1. According to Giddens, intentional actions produce:
Correct : C. unintended consequences.
2. Giddens thinks that social structure can be both:
Correct : B. constraining and enabling.
3. _____________ is the process by which complex interchanges lead not only to changes in the structure of the system but also to structural elaboration.
Correct : C. Morphogenesis
4. Archer criticizes Giddens for neglecting the __________ of culture and
structure.
Correct : D. relative autonomy
5. Pierre Bourdieu refers to his perspective as:
Correct : A. structuralist constructivism.
6. Which of the following reflect(s) objective divisions in the social structure, such as age groups, genders, and social classes?
Correct : D. habitus
7. According to Bourdieu, the most important of all fields is:
Correct : B. political.
8. Art, education, and religion are examples of:
Correct : D. symbolic capital.
9. Tastes are conditioned by class relationships and _____________ relationships.
Correct : A. cultural
10. 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
11. According to Habermas, the system is becoming increasingly ___________ by
delinguistified media.
Correct : A. monetized and bureaucratized
12. According to Habermas, the most urgent dilemma of the contemporary world
is that the ___________ is being colonized by the ___________.
Correct : C. life-world; system
13. ___________ tend to be involved with micro-macro theory, whereas ____________ tend to produce agency-structure theory.
Correct : B. Americans; Europeans
14. Agency-structure theory tends to have a(n) ____________ perspective, whereas
micro-macro-theory is more likely to be ____________.
Correct : A. historical; static
15. Who among the following coined the term ‘symbolic interactionism’?
Correct : A. Herbert Blumer
16. The dramaturgical model for the analysis of social interaction was developed by
Correct : A. Erving Goffman
17. One of the major concept in social darwinism
Correct : B. Survival of the fittest
18. Who postulated the theory of social Darwinism?
Correct : A. Herbert Spencer
19. Anthony Giddens has described the modern world as a:
Correct : A. juggernaut.
20. According to Giddens, which of the following institutions does NOT
characterize modernity?
Correct : D. collective identities
21. 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
22. ____________ is the “lifting out” of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their restructuring across indefinite spans of time-space.
Correct : B. Disembedding
23. ____________ means that social practices are constantly examined and reformed in the light of incoming information about those very practices.
Correct : C. Reflexivity
24. To which of the following would the negative consequences of the juggernaut
of modernity NOT be attributed?
Correct : D. natural disasters
25. According to Ulrich Beck, __________ are being produced by the sources of wealth in modern society.
Correct : A. risks
26. Beck blames ____________ for becoming the protectors of a global
contamination of people and nature.
Correct : D. scientists
27. Which of the following is NOT a component of formal rationality?
Correct : D. adaptability
28. 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
29. Structuralism is rooted in the underlying structures governing:
Correct : D. language.
30. Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of parole refers to:
Correct : C. the actual way people use language.
31. The term semiotics refers to the study of:
Correct : D. all sign and symbol systems.
32. Which of the following theorists applied structuralism to anthropology?
Correct : B. Claude Lévi-Strauss
33. Jacques Derrida looked at social institutions and saw:
Correct : B. writing.
34. The term logocentrism refers to:
Correct : C. the search for a universal system of thought that reveals truth.
35. Which of the following thinkers is NOT associated with structuralism?
Correct : D. Jacques Derrida
36. Foucault thought that archaeology was a necessary first step towards:
Correct : A. genealogy of power.
37. Foucault interprets the rise of psychology as a:
Correct : C. moral enterprise.
38. Foucault considered the gaze as:
Correct : A. a language without words.
39. Which of the following is NOT one of Foucault’s instruments of disciplinary
power?
Correct : C. trajectories
40. Which of the following terms refers to cultural products?
Correct : C. postmodernism
41. Which of the following authors is NOT associated with postmodernism?
Correct : A. Frederic Jameson
42. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with ______________
capitalism.
Correct : D. multinational
43. Jameson sees cultural change as a function of changes in:
Correct : B. economic structure.
44. Which of the following is NOT one of Jameson’s critiques of postmodernism?
Correct : D. There is an increasing reliance on history in postmodernism
45. Jean Baudrillard attempts to break from using bourgeois categories of analysis by promoting:
Correct : D. symbolic exchange.
