McqMate
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) .
| 201. |
To which of the following would the negative consequences of the juggernaut of modernity NOT be attributed? |
| A. | design flaws |
| B. | operator failure |
| C. | unintended consequences |
| D. | natural disasters |
| Answer» D. natural disasters | |
| 202. |
According to Ulrich Beck, __________ are being produced by the sources of wealth in modern society. |
| A. | risks |
| B. | dysfunctions |
| C. | pathologies |
| D. | dependencies |
| Answer» A. risks | |
| 203. |
Beck blames ____________ for becoming the protectors of a global contamination of people and nature. |
| A. | capitalists |
| B. | politicians |
| C. | consumers |
| D. | scientists |
| Answer» D. scientists | |
| 204. |
Which of the following is NOT a component of formal rationality? |
| A. | efficiency |
| B. | predictability |
| C. | quantifiability |
| D. | adaptability |
| Answer» D. adaptability | |
| 205. |
Means of _____________ are defined as those things that make it possible for people to acquire goods and services and for the same people to be controlled and exploited as consumers. |
| A. | consumption |
| B. | acquisition |
| C. | exploitation |
| D. | production |
| Answer» A. consumption | |
| 206. |
Structuralism is rooted in the underlying structures governing: |
| A. | politics. |
| B. | economics. |
| C. | culture. |
| D. | language. |
| Answer» D. language. | |
| 207. |
Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of parole refers to: |
| A. | sign and symbol systems. |
| B. | what prisoners get for good behavior. |
| C. | the actual way people use language. |
| D. | the rules that govern language. |
| Answer» C. the actual way people use language. | |
| 208. |
The term semiotics refers to the study of: |
| A. | robots that drive. |
| B. | language used on traffic signs. |
| C. | signs in linguistics. |
| D. | all sign and symbol systems. |
| Answer» D. all sign and symbol systems. | |
| 209. |
Which of the following theorists applied structuralism to anthropology? |
| A. | Louis Althusser |
| B. | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| C. | Roland Barthes |
| D. | Maurice Godelier |
| Answer» B. Claude Lévi-Strauss | |
| 210. |
Jacques Derrida looked at social institutions and saw: |
| A. | language. |
| B. | writing. |
| C. | coercion. |
| D. | economics. |
| Answer» B. writing. | |
| 211. |
The term logocentrism refers to: |
| A. | the use of logos to sell products. |
| B. | the underlying rules of language that dictate how it is used. |
| C. | the search for a universal system of thought that reveals truth. |
| D. | the way theatre is controlled and enslaved. |
| Answer» C. the search for a universal system of thought that reveals truth. | |
| 212. |
Which of the following thinkers is NOT associated with structuralism? |
| A. | Ferdinand Saussare |
| B. | Louis Althusser |
| C. | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| D. | Jacques Derrida |
| Answer» D. Jacques Derrida | |
| 213. |
Foucault thought that archaeology was a necessary first step towards: |
| A. | genealogy of power. |
| B. | discourse analysis. |
| C. | clinics and medicine. |
| D. | deconstruction. |
| Answer» A. genealogy of power. | |
| 214. |
Foucault interprets the rise of psychology as a: |
| A. | Scientific endeavour. |
| B. | Humanitarian advance. |
| C. | Moral enterprise. |
| D. | medical advancement. |
| Answer» C. Moral enterprise. | |
| 215. |
Foucault considered the gaze as: |
| A. | A language without words. |
| B. | The precursor to punishment. |
| C. | The genealogy of vision. |
| D. | The birth of the clinic. |
| Answer» A. A language without words. | |
| 216. |
Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault’s instruments of disciplinary power? |
| A. | Hierarchical observation |
| B. | normalizing judgments |
| C. | trajectories |
| D. | examinations |
| Answer» C. trajectories | |
| 217. |
Which of the following terms refers to cultural products? |
| A. | Postmodern social theory |
| B. | post modernity |
| C. | Postmodernism |
| D. | post-postmodernism |
| Answer» C. Postmodernism | |
| 218. |
Which of the following authors is NOT associated with postmodernism? |
| A. | Frederic Jameson |
| B. | Michel Foucault |
| C. | Jean Baudrillard |
| D. | Jean-François Lyotard |
| Answer» A. Frederic Jameson | |
| 219. |
Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with ______________ capitalism. |
| A. | Market |
| B. | monopoly |
| C. | imperialist |
| D. | multinational |
| Answer» D. multinational | |
| 220. |
Jameson sees cultural change as a function of changes in: |
| A. | Language. |
| B. | Economic structure. |
| C. | Surveillance. |
| D. | Space. |
| Answer» B. Economic structure. | |
| 221. |
Which of the following is NOT one of Jameson’s critiques of postmodernism? |
| A. | Postmodernism is superficial. |
| B. | Postmodernism is characterized by a waning of emotion or affect. |
| C. | Postmodern life is fragment |
| D. | There is an increasing reliance on history in postmodernism. |
| Answer» D. There is an increasing reliance on history in postmodernism. | |
| 222. |
Jean Baudrillard attempts to break from using bourgeois categories of analysis by promoting: |
| A. | simulacra. |
| B. | Cathedrals of consumption. |
| C. | The theatre of cruelty |
| D. | Symbolic exchange. |
| Answer» D. Symbolic exchange. | |
| 223. |
Life world is a concept associated with the works of: |
| A. | Coser |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | Weber |
| D. | Habermas |
| Answer» D. Habermas | |
| 224. |
Indexicality is a concept used in the theory of: |
| A. | Phenomenology |
| B. | Structural Functionalism |
| C. | Critical Theory |
| D. | Ethnomethodology |
| Answer» D. Ethnomethodology | |
| 225. |
Who among the following is a symbolic interactionalist ? |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Marx Weber |
| C. | Talcott Parsons |
| D. | G H Mead |
| Answer» D. G H Mead | |
| 226. |
Frankfurt school is basically related with the___________ perspective |
| A. | Critical |
| B. | Conflict |
| C. | Ideological |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Critical | |
| 227. |
Phenomenology has its origin in _________________ |
| A. | Japan |
| B. | India |
| C. | Germany |
| D. | France |
| Answer» D. France | |
| 228. |
The theoretical system of Frankfurt school is essentially: |
| A. | Frankfurt oriented |
| B. | Conflict oriented |
| C. | Structural oriented |
| D. | Interaction oriented |
| Answer» B. Conflict oriented | |
| 229. |
Who called structural functionalism as overly narrow: |
| A. | Alexander and Colomy |
| B. | Colomy and Turner |
| C. | Seidman and Colomy |
| D. | Seidman and Dahrendorf |
| Answer» A. Alexander and Colomy | |
| 230. |
The individual comes to know about himself is: |
| A. | Role taking |
| B. | Role playing |
| C. | Role conflict |
| D. | Role model |
| Answer» A. Role taking | |
| 231. |
The proponent of the concept of Looking glass self is: |
| A. | G H Mead |
| B. | Goffman |
| C. | W. I Thomas |
| D. | C. H. Cooley |
| Answer» D. C. H. Cooley | |
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