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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (BA Sociology) , Sociology (CBCS) .
| 1. |
British sociologist __________ translated and condensed Comte’s work and was noted for her study of social customs in Great Britain and the United States. |
| A. | Harriet Nelson. |
| B. | Jane Addams |
| C. | Harriet Martineau |
| D. | Sarah Spencer |
| Answer» C. Harriet Martineau | |
| 2. |
According to the __________ perspective, society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups. |
| A. | functionalist |
| B. | Conflict |
| C. | Symbolic interactionist |
| D. | Postmodern |
| Answer» C. Symbolic interactionist | |
| 3. |
A __________ is anything that meaningfully represents something else and includes signs, gestures, written language, and shared values. |
| A. | symbol |
| B. | sociological construct |
| C. | Norms |
| D. | Status |
| Answer» A. symbol | |
| 4. |
A physician wears a white lab coat and a stethoscope. The patient sees these as representing Knowledge and authority. |
| A. | The coat and stethoscope area signals that defines the relationships between individuals. |
| B. | symbols used to define a relationship between individuals. |
| C. | symbols of power inequality among the individuals. |
| D. | signs that this is a public interaction among individuals. |
| Answer» B. symbols used to define a relationship between individuals. | |
| 5. |
From the symbolic interactionist perspective, each person's interpretation or definition of a given situation becomes a(n) __________ from that person's viewpoint |
| A. | objective phenomenon |
| B. | Subjective reality |
| C. | Imagination |
| D. | fictitious thought |
| Answer» B. Subjective reality | |
| 6. |
According to the __________ perspective, existing theories have been unsuccessful in explaining social life in contemporary societies that are characterized by postindustrialization, consumerism, and global communications. |
| A. | functionalist |
| B. | Conflict |
| C. | Symbolic interactionist |
| D. | postmodern |
| Answer» D. postmodern | |
| 7. |
In relation to the study of education in America, __________ would look at the role the schools play in maintaining the social system as a whole; how education provides the young with skills they need later in life; and how it transmits cultural values from one generation to the next. |
| A. | symbolic interactionists |
| B. | postmodern theorists |
| C. | functionalists |
| D. | conflict theorists |
| Answer» C. functionalists | |
| 8. |
In relation to the study of education in America, __________ would emphasize the daily activities within the schools and the various forms of communication between teachers and students. They would also examine the influence of peer groups and look at the reaction when school rules are broken or followed. |
| A. | conflict theorists |
| B. | symbolic interactionists |
| C. | postmodern theorists |
| D. | functionalists |
| Answer» B. symbolic interactionists | |
| 9. |
In relation to the study of homelessness in American society, __________ would look at changing relationships in the family and economic conditions which causes homelessnessamong people who are unable to find jobs and do not have a family support system to fall back on. |
| A. | symbolic interactionists |
| B. | conflict theorists |
| C. | postmodern theorists |
| D. | functionalists |
| Answer» D. functionalists | |
| 10. |
In relation to the study of homelessness in American society, __________ would place emphasis on the struggle between social classes, especially how the policies of the wealthy push certain groups into unemployment and homelessness, and would examine welfare program reform. |
| A. | conflicttheorists |
| B. | functionalists |
| C. | symbolic interactionists |
| D. | postmoderntheorists |
| Answer» A. conflicttheorists | |
| 11. |
Foucault summarizes the current shifts in historical studies as a new 'interrogation' of what? |
| A. | The spirit of history |
| B. | The document |
| C. | The statement |
| D. | The fate of objects |
| Answer» B. The document | |
| 12. |
Which of Foucault's books precede the Archeology of Knowledge? |
| A. | The Order of Things,The History of Sexuality, and Birth of the Clinic |
| B. | Birth of the Clinic,Madness and Civilization,and The History of Sexuality |
| C. | Madness And civilization ,The order of things and birth of clinic |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Madness And civilization ,The order of things and birth of clinic | |
| 13. |
Which is not one of the forms of historical unity that Foucault rejects? |
| A. | The œuvre |
| B. | Discursive Unity |
| C. | The progress of Reason |
| D. | The Book |
| Answer» B. Discursive Unity | |
| 14. |
What is the central historical field addressed by the archeological method? |
| A. | The history of sciences |
| B. | The history of grammar |
| C. | Economic History |
| D. | The history of ideas |
| Answer» A. The history of sciences | |
| 15. |
Which is not one of the four major aspects of discursive regularity to emerge from Foucault's 'four hypotheses' about discursive unity? |
