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: