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CLEP Social Sciences And History
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1. Believed that society follows a natural evolutionary path toward something better.
scientific perspective
metaphysical stage
Herbert Spencer
sociology
2. Auguste Comte's belief that the definitive stage of all knowledge in the search for general ideas or laws. With such knowledge of how society is held together and how society changes - predictions on how people will react can be made - therefore cont
Karl Marx
positive stage
hypothesis
social sciences
3. A sample where every member of the population has the same chance of being chose for a study - and selecting as many as are thought necessary to achieve representativeness.
theological stage
random sample
generalization
conflict theory
4. Proceeds from general ideas - knowledge - or understanding of the social world from which specific hypotheses are logically deduced and tested.
Emile Durkheim
deductive theory
Karl Marx
scientific perspective
5. Researcher try to understand either causal or correlational relationships between variables - either independent or dependent variables.
causal relationship
explanatory survey
stratified sampling
quantitative methods
6. Proceeds from the concrete observations from which general conclusions are inferred through a process of reasoning.
theological stage
Auguste Comte
sociologist
inductive theory
7. Auguste Comte's belief that scientists look to the real world for an explanation of what is observed.
metaphysical stage
correlational relationship
experimental group
Max Weber
8. Studied suicide.
systematic sampling
inductive theory
metaphysical stage
Emile Durkheim
9. Initiated from actual observation and built into a general theory.
generalization
Talcott Parsons
explanatory survey
Karl Marx
10. Coined the term sociology in 1838 to demarcate the field - its subject matter - and methods.
Auguste Comte
sociology
theological stage
hypothesis
11. A variable that is being influenced by another variable.
explanatory survey
survey method
control
dependent variable
12. Generated from theory and tested through actual observation.
survey method
Talcott Parsons
hypothesis
structural functionalism
13. A technique of differentiating between factors that may or may not influence the relationship between variable.
systematic sampling
control
random sample
dependent variable
14. Developed by Max Weber as a means of characterizing and interpreting by applying reason to external and inner context of specific social situations - such as the origins of Western capitalism.
Robert Merton
verstehen
sociology
causal relationship
15. Observed England's social patterns during social change in Europe (1802 - 1876).
Emile Durkheim
Harriet Martineau
C. Wright Mills
Herbert Spencer
16. Personal observation and description of social life in order to explain behavior - this methods entails the loss of precision but achieves a deeper grasp of the texture of social life.
survey method
qualitative methods
Max Weber
systematic sampling
17. Inspired by writings of Emile Durkeim and Herbert Spencer which said the components of a society are interdependent - with each one serving a function necessary for the survival of the system as a whole.
Karl Marx
metaphysical stage
structural functionalism
inductive theory
18. Believed that a certain quality of mind is required in order to understand ourselves in relation to society.
representative sample
C. Wright Mills
structural functionalism
systematic sampling
19. A type of sampling where the nth unit in a list is selected for inclusion in the sample. For example - every 50th resident listed in a phone book of a given area.
structural functionalism
independent variable
systematic sampling
survey method
20. Advocated grand theory - involving the building of a theory of society based on aspects of the real world to form a society as a stable system of interrelated parts.
random sample
representative sample
Talcott Parsons
Karl Marx
21. Primarily concerned with acquiring objective empirical knowledge and not with the uses to which such knowledge is put. Concerned with 'what it' and not with 'what should be.'
scientific perspective
control
correlational relationship
dependent variable
22. Proposed building middle range theories from a limited number of assumptions for which hypotheses are derived. Also distinguished between manifest or intended - latent unintended - consequences of existing elements of social structure that are either
Robert Merton
representative sample
positive stage
Herbert Spencer
23. Making use of statistical and other mathematical techniques of quantification or measurement in an effort to describe and interpret observations.
qualitative methods
control
quantitative methods
dependent variable
24. Auguste Comte's belief that scientists look toward the supernatural realm of ideas for explanation of what is observed.
theological stage
qualitative methods
deductive theory
social sciences
25. Sought to explain the origins of capitalism.
Max Weber
sociology
independent variable
qualitative methods
26. The quality of mind that seeks to expand the role of freedom - choice - and conscious decision in history by means of knowledge. Personal troubles often reflect broader social issues and problems.
Talcott Parsons
Emile Durkheim
scientific perspective
sociological imagination
27. A research method where subjects are interviewed about their opinions - beliefs - behavior - in a series of questions - to aid the researcher in collecting information about general population characteristics or collecting information about some even
survey method
deductive theory
correlational relationship
C. Wright Mills
28. A means to advance human welfare through self-realization - full development of the cultivated personality - improvement of the human social condition.
interpretative
social sciences
metaphysical stage
humanistic perspective
29. The science or discipline that studies societies - social groups - and the relationships between people.
sociologist
sociology
positive stage
theological stage
30. A sample that is relatively accurate in reflecting the population from which it is drawn.
Auguste Comte
theological stage
representative sample
inductive theory
31. One that influences another variable.
humanistic perspective
independent variable
verstehen
control
32. A relationship that exists when a change in one variable coincides with - but does not cause - a change in another variable.
control group
correlational relationship
explanatory survey
stratified sampling
33. One of three approaches to recent sociology studies. Views society as being characterized by conflict and inequality. Questions such factors as race - gender - social class - and age and the unequal distribution of socially valued goods and rewards (
conflict theory
systematic sampling
control
random sample
34. Concerned with psychology with its emphasis on behavior and mental processes - social life - economic with its emphasis on production - distribution - and consumption of goods - political science with emphasis on political philosophy and forms of gov
Emile Durkheim
Harriet Martineau
social sciences
C. Wright Mills
35. When a change in one variable causes or forces a change in another variable.
sociological imagination
causal relationship
sociology
experimental group
36. A type of sampling that uses the differences that already exist in a population as the basis for selecting a sample i.e. - male/female. The researcher can then determine the percentage of each group - then randomly select a number of persons to be st
conflict theory
stratified sampling
inductive theory
Karl Marx
37. Perspectives of symbolic interaction - dramaturgy - and ethnomethodology.
control group
interpretative
stratified sampling
survey method
38. A group of subjects exposed to a particular condition in a study.
experimental group
theological stage
survey method
interpretative
39. The theoretical giant of communist thought whose prophecies are still hotly debated.
social sciences
metaphysical stage
Karl Marx
humanistic perspective
40. One who focuses on a number of different levels of analysis in understanding social life - social interaction within groups - social structure.
sociologist
social sciences
positive stage
structural functionalism
41. A group of subjects not exposed to the same condition as an experimental group.
control group
Robert Merton
sociologist
causal relationship