1. According to Robert Cox, what is critical theory?
Correct : C. Critical theory attempts to challenge the prevailing order by seeking out social processes that could lead to emancipatory change.
2. What are the main concerns of the members of the Frankfurt School?
Correct : D. All of the options given are correct.
3. Justin Rosenberg argues:
Correct : D. All of the options given are correct.
4. Marxists see globalization as:
Correct : B. Part of long-term trends in the development of capitalism.
5. AndrewLinklater:
Correct : D. All of the options given are correct.
6. In much the same way that Marx felt that labor was alienated, _________________ felt that communication was alienated, or distorted.
Correct : C. JurgenHabermas
7. Members of which of the following variants of Marxian theory most strongly
distance themselves from their Marxian roots?
Correct : D. analytical Marxism
8. Members of which of the following variants of neo-Marxian theory are concerned with the “micro-level” foundations of Marxian theory?
Correct : D. critical theory
9. Thinkers who can be clearly identified as sociologists began to appear in the:
Correct : C. 1800s.
10. In his lectures at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo in the 1300s, ____________ devoted considerable attention to social institutions such as politics and the economy.
Correct : A. Ibn-Khaldun
11. In 1789 the French Revolution caused many social thinkers to be disturbed by the resulting _________, and it created a desire to restore ______________.
Correct : D. chaos; order to society
12. Early sociologists wanted to model sociology after the prestigious and influential disciplines of:
Correct : B. physics, biology and chemistry.
13. The ____________ was a period of intellectual development and change characterized by the belief that people could comprehend and control the universe by means of reason and empirical research.
Correct : C. Enlightenment
14. __________ believe in studying social phenomena using the same scientific techniques as those used in the natural sciences.
Correct : B. Positivists
15. According to Auguste Comte, groups, societies, sciences, and individuals all
go through the following three stages:
Correct : C. theological, metaphysical, and positivistic
16. Emile Durkheim believed that ___________ is not a necessary part of the
modern world and that it could be reduced by ____________.
Correct : D. social disorder; social reform reformism.
17. G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy of ___________ emphasized the importance of the mind and mental products rather than the material world.
Correct : C. idealism
18. _______ is the breakdown of the natural interconnection among people and between people and what they produce.
Correct : B. Alienation
19. Weber was interested in the general issue of why institutions in the Western world had grown progressively more ____________ while power barriers seemed to prevent a similar development in the rest of the world.
Correct : A. rational
20. Georg Simmel was best known for his thinking on:
Correct : C. smaller-scale issues like individual action and interaction.
21. According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual
Correct : A. Social facts
22. Durkheim maintained that in order to study social facts, it should be considered as
Correct : B. Things
23. According to Durkheim, the study of the form and structure of societies and its classification based on attributes can be called as
Correct : C. Social morphology
24. In Parsons theory of structural functionalism oriented problems are known as ________________
Correct : A. AGIL
25. Critical theory is associated with the ______________school.
Correct : A. Frankfurt
26. Jefrey C Alexander is a __________
Correct : B. Neo functionalist
27. Definition of Situation is a concept developed by ____________________
Correct : A. W .I Thomas
28. Normative functionalism in the contribution of __________________
Correct : B. Parson
29. Micro functionalism proposed by ________________
Correct : B. Merton
30. Symbolic interactionalism related to ______________
Correct : D. Blumer
31. Dialectical conflict is proposed by ____________
Correct : A. Dahrendorf
32. Among the following who was the exponent of ‘middle range theory’
Correct : B. Robert K Merton
33. Who wrote the book ‘Distinction: a social critique of the judgment of taste ‘?
Correct : A. Pierre Bourdieu
34. Name the sociologist who introduced the concept of ‘double hermeneutics’
Correct : A. Giddens
35. Who wrote the book ‘The constitution of society ‘?
Correct : B. Giddens
36. Name the social theorist who described sociology as a compact sport.
Correct : C. Bourdieu
37. The book ‘the elementary structures of kinship ‘was written by
Correct : A. Levistraus
38. Who initiated the ‘communication turn’ in Frankfurt school.
Correct : B. Habermas
39. Among the following who talked about ‘realistic conflict ‘and ‘non-realistic conflict’
Correct : A. Lewis Coser
40. The concept of ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ was put forward by----------------.
Correct : C. Merton
41. Who wrote the book’ the structure of social action’
Correct : C. Parsons
42. Among the following who argued that ‘mind emerges out of the interaction of individuals
in a social matrix’.
Correct : A. G H Mead
43. Name the social theorist who wrote ‘sociological analysis and variable.
Correct : D. Blumer
44. Who argued that ‘human’s act towards things on the basis of the meanings
they have for them ‘.
