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Theory and Perspectives

The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows instrumentally-rational value-rational traditional and____________?

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

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Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives

Durkheim defined social facts as___________?

Durkheim defined social facts as___________?

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

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Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives

Which one of the following statements in not a key charge of postcolonial critiques against mainstream sociology ?

Which one of the following statements in not a key charge of postcolonial critiques against mainstream sociology ?

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

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Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives

Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because______________?

Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because______________?

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

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Sociology Mcqs, Theory and Perspectives