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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 artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Impression management
Control group
Experiment
Incidence
2. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Esteem
Obedience
Negotiation
Credentialism
3. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.
Research design
Influence
Colonialism
Morbidity rates
4. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.
Master status
Cultural relativism
Polyandry
Health
5. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Dependent variable
Hypothesis
Activity theory
Bourgeoisie
6. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.
Cultural transmission
Racial group
Looking-glass self
Death rate
7. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.
Code of ethics
Tracking
In-group
Agrarian society
8. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Monogamy
Colonialism
Research design
9. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
Voluntary associations
Discovery
Sect
Denomination
10. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.
Socialism
Political system
Sociological imagination
Closed system
11. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.
Sexual harassment
Formal norms
Disengagement theory
Discrimination
12. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.
Secularization
Population pyramid
Fertility
Sect
13. 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.
Impression management
Racial group
Health
Gatekeeping
14. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.
Endogamy
Observation
Curanderismo
Formal norms
15. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.
Anomie theory of deviance
Social control
Tracking
Postindustrial city
16. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Downsizing
Opinion leader
Triad
Social network
17. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.
Bureaucratization
Industrial city
Hunting-and-gathering society
Unilinear evolutionary theory
18. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.
Vertical mobility
Xenocentrism
Gesellschaft
Open system
19. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.
Content analysis
Power elite
Human ecology
Social institutions
20. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Class consciousness
Ecclesia
Bilingualism
Rites of passage
21. The ways in which people respond to one another.
Control group
Theory
Bourgeoisie
Social interaction
22. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.
Labeling theory
Demographic transition
Objective method
Group
23. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Status group
Neocolonialism
Dominant ideology
Microsociology
24. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.
Reliability
Environmental justice
Amalgamation
Values
25. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.
Life expectancy
Cohabitation
Rites of passage
Disengagement theory
26. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.
Homophobia
Social mobility
Education
Concentric-zone theory
27. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.
Xenocentrism
Control theory
Exogamy
Anticipatory socialization
28. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.
Racism
Looking-glass self
Bureaucracy
Curanderismo
29. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.
Black power
Patrilineal descent
Capitalism
Xenocentrism
30. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.
Vital statistics
Latent functions
Ageism
Political socialization
31. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.
Postmodern society
Macrosociology
Demographic transition
Discrimination
32. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.
Surveillance function
Death rate
Social constructionist perspective
Patrilineal descent
33. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.
Capitalism
Prestige
Pluralist model
Opinion leader
34. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.
Racial group
Cultural transmission
Horticultural societies
Survey
35. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
Obedience
Religious experience
Experimental group
Bilingualism
36. The study of various aspects of human society.
Social science
New urban sociology
Creationism
Evolutionary theory
37. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.
Dramaturgical approach
Interview
Adoption
Class system
38. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.
Adoption
McDonaldization
Incest taboo
Informal economy
39. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.
Gerontology
Normal accidents
Reliability
Incest taboo
40. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.
Model or ideal minority
Bilateral descent
E-commerce
Life expectancy
41. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.
Generalized others
Iron law of oligarchy
New social movements
Face-work
42. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.
Liberation theology
Victimless crimes
Unilinear evolutionary theory
Class system
43. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.
Sacred
World systems analysis
Creationism
Subculture
44. 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.
Community
Family
Secondary analysis
Alienation
45. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
Exploitation theory
Master status
Neocolonialism
Objective method
46. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.
Industrial society
Victimization surveys
Political system
Horticultural societies
47. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Polygyny
Vertical mobility
New social movements
Kinship
48. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.
Socialism
Technology
Stratification
Secondary analysis
49. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Profane
Microsociology
Horizontal mobility
Postindustrial society
50. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.
Matriarchy
Conflict perspective
Closed system
Hidden curriculum