| A. | The formation of objects |
| B. | The formation of strategies |
| C. | The formation of events |
| D. | The formation of enunciative positions |
| Answer» C. The formation of events | |
| 16. |
Which is not one of the sciences used as an example by Foucault? |
| A. | psycopathology |
| B. | Grammer |
| C. | Engineering |
| D. | Mathematics |
| Answer» C. Engineering | |
| 17. |
An object of discourse first appears where? |
| A. | The threshold of scientificity |
| B. | A surface of emergence |
| C. | The threshold of epistemolegisation |
| D. | In conditions of possibility |
| Answer» B. A surface of emergence | |
| 18. |
Foucault's term 'strategies' refers to what aspect of a discourse? |
| A. | Themes and theories |
| B. | Positionality and positivity |
| C. | Documents and the archive |
| D. | Successions and recurrences |
| Answer» A. Themes and theories | |
| 19. |
Which term refers to a situation in which two incompatible objects, concepts, or types of enunciation have the same conditions of emergence and try to occupy the same discursive space? |
| A. | Point of discontinuity |
| B. | Point of rejection |
| C. | Point of bifurication |
| D. | point of diffraction |
| Answer» D. point of diffraction | |
| 20. |
What is the basic element of discourse? |
| A. | The document |
| B. | The œuvre |
| C. | The statement |
| D. | The threshold |
| Answer» C. The statement | |
| 21. |
The statement is defined by its what? |
| A. | Content |
| B. | Associated field |
| C. | Conditions of disappearance |
| D. | Materiality |
| Answer» B. Associated field | |
| 22. |
Why is the statement is not reducible to the speech act? |
| A. | Because the statement is materially grounded and the speech act is not. |
| B. | Because the speech act may involve more than one statement. |
| C. | Because materiality does not matter for the statement, but does for the speech act. |
| D. | Because speech acts can be unintentional and statements cannot. |
| Answer» C. Because materiality does not matter for the statement, but does for the speech act. | |
| 23. |
Which cannot be considered a statement? |
| A. | A row of typewriter keys |
| B. | A medical chart |
| C. | A novel |
| D. | A meaningless sentence |
| Answer» A. A row of typewriter keys | |
| 24. |
The quality of 'material repeatability' applies to what? |
| A. | Propositions only |
| B. | Propositions and material documents |
| C. | Statements only |
| D. | Statements and material documents |
| Answer» C. Statements only | |
| 25. |
Materiality is important in statements in what sense? |
| A. | The sense of material institutions |
| B. | The sense of physical material |
| C. | The sense of the 'feel' of the material |
| D. | The sense of the circulation of the material |
| Answer» A. The sense of material institutions | |
| 26. |
What term can be defined as 'the units of meaning that grammar recognizes in a series of signs?' |
| A. | Sentence |
| B. | Statement |
| C. | Proposition |
| D. | Formulation |
| Answer» A. Sentence | |
| 27. |
What term can be defined as the 'act that produces a group of signs materially?' |
| A. | Statement |
| B. | Propotion |
| C. | Formulation |
| D. | Projection |
| Answer» C. Formulation | |
| 28. |
What term can be defined as the 'modality of existence of a series of signs?' |
| A. | Discourse |
| B. | Formulation |
| C. | Archive |
| D. | Statement |
| Answer» D. Statement | |
| 29. |
In contrast to the history of ideas, how does the archeological method approach the field of statements? |
| A. | As a 'plethora' |
| B. | As a set of 'rarities' |
| C. | As a hidden unity |
| D. | As a totality |
| Answer» B. As a set of 'rarities' | |
| 30. |
For archeology, a discourse is an 'expression' of what? |
| A. | The mind of its founder |
| B. | The spirit of the age |
| C. | Nothing |
| D. | The unconscious desires of a people |
| Answer» C. Nothing | |
| 31. |
Which term has two explicitly different meanings, one in the history of ideas and one in archeology? |
| A. | Originality |
| B. | Regularity |
| C. | Change |
| D. | Linearity |
| Answer» B. Regularity | |
| 32. |
In the history of ideas, which term can serve as both an obstacle to be overcome in the field of discourse and as a founding principle of discourse? |
| A. | Originality |
| B. | Regularity |
| C. | Contradiction |
| D. | Transformation |
| Answer» C. Contradiction | |
| 33. |
On what basis can we analyze the ways in which science is ideological? |
| A. | On the basis of its discursive relations |
| B. | On the basis of its internal consistency |
| C. | On the basis of its categorization of statements |
| D. | On its truthfulness |
| Answer» A. On the basis of its discursive relations | |
| 34. |
In the Conclusion, Foucault is accused of being which of the following? |
| A. | A fundamentalist |
| B. | A structuralist |
| C. | A phenomenologist |
| D. | A reactionary |
| Answer» B. A structuralist | |
| 35. |
Comte's term 'positivism' refers to: |
| A. | a theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society |
| B. | the precise, scientific study of observable phenomena |
