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