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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) .
| 151. |
Who wrote the book ‘outline of a theory of practice’? |
| A. | Giddens |
| B. | Bourdieu |
| C. | Blumer |
| D. | ) Parsons |
| Answer» B. Bourdieu | |
| 152. |
According to _________ structure and action are two sides of the same coin. |
| A. | Antonio Gramsci |
| B. | Jean-Francois Lyotard |
| C. | Anthony Giddens |
| D. | Ralf Dahrendorf |
| Answer» C. Anthony Giddens | |
| 153. |
‘Duality of structure’ is a phrase that can be attributed to |
| A. | George Ritzer |
| B. | Anthony Giddens |
| C. | Habermas |
| D. | Michel Foucault |
| Answer» B. Anthony Giddens | |
| 154. |
Which of the following are the two aspects of structure identified by Giddens? |
| A. | Rules and resources |
| B. | Rules and representation |
| C. | Rules and repetition |
| D. | Rules and relations |
| Answer» A. Rules and resources | |
| 155. |
Name an eminent proponent of phenomenology |
| A. | Hussel |
| B. | Mead |
| C. | Garfunkel |
| D. | Blumer |
| Answer» A. Hussel | |
| 156. |
‘We should admit that power produces knowledge…that power and knowledge directly imply one another’. This quote can is attributed to |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Max Weber |
| C. | Althusser |
| D. | Michel Foucault |
| Answer» D. Michel Foucault | |
| 157. |
According to Foucault, development of discourses are essential to the extension of the |
| A. | Power of the state |
| B. | Power of religion |
| C. | Power of disciplines |
| D. | Power of the individual |
| Answer» A. Power of the state | |
| 158. |
The ‘panopticon’ is a prison design proposed by |
| A. | Michel Foucault |
| B. | Althusser |
| C. | Jeremy Bentham |
| D. | Antonio Gramsci |
| Answer» C. Jeremy Bentham | |
| 159. |
According to Foucault self-discipline creates |
| A. | Madness |
| B. | Docile bodies |
| C. | Resistance |
| D. | Experts |
| Answer» B. Docile bodies | |
| 160. |
_________is a device used by the dominantclass to exclude the subordinate classes. |
| A. | High culture |
| B. | Mass culture |
| C. | Low culture |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» A. High culture | |
| 161. |
Which of the following are a part of symbolic capital? |
| A. | Goodwill |
| B. | Trust |
| C. | Integrity |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |
| 162. |
Students who have fewer opportunities to succeed in school are likely to have lesser |
| A. | Economic capital |
| B. | Symbolic capital |
| C. | Cultural capital |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Cultural capital | |
| 163. |
The immediate environment of the social actor is called |
| A. | Biosphere |
| B. | Life-world |
| C. | Society |
| D. | Social-world |
| Answer» B. Life-world | |
| 164. |
According to Habermas the salons andcoffee houses of the bigEuropean cities are likely to be the places where the __________ originated |
| A. | Public sphere |
| B. | Mass media |
| C. | Democracy |
| D. | Tabloids |
| Answer» A. Public sphere | |
| 165. |
Hermeneutic knowledge focuses on |
| A. | Technology |
| B. | Understanding |
| C. | Science |
| D. | Progess |
| Answer» B. Understanding | |
| 166. |
Michel Foucault is a |
| A. | Functionalist theorist |
| B. | Symbolic interactionist |
| C. | Feminist |
| D. | Conflict theorist |
| Answer» D. Conflict theorist | |
| 167. |
_______ refers to a setof acquired principles of thought, behaviourand taste thatgenerates social practicesand is particularly associated with a certainsocial class. |
| A. | Cultural capital |
| B. | Habitus |
| C. | Interpellation |
| D. | Life world |
| Answer» B. Habitus | |
| 168. |
Habitus may be modified by one’s |
| A. | Experience |
| B. | Language |
| C. | Culture |
| D. | Knowledge |
| Answer» A. Experience | |
| 169. |
The term ‘epistemological break’ was introduced by |
| A. | Louis Althusser |
| B. | Michel Foucault |
| C. | David Miliband |
| D. | Thomas Kuhn |
| Answer» D. Thomas Kuhn | |
| 170. |
Louis Althusser used the idea of _______ to separate the humanistic work of the younger Karl Marx from the scientific theories of the matureMarx |
| A. | Episteme break |
| B. | Epistemological break |
| C. | Neo-Marxism |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Epistemological break | |
| 171. |
The terms ‘ideological state apparatuses, repressive stateapparatuses, interpellation, overdetermination’ can be attributed to |
| A. | Anthony Giddens |
| B. | Michel Foucault |
| C. | Habermas |
| D. | Louis Althusser |
| Answer» D. Louis Althusser | |
| 172. |
Which of the theorists viewed Modernity as an “unfinished project”? |
| A. | Jurgen Habermass |
| B. | Jaffrey Alexander |
| C. | James Coleman |
| D. | Jean Baudrilliard |
| Answer» A. Jurgen Habermass | |
| 173. |
Which of the theorists of Modernity sees the modern world as a “juggernaut”? |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Anthony Giddens |
| C. | Jurgen Habermass |
| D. | James Coleman |
| Answer» B. Anthony Giddens | |
| 174. |
Which thinker is considered as a major influence on the development of neo-Marxian theory? |
| A. | Emile Durkheim |
| B. | Max Weber |
| C. | Sigmund Freud |
| D. | Michel Foucault |
| Answer» A. Emile Durkheim | |
| 175. |
Unlike the critical school and the Hegelian Marxists, work in both Marxian-influenced economic sociology and historical sociology focused on which of the following dimensions of Marx’s work? |
| A. | cognitive |
| B. | materialist |
| C. | ideational |
| D. | spatial |
| Answer» B. materialist | |
| 176. |
According to some of the theorists of the critical school, domination moved from the economic to the ______________ sphere. |
| A. | political |
| B. | spatial |
| C. | ecological |
| D. | cultural |
| Answer» D. cultural | |
| 177. |
The critical school offered critiques of which of the following two “industries”? |
| A. | culture and manufacturing |
| B. | knowledge and manufacturing |
| C. | culture and knowledge |
| D. | knowledge and communication |
| Answer» C. culture and knowledge | |
| 178. |
For the critical school, modern society was rational, but not: |
| A. | productive. |
| B. | cultured. |
| C. | reasonable. |
| D. | predictable. |
| Answer» C. reasonable. | |
| 179. |
In much the same way that Marx felt that labor was alienated, _________________ felt that communication was alienated, or distorted. |
| A. | David Harvey |
| B. | Immanuel Wallerstein |
| C. | Jurgen Habermas |
| D. | John Roemer |
| Answer» C. Jurgen Habermas | |
| 180. |
Members of which of the following variants of Marxian theory most strongly distance themselves from their Marxian roots? |
| A. | the critical school |
| B. | Hegelian Marxism |
| C. | historical Marxism |
| D. | analytical Marxism |
| Answer» D. analytical Marxism | |
| 181. |
Members of which of the following variants of neo-Marxian theory are concerned with the “micro-level” foundations of Marxian theory? |
| A. | historical Marxism |
| B. | analytical Marxism |
| C. | Hegelian Marxism |
| D. | critical theory |
| Answer» D. critical theory | |
| 182. |
For Anthony Giddens, social structure is composed of: |
| A. | the objective positions within a field. |
| B. | networks of exchange relations. |
| C. | systems of oppression and domination. |
| D. | the structuring properties of rules and |
| Answer» D. the structuring properties of rules and | |
| 183. |
According to Giddens, intentional actions produce: |
| A. | risk. |
| B. | structure. |
| C. | unintended consequences. |
| D. | social systems. |
| Answer» C. unintended consequences. | |
| 184. |
Giddens thinks that social structure can be both: |
| A. | dominating and oppressive. |
| B. | constraining and enabling. |
| C. | stable and unstable. |
| D. | recursive and practical. |
| Answer» B. constraining and enabling. | |
| 185. |
Archer criticizes Giddens for neglecting the __________ of culture and structure. |
