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CLEP Sociology
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1. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.
Victimization surveys
Classical theory
Curanderismo
Castes
2. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.
Stigma
Role conflict
Subculture
Human relations approach
3. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Industrial city
Established sect
Prestige
Bilingualism
4. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.
Random sample
Invention
Dramaturgical approach
Closed system
5. 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.
Proletariat
Resource mobilization
Routine activities theory
McDonaldization
6. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.
Informal norms
Political socialization
Symbols
Religious beliefs
7. The incidence of death in a given population.
False consciousness
Class system
Mortality rate
Dependency theory
8. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Force
Familism
Bureaucratization
Causal logic
9. 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.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Health
Face-work
Exogamy
10. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.
Postindustrial society
Dyad
World systems analysis
Single-parent families
11. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.
Single-parent families
Serial monogamy
Control group
Crime
12. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.
Postindustrial city
Social control
Death rate
Class consciousness
13. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Mortality rate
Laissez-faire
Liberation theology
Invention
14. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.
Life expectancy
Role strain
Equilibrium model
Gatekeeping
15. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.
Model or ideal minority
Relative poverty
Cultural transmission
Vital statistics
16. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Morbidity rates
Group
Opinion leader
17. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Patriarchy
Language
Elite model
Hidden curriculum
18. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Political system
Community
Sanctions
19. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Looking-glass self
Social inequality
Luddites
Intergenerational mobility
20. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Hawthorne effect
Values
Defended neighborhood
Culture shock
21. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Cognitive theory of development
Social change
Informal norms
Reliability
22. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.
Bilateral descent
Wealth
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Proletariat
23. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.
Growth rate
Coalition
Law
Sociocultural evolution
24. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.
Culture lag
Survey
Open system
Microsociology
25. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Racism
Voluntary associations
Peter principle
Macrosociology
26. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'
Scientific management approach
Relative poverty
Politics
Endogamy
27. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
Laissez-faire
Symbols
Natural science
In-group
28. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Interactionist perspective
Social inequality
Normal accidents
Symbols
29. 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.
Achieved status
Charismatic authority
Xenocentrism
Family
30. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.
Affirmative action
Science
Argot
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
31. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Innovation
Extended family
Dramaturgical approach
Routine activities theory
32. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.
Dominant ideology
Segregation
Ethnic group
Role strain
33. Control of a market by a single business firm.
Monopoly
Society
Globalization
False consciousness
34. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Total institutions
Primary group
Agrarian society
35. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Egalitarian family
Liberation theology
Gesellschaft
Patrilineal descent
36. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Bourgeoisie
Generalized others
Hawthorne effect
Triad
37. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
E-commerce
Latent functions
Ethnography
Anomie
38. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.
White-collar crime
Evolutionary theory
Independent variable
Socialization
39. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.
Negotiation
Resocialization
Macrosociology
Intragenerational mobility
40. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.
Routine activities theory
Self
Secondary group
Reference group
41. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.
Ideal type
Self
Contact hypothesis
Underclass
42. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.
Intergenerational mobility
Telecommuters
Horticultural societies
Labeling theory
43. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Apartheid
Degradation ceremony
Open system
Class
44. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Castes
Urbanism
Formal norms
Multilinear evolutionary theory
45. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Functionalist perspective
Social science
Demographic transition
Folkways
46. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.
Bilingualism
Luddites
Prejudice
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
47. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Monogamy
Social constructionist perspective
Routine activities theory
Religious rituals
48. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.
Macrosociology
Peter principle
Intergenerational mobility
Social institutions
49. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Ecclesia
Stereotypes
Established sect
Luddites
50. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.
Gender roles
Primary group
Activity theory
Total institutions