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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) .
| 101. |
According to Giddens, intentional actions produce: |
| A. | risk. |
| B. | structure. |
| C. | unintended consequences. |
| D. | social systems. |
| Answer» C. unintended consequences. | |
| 102. |
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. | |
| 103. |
_____________ is the process by which complex interchanges lead not only to changes in the structure of the system but also to structural elaboration. |
| A. | Morphostasis |
| B. | Metamorphosis |
| C. | Morphogenesis |
| D. | Metagenesis |
| Answer» C. Morphogenesis | |
| 104. |
Archer criticizes Giddens for neglecting the __________ of culture and structure. |
| A. | interrelations |
| B. | duality |
| C. | mutual constitution |
| D. | relative autonomy |
| Answer» D. relative autonomy | |
| 105. |
Pierre Bourdieu refers to his perspective as: |
| A. | structuralist constructivism. |
| B. | post-constructivism. |
| C. | genetic capitalism. |
| D. | field theory. |
| Answer» A. structuralist constructivism. | |
| 106. |
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 | |
| 107. |
According to Bourdieu, the most important of all fields is: |
| A. | economic. |
| B. | political. |
| C. | cultural. |
| D. | social. |
| Answer» B. political. | |
| 108. |
Art, education, and religion are examples of: |
| A. | tastes. |
| B. | fields. |
| C. | distinctions. |
| D. | symbolic capital. |
| Answer» D. symbolic capital. | |
| 109. |
Tastes are conditioned by class relationships and _____________ relationships. |
| A. | cultural |
| B. | political |
| C. | social |
| D. | exchange |
| Answer» A. cultural | |
| 110. |
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 | |
| 111. |
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 | |
| 112. |
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 | |
| 113. |
___________ 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 | |
| 114. |
Agency-structure theory tends to have a(n) ____________ perspective, whereas micro-macro-theory is more likely to be ____________. |
| A. | historical; static |
| B. | static; historical |
| C. | hierarchical; static |
| D. | static; hierarchical |
| Answer» A. historical; static | |
| 115. |
Who among the following coined the term ‘symbolic interactionism’? |
| A. | Herbert Blumer |
| B. | Sigmund Freud |
| C. | H Cooley |
| D. | George Herbert Mead |
| Answer» A. Herbert Blumer | |
| 116. |
The dramaturgical model for the analysis of social interaction was developed by |
| A. | Erving Goffman |
| B. | Sigmund Freud |
| C. | H Cooley |
| D. | George Herbert Mead |
| Answer» A. Erving Goffman | |
| 117. |
One of the major concept in social darwinism |
| A. | Struggle for existence |
| B. | Survival of the fittest |
| C. | Organic analogy |
| D. | Natural selection |
| Answer» B. Survival of the fittest | |
| 118. |
Who postulated the theory of social Darwinism? |
| A. | Herbert Spencer |
| B. | Saint – Simon |
| C. | Auguste Comte |
| D. | Karl Marx |
| Answer» A. Herbert Spencer | |
| 119. |
Anthony Giddens has described the modern world as a: |
| A. | juggernaut. |
| B. | plutocracy. |
| C. | demagogue. |
| D. | barbarian. |
| Answer» A. juggernaut. | |
| 120. |
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 | |
| 121. |
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 | |
| 122. |
____________ 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 | |
| 123. |
____________ 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 | |
| 124. |
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 | |
| 125. |
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 | |
| 126. |
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 | |
| 127. |
Which of the following is NOT a component of formal rationality? |
| A. | efficiency |
| B. | predictability |
| C. | quantifiability |
| D. | adaptability |
| Answer» D. adaptability | |
| 128. |
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 | |
| 129. |
Structuralism is rooted in the underlying structures governing: |
| A. | politics. |
| B. | economics. |
| C. | culture. |
| D. | language. |
| Answer» D. language. | |
| 130. |
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. | |
| 131. |
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. | |
| 132. |
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 | |
| 133. |
Jacques Derrida looked at social institutions and saw: |
| A. | language. |
| B. | writing. |
| C. | coercion. |
| D. | economics. |
| Answer» B. writing. | |
| 134. |
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. | |
| 135. |
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 | |
| 136. |
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. | |
| 137. |
Foucault interprets the rise of psychology as a: |
| A. | scientific endeavor. |
| B. | humanitarian advance. |
| C. | moral enterprise. |
| D. | medical advancement. |
| Answer» C. moral enterprise. | |
| 138. |
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. | |
| 139. |
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 | |
| 140. |
Which of the following terms refers to cultural products? |
| A. | postmodern social theory |
| B. | postmodernity |
| C. | postmodernism |
| D. | post-postmodernism |
| Answer» C. postmodernism | |
| 141. |
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 | |
| 142. |
Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with ______________ capitalism. |
| A. | market |
| B. | monopoly |
| C. | imperialist |
| D. | multinational |
| Answer» D. multinational | |
| 143. |
Jameson sees cultural change as a function of changes in: |
| A. | language. |
| B. | economic structure. |
| C. | surveillance. |
| D. | space. |
| Answer» B. economic structure. | |
| 144. |
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 fragmented. |
| D. | There is an increasing reliance on history in postmodernism |
| Answer» D. There is an increasing reliance on history in postmodernism | |
| 145. |
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. | |
| 146. |
Life world is a concept associated with the works of: |
| A. | Coser |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | Weber |
| D. | Habermas |
| Answer» D. Habermas | |
| 147. |
Indexicality is a concept used in the theory of: |
| A. | Phenomenology |
| B. | Structural Functionalism |
| C. | Critical Theory |
| D. | Ethnomethodology |
| Answer» D. Ethnomethodology | |
| 148. |
Ralf Dahrendorf is well known for his contributions of: |
| A. | Conflict Theory |
| B. | Critical Theory |
| C. | Functionalism |
| D. | Ethnomethodology |
| Answer» A. Conflict Theory | |
| 149. |
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 | |
| 150. |
According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual |
| A. | Social facts |
| B. | Social solidarity |
| C. | Social justice |
| D. | Social sanction |
| Answer» A. Social facts | |
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