A. predicting likely weather patterns in the future
B. understanding how human societies put pressure on the environment
C. understanding how environmental problems are distributed
D. evaluating policies for tackling environmental problems
Related Mcqs:
- Who coined the term sociology and is generally considered to be the founder of sociology ?
A. Karl Marx
B. Auguste Comte
C. Max Weber
D. Emile Durkheim - Which pioneer of sociology first directed researchers to the significance of bureaucratic structure ?
A. Emile Durkheim
B. Max Weber
C. Karl Marx
D. Ferdinand Tonnies - The term “Sociology” was first coined by____________?
A. Karl Marx
B. Max Weber
C. August Comte
D. None of these - Erving Goffman made a distinctive contribution to sociology by popularizing a particular type of interactionist method known as____________?
A. macrosociology
B. the dramaturgical approach
C. Verstehen
D. None of these - 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 shaping 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 - Pure Sociology is a search for knowledge without primary concern for its______________?
A. Basic understanding
B. Practical use
C. Applied use
D. None of these - When in sociology we speak of researchers using controls we mean_________________?
A. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis
B. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others
C. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible
D. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process - Sociology differs from common sense in that_______________?
A. it focuses on the researchers own experiences
B. it makes little distinction between the way the world is and the way it ought to be
C. its knowledge is accumulated from many different research contexts
D. it is subjective and biased - Which one of the following concepts did Max Weber introduce to the field of sociology ?
A. dramaturgy
B. ideal types
C. functionalism
D. macro sociology - Which of the following sociology never wrote a book and about whose thoughts most of our knowledge is presented in an edited volume of his lectures published by his students after his death ?
A. George Herbert Mead
B. Karl Marx
C. Emile Durkheim
D. Max Weber
