Sociology Mcqs

A. Durkheim
B. Blumer
C. Lemert
D. Berger
E. Mills

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

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

A. affectual
B. affective
C. effective
D. infected

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

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

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

A. sexuality
B. discipline
C. discourse
D. all of the these

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

A. genetic modification of crops
B. volcanic eruptions
C. global warming
D. the threat of nuclear war