A. George Herbert Mead
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Emile Durkheim
D. Robert Merton
Related Mcqs:
- It is the fourth week of the semester and your class has decided that your sociology instructor Rashid Mukhtar is excellent! Professor Rashid Mukhtar is a disabled middle-aged male. For students in this class Professor Rashid Mukhtars master status is_____________?
A. excellent instructor
B. disabled
C. middle-aged
D. male - 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 - To compliment your professor for delivering a particularly inspiring lecture would be to comment on his/her ?
A. role modelling
B. ascribed status
C. status conception
D. role performance - When Comet wrote of sociology as a positive science he meant ?
A. that it should show people in the best possible light
B. that it should attempt to appeal to as many people as possible
C. that it should apply the same methods as physics or chemistry
D. that it should progress by positing new concepts and theories - The fourth major perspective in sociology is ___________________________ theory.
A. political economy
B. symbolic interactionist
C. conflict
D. feminist
E. functionalist - Which sociology perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not function if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labelling theory - 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 world in different ways - 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 - 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 - Which theoretical perspective in sociology emphasizes the inter-dependence of component parts of society ?
A. Structural Functionalism
B. Feminism
C. Conflict
D. Staples
E. Symbolic Interaction ism
