The birthplace of sociology is generally considered to be_______________?
A. the United States
B. Canada
C. Europe
D. Australia
The rise of globalization was greatly facilitated by_____________?
The rise of globalization was greatly facilitated by_____________?
A. wealthy aristocrats
B. sixteenth-century population growth
C. industrialization
D. developments in transportation and communication
E. international migration
The term sociological imagination was first coined by_____________?
The term sociological imagination was first coined by_____________?
A. Durkheim
B. Blumer
C. Lemert
D. Berger
E. Mills
The term feminist standpoint, suggests_______________?
The term feminist standpoint, suggests_______________?
A. taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism
B. studying society from the perspective of women
C. the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives
D. a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge
The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic interactionist theory teaches that_______________?
The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic interactionist theory teaches that_______________?
A. theory must be augmented by straightforward plausible methods
B. we can find true objective knowledge of the world through our senses
C. Knowledge is produced in everyday practical situations
D. the best social theory was developed in Prague
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
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
Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________?
Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________?
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
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
which of these concepts is addressed in Foucault’s work ?
which of these concepts is addressed in Foucault’s work ?
A. sexuality
B. discipline
C. discourse
D. all of the these