Open - stated - and conscious functions.
Manifest functions
Nonverbal communication
Matrilineal descent
Interview
13. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Established sect
Master status
Ageism
Open system
14. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Underclass
Anticipatory socialization
Gemeinschaft
Religious beliefs
15. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.
Dependency theory
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Bilingualism
Absolute poverty
16. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Dependency theory
Slavery
Bilingualism
Glass ceiling
17. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Microsociology
Generalized others
Cultural universals
Vertical mobility
18. 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.
Polygamy
Verstehen
Xenocentrism
Population pyramid
19. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Established sect
Group
Urbanism
Bureaucratization
20. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.
Suburb
Segregation
Surveillance function
Cognitive theory of development
21. 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.
Relative poverty
Class consciousness
Open system
Activity theory
22. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.
Theory
Ethnocentrism
Anti-Semitism
Social change
23. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Census
Ageism
Iron law of oligarchy
Subculture
24. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Narcotizing dysfunction
Content analysis
Politics
25. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Deindustrialization
Sociobiology
Labor unions
Credentialism
26. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.
Racial group
Influence
Negotiated order
Religious beliefs
27. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.
Apartheid
Neocolonialism
Second shift
Social mobility
28. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
Bourgeoisie
Self
Achieved status
Cultural transmission
29. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.
Traditional authority
Second shift
Gatekeeping
World systems analysis
30. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.
Exploitation theory
Proletariat
Triad
Class consciousness
31. 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.
Significant others
Familism
Glass ceiling
Influence
32. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.
Environmental justice
Elite model
Organized crime
Concentric-zone theory
33. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.
Negotiation
Demography
Community
Invention
34. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.
Amalgamation
Social interaction
Rites of passage
Social science
35. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
Significant others
Pluralist model
Sociology
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
36. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Science
False consciousness
Surveillance function
Interactionist perspective
37. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Second shift
Norms
Laissez-faire
Castes
38. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.
Bureaucratization
Experiment
Conflict perspective
Dysfunction
39. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Bilateral descent
Social structure
Preindustrial city
Social institutions
40. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.
Social mobility
Role taking
Self
Sociological imagination
41. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Income
Politics
Socialization
Megalopolis
42. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.
Monogamy
Sociocultural evolution
Dependency theory
Negotiation
43. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Creationism
Bourgeoisie
Luddites
Intragenerational mobility
44. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Out-group
Monopoly
Law
Force
45. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Differential association
Ethnography
Primary group
Model or ideal minority
46. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Social role
Genocide
Folkways
Stereotypes
47. The ability to exercise one's will over others.
Power
Questionnaire
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Degradation ceremony
48. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.
Routine activities theory
Sociological imagination
Curanderismo
Gesellschaft
49. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Creationism
Coalition
Postindustrial city
Generalized others
50. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.
Control variable
Class
Monogamy
Tracking