CLEP SOCIOLOGY QUESTIONS AND CLEAR GUARANTEED ANSWERS 2023/2024

CLEP SOCIOLOGY QUESTIONS AND CLEAR GUARANTEED ANSWERS 2023/2024 impression management - correct answer the conscious manipulation of role performance status inconsistency - correct answer a condition in which a person holds a higher position on one dimension of stratification than on another functionalist argument - correct answer based on the assumption that society's complex systems work together to maintain stability negative correlation - correct answer an association between two variables so that as one increases the other decreases spurious relationship - correct answer an apparent association that can actually be explained by a third variable positive correlation - correct answer both variables increase or decrease together content analysis - correct answer the researcher uses artifacts and existing data pluralist movement - correct answer minority groups attempt to maintain their own distinctive cultural features, while still operating within the larger society assimilationist movement - correct answer the minority completely adopts the culture and way of life of the majority segregationist movement - correct answer separate public accommodations (schools, houses, parks, buses, etc.) are set up for minorities, within the same society expulsion - correct answer the process whereby the dominant group attempts to force an unwanted population out of their borders multiculturalism - correct answer a variety of cultures living in the same society verstehen - correct answer the term Weber used to describe his method for analyzing a particular social phenomenon social statics - correct answer a term made popular by Herbert Spencer symbolic interaction perspective - correct answer looks to individual interaction and interpretation to explain social behavior structural functionalist perspective - correct answer views society on a macro level, looking not to individual interaction, but how society's parts fit together to maintain stability. institutional discrimination - correct answer occurs when inequalities are built into institutions and disproportionately disadvantages an entire category of people based on nothing more than their group membership; unintended and carried out by institutions, not individuals Strain theory - correct answer asserts that people commit crimes when their means for achievement are obstructed. According to this theory, all of us desire the "American Dream" but only some of us are put in positions to achieve that dream. The consequence is that those people blocked from achievement find illegitimate means to succeed.