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. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






2. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






3. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






4. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






5. 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.






6. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






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






8. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






9. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






10. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






11. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






12. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






13. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






14. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






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






16. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






17. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






18. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






19. 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.






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






21. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






22. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






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






24. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






25. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






26. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






27. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






28. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






29. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






30. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






31. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






32. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






33. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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






35. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






36. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






37. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






38. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






39. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






40. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






42. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






43. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






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






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






46. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






47. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






48. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






49. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






50. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.