A. has been to study social interaction for over 500 years.
B. Is the scientific study of social interaction and organization?
C. has little bearing on public policy
D. is most useful when applied to abstract -as opposed to practical matters
Related Mcqs:
- The second stage when people understand society as natural was named________________?
A. Theological
B. Metaphysical
C. Scientific
D. None of these - Contemporary sociology includes______________?
A. evolutionary relativism
B. liberal feminism and explicit examination of women’s social roles and experiences
C. postmodernism feminism and critical theory
D. a combination of biological theory conflict theory and evolutionary theory - In contemporary societies social institutions are_______________?
A. highly specialized interrelated sets of social practices
B. disorganized social relations in a post modem world
C. virtual communities in cyberspace
D. no longer relevant to sociology - When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people’s movement between them, they call this_____________?
A. social stratification
B. social control
C. social conflict
D. social solidarity - Karl Marx,s view of the struggle between social classes inspired the contemporary ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. dramaturgical approach - The term sociology was coined by________________?
A. Max Weber
B. August Comte
C. Emile Durkheim
D. None of these - It is useful to have a diversity of theories in sociology because________________?
A. human behavior is so complicated that no single theory would be adequate
B. sociologists can choose the theory that best fits the data they have collected
C. It removes the need to assess a theory according to the empirical evidence
D. innumerable theories have been developed in the many fields of sociology - In the library Louanne observes a woman sitting at a table by herself A man comes up and sits at the other end of the table the woman frowns and shakes her head no The man gets up and moves to another table Lounne concludes that the woman did not want to share a study table The theoretical perspective Louanne is using is_______________?
A. the conflict perspective
B. the functionalist perspective
C. the interactionist perspective
D. none of the above - Social norms are_____________?
A. creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork
B. the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
C. religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
D. rules and expectation about interaction that regulate social life - Which of the following sociologists 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. Kari Marx
C. Em-ile Durkheim
D. Max Weber