| A. | interrelations |
| B. | duality |
| C. | mutual constitution |
| D. | relative autonomy |
| Answer» D. relative autonomy | |
| 186. |
Pierre Bourdieu refers to his perspective as: |
| A. | structuralist constructivism. |
| B. | post-constructivism. |
| C. | genetic capitalism. |
| D. | field theory. |
| Answer» A. structuralist constructivism. | |
| 187. |
Which of the following reflect(s) objective divisions in the social structure, such as age groups, genders, and social classes? |
| A. | exchange networks |
| B. | practice |
| C. | fields |
| D. | habitus |
| Answer» D. habitus | |
| 188. |
According to Bourdieu, the most important of all fields is: |
| A. | economic. |
| B. | political. |
| C. | cultural. |
| D. | social. |
| Answer» B. political. | |
| 189. |
Art, education, and religion are examples of: |
| A. | tastes. |
| B. | fields. |
| C. | distinctions. |
| D. | symbolic capital. |
| Answer» D. symbolic capital. | |
| 190. |
Tastes are conditioned by class relationships and _____________ relationships. |
| A. | cultural |
| B. | political |
| C. | social |
| D. | exchange |
| Answer» A. cultural | |
| 191. |
Drawing on ______________, the idea of the life-world involves a range of unspoken presuppositions about mutual understandings that must exist for communication to take place. |
| A. | structural-functionalism |
| B. | cybernetics |
| C. | phenomenology |
| D. | ethnography |
| Answer» C. phenomenology | |
| 192. |
According to Habermas, the system is becoming increasingly ___________ by delinguistified media. |
| A. | monetized and bureaucratized |
| B. | mediated and controlled |
| C. | practical and discursive |
| D. | democratized and equalized |
| Answer» A. monetized and bureaucratized | |
| 193. |
According to Habermas, the most urgent dilemma of the contemporary world is that the ___________ is being colonized by the ___________. |
| A. | system; life-world |
| B. | habitus; field |
| C. | life-world; system |
| D. | field; habitus |
| Answer» C. life-world; system | |
| 194. |
___________ tend to be involved with micro-macro theory, whereas ____________ tend to produce agency-structure theory. |
| A. | Europeans; Americans |
| B. | Americans; Europeans |
| C. | Sociologists; Anthropologists |
| D. | Anthropologists; Sociologists |
| Answer» B. Americans; Europeans | |
| 195. |
Agency-structure theory tends to have a(n) ____________ perspective, whereas micro-macrotheory is more likely to be ____________. |
| A. | historical; static |
| B. | static; historical |
| C. | hierarchical; static |
| D. | static; hierarchical |
| Answer» A. historical; static | |
| 196. |
Anthony Giddens has described the modern world as a: |
| A. | juggernaut. |
| B. | plutocracy. |
| C. | demagogue. |
| D. | barbarian. |
| Answer» A. juggernaut. | |
| 197. |
According to Giddens, which of the following institutions does NOT characterize modernity? |
| A. | capitalism |
| B. | industrialism |
| C. | surveillance capacities |
| D. | collective identities |
| Answer» D. collective identities | |
| 198. |
Which of the following is the term that Giddens uses to describe the prevalence in modernity of relationships with those who are physically absent and increasingly distant? |
| A. | disembedding |
| B. | reflexivity |
| C. | distanciation |
| D. | radicalization |
| Answer» C. distanciation | |
| 199. |
____________ is the “lifting out” of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their restructuring across indefinite spans of time-space. |
| A. | Distanciation |
| B. | Disembedding |
| C. | Reflexivity |
| D. | Radicalization |
| Answer» B. Disembedding | |
| 200. |
____________ means that social practices are constantly examined and reformed in the light of incoming information about those very practices. |
| A. | Disembedding |
| B. | Distanciation |
| C. | Reflexivity |
| D. | Radicalization |
| Answer» C. Reflexivity | |
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