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CLEP Sociology
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1. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Counterculture
Wealth
Class
Expressiveness
2. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.
Experimental group
Master status
Charismatic authority
Organized crime
3. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Life expectancy
Qualitative research
Assimilation
Hidden curriculum
4. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.
Control variable
Megalopolis
Material culture
Invention
5. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.
Multiple-nuclei theory
Causal logic
Scientific management approach
Cognitive theory of development
6. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Interview
Societal-reaction approach
Opinion leader
7. Anti-Jewish prejudice.
Charismatic authority
Model or ideal minority
Social structure
Anti-Semitism
8. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
Innovation
Values
Relative poverty
Deindustrialization
9. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.
Relative deprivation
Anti-Semitism
Bilateral descent
Preindustrial city
10. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.
Language
Negotiated order
Human relations approach
Degradation ceremony
11. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.
Incest taboo
Multilinear evolutionary theory
Monogamy
Egalitarian family
12. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.
Death rate
Intragenerational mobility
New religious movement (NRM) or cult
Culture
13. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Dyad
Counterculture
Bilingualism
14. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
Coalition
Alienation
Sexual harassment
Role exit
15. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.
Labor unions
Social inequality
Group
Subculture
16. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Defended neighborhood
Anticipatory socialization
Ecclesia
17. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.
Reliability
Equilibrium model
Validity
Economic system
18. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Megalopolis
Observation
Evolutionary theory
Experiment
19. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
Formal organization
Routine activities theory
Luddites
Socialism
20. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.
Black power
Social change
Issei
Evolutionary theory
21. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.
Culture lag
Sociology
Polygamy
Resocialization
22. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.
Social institutions
Feminist perspective
Diffusion
Amalgamation
23. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.
Socialization
Qualitative research
Extended family
Bilingualism
24. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Code of ethics
Culture shock
Formal organization
Modernization theory
25. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.
Group
Sociological imagination
Fertility
Reliability
26. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
Modernization theory
Black power
World systems analysis
Religious beliefs
27. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.
Patriarchy
Role strain
Deviance
Polygyny
28. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.
Sociocultural evolution
Language
Organized crime
Social movements
29. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Ethnography
Authority
Morbidity rates
Functionalist perspective
30. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.
Amalgamation
Urbanism
Patrilineal descent
Horizontal mobility
31. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.
Differential association
Influence
Crime
Matriarchy
32. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.
Vested interests
Kinship
Socialization
Black power
33. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.
Social role
Surveillance function
Status group
Neocolonialism
34. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Class system
Monogamy
Activity theory
Apartheid
35. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.
Bourgeoisie
Variable
Social movements
Castes
36. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.
Code of ethics
Primary group
Minority group
Stigma
37. Another name for labeling theory.
Science
Societal-reaction approach
Dyad
False consciousness
38. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
Innovation
Microsociology
Degradation ceremony
Postmodern society
39. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.
Activity theory
Random sample
Census
Cohabitation
40. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.
Nonmaterial culture
Social interaction
Dependent variable
Social change
41. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Negotiation
Secondary group
Vertical mobility
Cohabitation
42. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Classical theory
Liberation theology
White-collar crime
Iron law of oligarchy
43. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Societal-reaction approach
E-commerce
Ascribed status
Code of ethics
44. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.
McDonaldization
Victimization surveys
Horticultural societies
Gerontology
45. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.
Socialization
Matrilineal descent
Prestige
Industrial society
46. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.
Formal organization
Zero population growth (ZPG)
Goal displacement
Stratification
47. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.
Culture shock
Expressiveness
Culture lag
Teacher-expectancy effect
48. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.
Racial group
Social constructionist perspective
Correspondence principle
Religion
49. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.
Relative deprivation
Macrosociology
Traditional authority
Capitalism
50. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.
Expressiveness
Role strain
Second shift
Science