(CLEP) Introductory Sociology

Question 1

The Science or discipline that studies society, social groups, and the relationships between people.

Answer 1

Sociology

Question 2

A sociologists approach which sees sociology as a means to advance
human welfare.
They seek self-realization, the full development of a cultivated personality,
or improvement of the social condition.

Answer 2

Humanistic Approach

Question 3

The sociological approach that is primarily concerned with acquiring objective empirical knowledge (the actual knowledge derived from experience or observation that can be measured or counted).
Concerned with “what is” not “What should be.”

Answer 3

Scientific Approach

Question 4

According to________, a certain quality of mind is required if we are to understand ourselves in relation to society.

Answer 4

C. Wright Mills

Question 5

Mills referred knowledge as the “______ ______”

Answer 5

“Sociological Imagination”

Question 6

The word sociology was coined in ____

Answer 6

1838

Question 7

________ ________ coined the word Sociology in 1938.
He used the Latin word socius–“companion, with others”
and the Greek word ology–“study of”

Answer 7

Auguste Comte

Question 8

Comte concluded every science (beginning
with astronomy and ending with sociology)
follows the same regular pattern for development. In the first stage scientist look to the supernatural realm for explanations for what they observe.

Answer 8

THEOLOGICAL Stage

Question 9

In the second stage scientist look to the real

world for explanations.

Answer 9

MetaPHYSICAL Stage

Question 10

In the third (and final) stage, scientists look

for general ideas or laws

Answer 10

Positive Stage

Question 11

Name of how society is held together

Answer 11

Social Statics

Question 12

Name of how a society changes

Answer 12

Social Dynamics

Question 13

Comte laid the foundations for the

“Theoretical giant of Communist thought”

Answer 13

Karl Marx (1818-1883

Question 14

The mans whose idea that society is evolving

better. Also, he coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.”

Answer 14

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Question 15

The man who did a statistical study of suicide

50 years after Comte.

Answer 15

Emilie Durkheim (1858-1917)

Question 16

In a series of studies, sought to explain

Capitalism. He also tested Comte’s ideas.

Answer 16

Max Weber (1864-1920)

Question 17

American sociology experienced a loss of

interest in the larger problems of social order under the leadership of who?

Answer 17

Lester Ward (1841-1913)
and
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)

Question 18

The famed functionalist who touched a generation of sociologists by advocating
Grand Theory.

Answer 18

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)

Question 19

Involved the building of a theory of society
based on aspects of the real word and the
organization of these concepts to form a
conception of society as a stable system
of interrelated parts.

Answer 19

Grand Theory

Question 20

Who proposed building middle range theories from a limited number of assumptions from which hypotheses are derived??

Answer 20

Robert Merton (1910-2003)

Question 21

_____ describes and/or explains the
relationship between two or more
observations.

Answer 21

Theory

Question 22

________ theory proceeds from general

ideas, knowledge, or understanding of the social world from which specific hypotheses are logically tested.

Answer 22

Deductive

Question 23

_________ theory proceeds from concrete
observation from which general conclusions
are inferred through a process of reasoning.

Answer 23

Inductive

Question 24

_____________ sociology studies the

processes whereby humans attach meaning to their lives.

Answer 24

Interpretive

Question 25

_______ ________ views society as being
characterized by inequality. Concerned with
questions such as, who benefits or suffers
w/in existing social context?

Answer 25

Conflict paradigm

Question 26

Inspired by Emilie Durkheim and Herbert
Spencer, ________ originally took its logical starting point a society conceived as a social system of interrelated parts, and therefore analogous to a living organism where each part contributes to the overall stability of the whole.

Answer 26

Functionalism

Question 27

________ ________ refers to both the

to a strategy or a plan for carrying out research and the means of carrying out the strategy.

Answer 27

Research Method

Question 28

some sociologist use ________ ________,
they make use of statistical and other mathematical techniques of measurements in their efforts to interpret and describe what they observe

Answer 28

quantitative

Question 29

Some sociologist use ________ ________,

relying on personal observations

Answer 29

qualitative