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