| C. | a theory that posits difficult questions and sets out to them |
| D. | an unscientific set of laws about social progress |
| Answer» B. the precise, scientific study of observable phenomena | |
| 36. |
In Marx's theory, the 'mode of production' means: |
| A. | the way in which products are made in a factory |
| B. | the average measure of productivity under capitalism |
| C. | the organization of a society's technical and human resources |
| D. | an integral part of the superstructure of a society |
| Answer» C. the organization of a society's technical and human resources | |
| 37. |
Durkheim defined social facts as: |
| A. | ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that are collective and social in origin |
| B. | the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context |
| C. | data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct |
| D. | ideas and theories that have no basis in the external, physical world |
| Answer» A. ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that are collective and social in origin | |
| 38. |
Weber said that all knowledge is 'value-relevant' because: |
| A. | sociologists like to put a value on different theories |
| B. | knowledge refers to people and their values |
| C. | theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values |
| D. | attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable |
| Answer» C. theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values | |
| 39. |
The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows: instrumentally-rational, value-rational, traditional, and... |
| A. | affectual |
| B. | affective |
| C. | effective |
| D. | infected |
| Answer» A. affectual | |
| 40. |
Structural-Functionalists describe society as: |
| A. | a complex network of interaction at a micro-level |
| B. | a source of conflict, inequality, and alienation |
| C. | an unstable structure of social relations |
| D. | anormative framework of roles and institutions |
| Answer» D. anormative framework of roles and institutions | |
| 41. |
The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic Interactionist theory teaches that: |
| A. | theory must be augmented by straightforward, plausible methods |
| B. | we can find true, objective knowledge of the world through our senses |
| C. | knowledge is produced in everyday, practical situations |
| D. | the best social theory was developed in Prague |
| Answer» B. we can find true, objective knowledge of the world through our senses | |
| 42. |
Dahrendorf, Rex, and Habermas focused their attention on: |
| A. | social solidarity and cohesion |
| B. | the interpretive understanding of action |
| C. | women's experiences and gendered knowledge |
| D. | power, domination, and conflict |
| Answer» D. power, domination, and conflict | |
| 43. |
The term 'feminist standpoint' suggests: |
| A. | taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism |
| B. | studying society from the perspective of women |
| C. | the recognition of difference and diversity in women's lives |
| D. | a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge |
| Answer» A. taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism | |
| 44. |
Post-modernist writers have argued that: |
| A. | we live in a world of superficial, fragmented images |
| B. | no theory is better than any other: 'anything goes' |
| C. | society has changed and we need new kinds of theory |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» A. we live in a world of superficial, fragmented images | |
| 45. |
Conflict sociologists analyze society using the: |
| A. | Macro analysis approach |
| B. | Micro analysis approach |
| C. | Interpretive approach |
| D. | Statistical approach |
| Answer» A. Macro analysis approach | |
| 46. |
Conflict sociologists view society as: |
| A. | Stable |
| B. | Chaotic |
| C. | Evolutionary |
| D. | Symbolic |
| Answer» B. Chaotic | |
| 47. |
According to the conflict theory, conflict is created through: |
| A. | Social construction of opposing realities |
| B. | Social problems which create dysfunctions |
| C. | Unreliable social networks |
| D. | Large groups competing over power |
| Answer» D. Large groups competing over power | |
| 48. |
Karl Marx viewed ____________ as the source of social inequality: |
| A. | Communism |
| B. | Socialism |
| C. | Capitalism |
| D. | Feudalism |
| Answer» C. Capitalism | |
| 49. |
When Karl Marx defined the proletariat and the bourgeoisie classes as: |
| A. | Workers and the owners in a capitalist society |
| B. | Socialists and feudalists in different time periods |
| C. | Robots and factory workers in the Industrial Revolution |
| D. | Rural and urban landholders |
| Answer» A. Workers and the owners in a capitalist society | |
| 50. |
Michelle owns a regional manufacturing company. She has a warehouse, nine trucks, and employs 50 people. What are the warehouses and trucks examples of? |
| A. | Means of production |
| B. | Social control |
| C. | Surplus value |
| D. | Bourgeoisie status |
| Answer» A. Means of production | |
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