The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows instrumentally-rational value-rational traditional and____________?
A. affectual
B. affective
C. effective
D. infected
A. affectual
B. affective
C. effective
D. infected
A. ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
B. the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
C. data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
D. ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world
Durkheim defined social facts as___________? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. a theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society
B. the precise scientific study of observable phenomena
C. a theory that posits difficult s and sets out to answer them
D. an unscientific set of laws about social progress
Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. standard accounts of the origins of sociology focus on the industrial and French revolutions giving no weight to the significance of colonialism in shag modern societies
B. the sociological gaze is Eurocentric failing to incorporate the experience of formerly colonized societies
C. sociology has described Western societies as developed or modem in opposition to the notion of non-Western societies as pre-modern traditional inferiors
D. the sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing
A. sexuality
B. discipline
C. discourse
D. all of the these
which of these concepts is addressed in Foucault’s work ? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. only women can write from a feminist perspective
B. other theoretical perspectives have not researched women
C. they emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
D. men and women view the and world in different ways
Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because______________? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. genetic modification of crops
B. volcanic eruptions
C. global warming
D. the threat of nuclear war
Which of the following is not an example of a manufactured risk ? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. ethnomethodology
B. symbolic interactionism
C. feminism
D. phenomenology
Which perspective does not come under the umbrella of interactionism ? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. the problem of class conflict
B. the problem of economic restructuring
C. the problem of social welfare
D. the problem of social order
Talcott Parsons,s structural functionalism attempted to tackle ? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives A. feudalism
B. communism
C. capitalism
D. liberalism
Which of the following is not a mode of production ? Read More »
Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives