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CLEP Social Sciences And History
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Answer 41 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Auguste Comte's belief that scientists look toward the supernatural realm of ideas for explanation of what is observed.
humanistic perspective
theological stage
causal relationship
representative sample
2. 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.
humanistic perspective
causal relationship
qualitative methods
verstehen
3. 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
verstehen
deductive theory
explanatory survey
4. 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.'
causal relationship
explanatory survey
representative sample
scientific perspective
5. A variable that is being influenced by another variable.
dependent variable
generalization
Robert Merton
survey method
6. A means to advance human welfare through self-realization - full development of the cultivated personality - improvement of the human social condition.
Herbert Spencer
Robert Merton
positive stage
humanistic perspective
7. Sought to explain the origins of capitalism.
deductive theory
hypothesis
Max Weber
theological stage
8. Studied suicide.
conflict theory
control group
Emile Durkheim
experimental group
9. One that influences another variable.
metaphysical stage
independent variable
positive stage
Karl Marx
10. The theoretical giant of communist thought whose prophecies are still hotly debated.
explanatory survey
Karl Marx
control
scientific perspective
11. Believed that a certain quality of mind is required in order to understand ourselves in relation to society.
causal relationship
dependent variable
experimental group
C. Wright Mills
12. A technique of differentiating between factors that may or may not influence the relationship between variable.
control
causal relationship
deductive theory
survey method
13. Observed England's social patterns during social change in Europe (1802 - 1876).
stratified sampling
control
Harriet Martineau
Max Weber
14. 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 (
sociology
conflict theory
independent variable
survey method
15. Researcher try to understand either causal or correlational relationships between variables - either independent or dependent variables.
social sciences
explanatory survey
qualitative methods
C. Wright Mills
16. 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.
inductive theory
Talcott Parsons
sociologist
dependent variable
17. Coined the term sociology in 1838 to demarcate the field - its subject matter - and methods.
Auguste Comte
structural functionalism
quantitative methods
Harriet Martineau
18. 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.
random sample
quantitative methods
correlational relationship
stratified sampling
19. Perspectives of symbolic interaction - dramaturgy - and ethnomethodology.
conflict theory
causal relationship
interpretative
control group
20. Making use of statistical and other mathematical techniques of quantification or measurement in an effort to describe and interpret observations.
representative sample
quantitative methods
experimental group
Harriet Martineau
21. The science or discipline that studies societies - social groups - and the relationships between people.
deductive theory
correlational relationship
control
sociology
22. When a change in one variable causes or forces a change in another variable.
causal relationship
positive stage
generalization
control
23. One who focuses on a number of different levels of analysis in understanding social life - social interaction within groups - social structure.
Talcott Parsons
Max Weber
C. Wright Mills
sociologist
24. Believed that society follows a natural evolutionary path toward something better.
Herbert Spencer
survey method
interpretative
Max Weber
25. 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
positive stage
survey method
Talcott Parsons
inductive theory
26. 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
explanatory survey
humanistic perspective
structural functionalism
stratified sampling
27. A relationship that exists when a change in one variable coincides with - but does not cause - a change in another variable.
Karl Marx
correlational relationship
Robert Merton
humanistic perspective
28. Proceeds from general ideas - knowledge - or understanding of the social world from which specific hypotheses are logically deduced and tested.
correlational relationship
hypothesis
Max Weber
deductive theory
29. 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.
independent variable
sociological imagination
experimental group
survey method
30. 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
representative sample
experimental group
positive stage
social sciences
31. Generated from theory and tested through actual observation.
hypothesis
sociological imagination
survey method
C. Wright Mills
32. Initiated from actual observation and built into a general theory.
interpretative
generalization
C. Wright Mills
Herbert Spencer
33. 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
hypothesis
survey method
correlational relationship
Herbert Spencer
34. A group of subjects exposed to a particular condition in a study.
sociologist
experimental group
deductive theory
Auguste Comte
35. 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.
verstehen
metaphysical stage
generalization
experimental group
36. 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.
metaphysical stage
positive stage
systematic sampling
interpretative
37. A group of subjects not exposed to the same condition as an experimental group.
scientific perspective
control group
Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
38. A sample that is relatively accurate in reflecting the population from which it is drawn.
stratified sampling
representative sample
theological stage
explanatory survey
39. 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.
C. Wright Mills
structural functionalism
stratified sampling
experimental group
40. Proceeds from the concrete observations from which general conclusions are inferred through a process of reasoning.
control
hypothesis
inductive theory
quantitative methods
41. Auguste Comte's belief that scientists look to the real world for an explanation of what is observed.
verstehen
metaphysical stage
Herbert Spencer
stratified sampling