SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Sociology
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
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. Status set that society sees as mismatched
re-socialization
Retribution
status inconsistency
in-groups
2. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
stereotypes
status inconsistency
power
street crime
3. Preparing for future roles
anticipatory socialization
Four purposes of punishment
Coercion
cultural goal
4. A system of providing goods and services
economy
in-groups
primary deviance
5 major group tasks
5. Leading by trying to reach consensus
peer group
societal transformation
sub urbanization
democratic leadership
6. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
Self-fulfilling prophecy
secondary relationships
primary groups
societal transformation
7. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
discretion
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
studied non-observance
social control
8. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
gemeinschaft
human nature
Self-fulfilling prophecy
instrumental leader
9. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
groupthink
Self-fulfilling prophecy
dramaturgy
status symbols
10. A) The elite group members make up the laws b) The elite group members structure society so that they have more opportunities than others c) Discretion benefits the elite in all parts of the criminal justice system d) The oppressed must organize to r
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
networking
Conflict theory
5 major group tasks
11. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
Laissez-faire leadership:
social aggregate
identification
looking glass self
12. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
knowledge work
feeling rules
charismatic authority
master status
13. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
impression management
role
social control
Deterrence
14. Based on large scale agriculture
conformity
societal transformation
Four purposes of punishment
agrarian society
15. Re-socializing a criminal so that he or she no longer wants to do crime - but can live a non-criminal life ('Go and sin no more')
Laissez-faire leadership:
Rehabilitation
social differentiation
(Merton's) Strain Theory
16. Conformity to establish or maintain a relationship with a person or group
identification
social loafing
emotion work
traditional authority
17. Social positions earned or obtained
role strain
mass media
achieved status
social category
18. What they actually did
social category
role performance
hunting and gathering
social structure
19. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
bonding ties
criminal justice system
socialization
20. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
6 types of societies
compliance
mechanical solidarity
parole
21. Authority based on custom
social groups
traditional authority
democratic leadership
peer group
22. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
(Merton's) Strain Theory
re-socialization
theories deviance
out-groups
23. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
backstage
stereotypes
groupthink
role strain
24. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
25. The view [developed by Howard Becker] that the labels people are given affect 1. The way others respond to that person [interaction] - and 2. their own self-concept [internalization] Thus channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conform
labeling theory
studied non-observance
in-groups
role strain
26. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
5 major group tasks
restitution
bridging ties
hunting and gathering
27. A system of providing goods and services
Mead: the self and role taking
crime
social aggregate
economy
28. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
achieved status
bridging ties
stigma
economy
29. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
Incapacitation
social loafing
reference groups
economy
30. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
crowd
status set
role strain
Incapacitation
31. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
secondary groups
restitution
capital punishment
power
32. A group with three members
triad
criminal justice system
pastoral society
Coercion
33. Leading by trying to reach consensus
secondary deviance
backstage
democratic leadership
looking glass self
34. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
human nature
economy
crime
Mead: the self and role taking
35. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
agents of socialization
conformity
power
status
36. The death penalty
power
Conflict theory
capital punishment
industrial society
37. Ways in which people express their leadership
Rehabilitation
theory of social contract
dramaturgy
leadership styles
38. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
sub urbanization
6 types of societies
gesellschaft
social interaction
39. Informational jobs
social category
knowledge work
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
social control
40. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
three parts of the self
Four purposes of punishment
embarrassment
re-socialization
41. Any violation of rules or norms
internalization
authority
pastoral society
deviance
42. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
societal transformation
bonding ties
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
conformity
43. Based on information services and high technology
service work
traditional authority
role exit
post-industrial society
44. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
reference groups
clique
theory of social contract
theories deviance
45. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
horticultural society
surplus
peer group
networking
46. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
group dynamics
internalization
Differential Association
street crime
47. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
triad
bonding ties
social institutions
cultural goal
48. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
group cohesion
stigma
social capital
4 social revolutions and key inventions
49. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
authority
secondary groups
looking glass self
knowledge work
50. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183