46. Life world is a concept associated with the works of:
Correct : D. Habermas
47. Indexicality is a concept used in the theory of:
Correct : D. Ethnomethodology
48. Ralf Dahrendorf is well known for his contributions of:
Correct : A. Conflict Theory
49. Who among the following is a symbolic interactionalist ?
Correct : D. G H Mead
50. According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual
Correct : A. Social facts
51. Durkheim maintained that in order to study social facts, it should be
considered as
Correct : B. Things
52. 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
53. In Parsons theory of structural functionalism oriented problems are known as ________________
Correct : A. AGIL
54. Critical theory is associated with the ______________school.
Correct : A. Frankfurt
55. Jefrey C Alexander is a __________
Correct : B. Neo functionalist
56. Definition of Situation is a concept developed by ____________________
Correct : A. W .I Thomas
57. Normative functionalism in the contribution of __________________
Correct : B. Parson
58. Micro functionalism proposed by ________________
Correct : B. Merton
59. Symbolic interactionalism related to ______________
Correct : D. Blumer
60. Dialectical conflict is proposed by ____________
Correct : A. Dahrendorf
61. Frankfurt school is basically related with the___________ perspective
Correct : A. Critical
62. Phenomenology has its origin in _________________
Correct : D. France
63. Conflict functionalism is a contribution of _______________
Correct : A. Coser
64. The theoretical system of Frankfurt school is essentially:
Correct : B. Conflict oriented
65. Who called structural functionalism as overly narrow:
Correct : A. Alexander and Colomy
66. The individual comes to know about himself is:
Correct : A. Role taking
67. The proponent of the concept of Looking glass self is:
Correct : D. C. H. Cooley
68. Self is a product of _______________
Correct : A. Society
69. ------ posits the idea that every economic order grows to a state of maximum efficiency, while at the same time developing internal contradictions/ weaknesses that contribute to its decay
Correct : B. Dialectical materialism
70. According to Marx, anything in the external world that is used to produce material needs and maintain existence is termed as
Correct : D. Means of production
71. In Marx’s view, the factor that binds one class to another is
Correct : D. Relations of production
72. The capacity for thought is shaped by ________
Correct : B. Self
73. ______________is the process by which people offer accounts in order to make
sense of the world
Correct : B. Accounting
74. Neo functionalism is a scientific study about ____________
Correct : A. Society
75. According to parsons __________ is the mechanism that bridges institutionalization and internalization
Correct : A. Accucultuation
76. Name an eminent proponent of phenomenology
Correct : A. Hussel
77. Who is the author of’ The structure of Social Action’?
Correct : A. Parson
78. For parson, a society is in a state of ____________
Correct : A. Equilibrium
79. Jeffry Alexander contributed ___________________
Correct : D. Neo-functionalism
80. The historical materialism is the contribution of ________________
Correct : B. Karl Marx
81. ______________ investigates the systematic bracketing of all existing
assumption regarding the external world
Correct : D. Phenomenology
82. Marx called the distinctive method for the analysis of the historical
development of society as
Correct : C. Historical materialism
83. ---- had a dominant intellectual influence on Karl Marx
Correct : B. Hegel
84. According to Karl Marx the present state will
Correct : B. Will wither away
85. Marx’s focus on real, existing contradictions led to a particular method for studying social phenomena called
Correct : A. Dialectical method
86. The theoretical foundation of Marxism is known as
Correct : A. Dialectical materialism
87. According to Karl Marx, the history of all hitherto existing society is the
history of
Correct : C. Class struggles
88. The mode of production existed in primitive communities in which ownership
of land was communal is known as
Correct : D. Asiatic mode of production
89. The mode of production characterised by the emergence of private property is ---
Correct : A. Ancient mode of production
90. The relationship between those who own the means of production (the capitalists or bourgeoisie) and those who do not (the workers or the proletariat) is called
Correct : B. Relations of production
91. According to Marx, history evolves through the interaction between
Correct : C. Mode of production and relations of production
92. The system in which the capitalists own the means of production is
Correct : B. Capitalism
93. ‘Goods are produced for sale rather than own use’ is a remarkable
characteristic of
Correct : B. Capitalist societies
94. The concept of alienation is developed by
Correct : A. Karl Marx
95. The division of class in a capitalist society is based on
Correct : A. The ownership of property
96. The single most fundamental fact of the materialist theory of history is
Correct : B. The ownership over the means of production
97. In Marx’s view, the forces of production along with the relations of production
define ---
Correct : A. Mode of production
98. In an economic system, the ------------ has the ability to determine the system
of social relations arising from it
Correct : A. Mode of production
99. The mode of production that encompasses a rudimentary system of production in which people live together principally by hunting and gathering was
Correct : D. Asiatic mode of production
100. Of the four types of mode of production identified by Karl Marx, which one had a communal ownership over the property with no system of class relations?