SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Sociology
Start Test
Study First
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. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.
Looking-glass self
Folkways
Experimental group
Reliability
2. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.
Innovation
Protestant ethic
Survey
Negotiated order
3. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.
Symbols
Formal social control
Role conflict
Microsociology
4. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.
Dominant ideology
New urban sociology
Industrial city
Bureaucracy
5. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.
Census
Relative deprivation
Bourgeoisie
Ageism
6. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.
Power
Stigma
Sect
Industrial society
7. The incidence of diseases in a given population.
Status
Morbidity rates
Secularization
Proletariat
8. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
Agrarian society
Scientific method
Narcotizing dysfunction
Assimilation
9. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.
Social mobility
Science
Bilingualism
Globalization
10. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.
Experiment
Professional criminal
Relative poverty
Independent variable
11. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.
Slavery
Reliability
Social network
Personality
12. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.
Cultural universals
Looking-glass self
Symbols
Society
13. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
Total fertility rate (TFR)
Religious beliefs
Social network
Gerontology
14. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.
Population pyramid
Denomination
Stigma
Modernization
15. 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.
Horizontal mobility
Minority group
Negotiated order
Health
16. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.
Closed system
Cultural universals
Differential association
Education
17. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.
Class system
Infant mortality rate
Causal logic
Social change
18. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.
Health
Prestige
Anomie
Ecclesia
19. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.
Elite model
Exploitation theory
Polygyny
Law
20. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.
Personality
Social institutions
Alienation
Verstehen
21. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.
Scientific management approach
Community
Random sample
Religious experience
22. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
Single-parent families
Master status
Small group
Census
23. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.
Questionnaire
Iron law of oligarchy
Instrumentality
Observation
24. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
New social movements
Dependency theory
Cognitive theory of development
Machismo
25. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.
Societal-reaction approach
Horizontal mobility
Colonialism
Social epidemiology
26. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.
Castes
Segregation
Experimental group
Social mobility
27. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.
Pluralism
Role taking
Classical theory
Traditional authority
28. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.
Secondary group
Matriarchy
Incidence
Correspondence principle
29. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.
Population pyramid
Language
Castes
Homophobia
30. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
Stratification
Politics
Prevalence
Status
31. 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.
Modernization theory
Human relations approach
Multiple-nuclei theory
Industrial city
32. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.
Correspondence principle
Causal logic
Life expectancy
Agrarian society
33. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
Influence
Argot
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Political system
34. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.
Power
Downsizing
Negotiation
Elite model
35. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
Defended neighborhood
Prevalence
Rites of passage
Correlation
36. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.
Horizontal mobility
Code of ethics
Polygamy
Social change
37. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.
Experiment
Deindustrialization
Prevalence
Hunting-and-gathering society
38. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.
Primary group
Gender roles
Genocide
Protestant ethic
39. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.
Mores
Authority
Castes
Established sect
40. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.
Qualitative research
Opinion leader
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Organized crime
41. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.
In-group
Political system
Coalition
Independent variable
42. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.
Norms
Environmental justice
Familism
Monogamy
43. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.
Narcotizing dysfunction
Social structure
Pluralist model
Vertical mobility
44. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.
Conformity
Familism
Religious rituals
Technology
45. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.
Cultural relativism
Goal displacement
Closed system
Small group
46. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
Counterculture
Dominant ideology
Urbanism
Innovation
47. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.
Nonverbal communication
Absolute poverty
Sociobiology
New social movements
48. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
Stereotypes
Innovation
Manifest functions
Human ecology
49. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.
Primary group
Minority group
Influence
Activity theory
50. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.
Formal organization
Influence
Sect
Rites of passage