Test your basic knowledge |

CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The scientific study of population.






2. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






3. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






4. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






5. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






6. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






7. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






8. 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.






9. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






10. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






11. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






12. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






13. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






14. 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.






15. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






16. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






17. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






18. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






19. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






20. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






21. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






22. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






23. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






24. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






25. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






26. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






27. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






28. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






29. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






30. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






31. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






32. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






33. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






34. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






35. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






36. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






37. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






38. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






39. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






40. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






41. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






42. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






43. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






44. According to






45. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






46. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






47. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






48. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






49. Governmental social control.






50. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.







Sorry!:) No result found.

Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?


Let me suggest you:

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests



Major Subjects

Tests & Exams


AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT

Browse all subjects

Browse all tests

Most popular tests