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. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






2. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






3. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






4. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






5. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






6. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






7. 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.






8. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






9. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






10. Control of a market by a single business firm.






11. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






12. 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.






13. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






14. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






15. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






16. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






18. 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.






19. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






20. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






21. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






22. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






23. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






24. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






25. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






26. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






27. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






28. 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.






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






30. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






31. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






32. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






34. 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.






35. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






36. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






37. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






38. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






39. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






40. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






41. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






42. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






43. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






44. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






45. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






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






47. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






48. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






49. 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.






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