Correct : C. Blumer
45. Among the following who is known as the theorist of ideology.
Correct : B. Althuser
46. Name the social theorist who introduced the concepts of ‘contradiction and over determination’.
Correct : A. Althuser
47. Among the following who was associated with ‘Neo-functionalism ‘
Correct : A. Jeffrey C Alexander
48. Among the following who argued that ‘struggle forauthority create conflict’.
Correct : D. Dahrendorf
49. Who introduced the idea of ‘epistemological break?’
Correct : B. Althuser
50. The concept of ‘The third way’ was developed by-----------------.
Correct : B. Giddens
51. Who wrote the book ‘outline of a theory of practice’?
Correct : B. Bourdieu
52. According to _________ structure and action are two sides of the same coin.
Correct : C. Anthony Giddens
53. ‘Duality of structure’ is a phrase that can be attributed to
Correct : B. Anthony Giddens
54. Which of the following are the two aspects of structure identified by Giddens?
Correct : A. Rules and resources
55. Name an eminent proponent of phenomenology
Correct : A. Hussel
56. ‘We should admit that power produces knowledge…that power and knowledge directly imply
one another’. This quote can is attributed to
Correct : D. Michel Foucault
57. According to Foucault, development of discourses are essential to the extension of the
Correct : A. Power of the state
58. The ‘panopticon’ is a prison design proposed by
Correct : C. Jeremy Bentham
59. According to Foucault self-discipline creates
Correct : B. Docile bodies
60. _________is a device used by the dominantclass to exclude the subordinate classes.
Correct : A. High culture
61. Which of the following are a part of symbolic capital?
Correct : D. All of the above
62. Students who have fewer opportunities to succeed in school are likely to have lesser
Correct : C. Cultural capital
63. The immediate environment of the social actor is called
Correct : B. Life-world
64. According to Habermas the salons andcoffee houses of the bigEuropean cities are likely
to be the places where the __________ originated
Correct : A. Public sphere
65. Hermeneutic knowledge focuses on
Correct : B. Understanding
66. Michel Foucault is a
Correct : D. Conflict theorist
67. _______ refers to a setof acquired principles of thought, behaviourand taste thatgenerates
social practicesand is particularly associated with a certainsocial class.
Correct : B. Habitus
68. Habitus may be modified by one’s
Correct : A. Experience
69. The term ‘epistemological break’ was introduced by
Correct : D. Thomas Kuhn
70. Louis Althusser used the idea of _______ to separate the humanistic work of the younger
Karl Marx from the scientific theories of the matureMarx
Correct : B. Epistemological break
71. The terms ‘ideological state apparatuses, repressive stateapparatuses, interpellation, overdetermination’ can be attributed to
Correct : D. Louis Althusser
72. Which of the theorists viewed Modernity as an “unfinished project”?
Correct : A. Jurgen Habermass
73. Which of the theorists of Modernity sees the modern world as a “juggernaut”?
Correct : B. Anthony Giddens
74. Which thinker is considered as a major influence on the development of neo-Marxian theory?
Correct : A. Emile Durkheim
75. 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?
Correct : B. materialist
76. According to some of the theorists of the critical school, domination moved from the economic
to the ______________ sphere.
Correct : D. cultural
77. The critical school offered critiques of which of the following two “industries”?
Correct : C. culture and knowledge
78. For the critical school, modern society was rational, but not:
Correct : C. reasonable.
79. In much the same way that Marx felt that labor was alienated, _________________ felt that
communication was alienated, or distorted.
Correct : C. Jurgen Habermas
80. Members of which of the following variants of Marxian theory most strongly distance
themselves from their Marxian roots?
Correct : D. analytical Marxism
81. Members of which of the following variants of neo-Marxian theory are concerned with the
“micro-level” foundations of Marxian theory?
Correct : D. critical theory
82. For Anthony Giddens, social structure is composed of:
Correct : D. the structuring properties of rules and
83. According to Giddens, intentional actions produce:
Correct : C. unintended consequences.
84. Giddens thinks that social structure can be both:
Correct : B. constraining and enabling.
85. Archer criticizes Giddens for neglecting the __________ of culture and structure.
Correct : D. relative autonomy
86. Pierre Bourdieu refers to his perspective as:
Correct : A. structuralist constructivism.
87. Which of the following reflect(s) objective divisions in the social structure, such as age groups,
genders, and social classes?
Correct : D. habitus
88. According to Bourdieu, the most important of all fields is:
Correct : B. political.
89. Art, education, and religion are examples of:
Correct : D. symbolic capital.
90. Tastes are conditioned by class relationships and _____________ relationships.
Correct : A. cultural
91. 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.
Correct : C. phenomenology
92. According to Habermas, the system is becoming increasingly ___________ by delinguistified
media.
Correct : A. monetized and bureaucratized
93. According to Habermas, the most urgent dilemma of the contemporary world is that the
___________ is being colonized by the ___________.
Correct : C. life-world; system
94. ___________ tend to be involved with micro-macro theory, whereas ____________ tend to
produce agency-structure theory.
Correct : B. Americans; Europeans
95. Agency-structure theory tends to have a(n) ____________ perspective, whereas micro-macrotheory is more likely to be ____________.
Correct : A. historical; static
96. Anthony Giddens has described the modern world as a:
Correct : A. juggernaut.
97. According to Giddens, which of the following institutions does NOT characterize modernity?
Correct : D. collective identities
98. 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?
Correct : C. distanciation
99. ____________ is the “lifting out” of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their
restructuring across indefinite spans of time-space.
Correct : B. Disembedding
100. ____________ means that social practices are constantly examined and reformed in the light of
incoming information about those very practices.