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Contemporary Social Theories | Set 3

1. To which of the following would the negative consequences of the juggernaut of modernity NOT be attributed?

Correct : D. natural disasters

2. According to Ulrich Beck, __________ are being produced by the sources of wealth in modern society.

Correct : A. risks

3. Beck blames ____________ for becoming the protectors of a global contamination of people and nature.

Correct : D. scientists

4. Which of the following is NOT a component of formal rationality?

Correct : D. adaptability

5. 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.

Correct : A. consumption

6. Structuralism is rooted in the underlying structures governing:

Correct : D. language.

7. Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of parole refers to:

Correct : C. the actual way people use language.

8. The term semiotics refers to the study of:

Correct : D. all sign and symbol systems.

9. Which of the following theorists applied structuralism to anthropology?

Correct : B. Claude Lévi-Strauss

10. Jacques Derrida looked at social institutions and saw:

Correct : B. writing.

11. The term logocentrism refers to:

Correct : C. the search for a universal system of thought that reveals truth.

12. Which of the following thinkers is NOT associated with structuralism?

Correct : D. Jacques Derrida

13. Foucault thought that archaeology was a necessary first step towards:

Correct : A. genealogy of power.

14. Foucault interprets the rise of psychology as a:

Correct : C. Moral enterprise.

15. Foucault considered the gaze as:

Correct : A. A language without words.

16. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault’s instruments of disciplinary power?

Correct : C. trajectories

17. Which of the following terms refers to cultural products?

Correct : C. Postmodernism

18. Which of the following authors is NOT associated with postmodernism?

Correct : A. Frederic Jameson

19. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with ______________ capitalism.

Correct : D. multinational

20. Jameson sees cultural change as a function of changes in:

Correct : B. Economic structure.

21. Which of the following is NOT one of Jameson’s critiques of postmodernism?

Correct : D. There is an increasing reliance on history in postmodernism.

22. Jean Baudrillard attempts to break from using bourgeois categories of analysis by promoting:

Correct : D. Symbolic exchange.

23. Life world is a concept associated with the works of:

Correct : D. Habermas

24. Indexicality is a concept used in the theory of:

Correct : D. Ethnomethodology

25. Who among the following is a symbolic interactionalist ?

Correct : D. G H Mead

26. Frankfurt school is basically related with the___________ perspective

Correct : A. Critical

27. Phenomenology has its origin in _________________

Correct : D. France

28. The theoretical system of Frankfurt school is essentially:

Correct : B. Conflict oriented

29. Who called structural functionalism as overly narrow:

Correct : A. Alexander and Colomy

30. The individual comes to know about himself is:

Correct : A. Role taking

31. The proponent of the concept of Looking glass self is:

Correct : D. C. H. Cooley