A. Augustus Comte
B. Emily Durkheim
C. Herbert Spencer
D. None of these
Submitted by: Rashid Mehmood
Related Mcqs:
- Positivism is most accurately described as the belief that__________________?
A. social research should highlight the positive aspects of social life
B. knowledge should be produced based on evidence from observations
C. sociologists should make more use of official statistics
D. none of the above - 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 - 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 - What did Auguste Comte mean by positivism in sociology ?
A. sociological research must contribute to a governments social policy
B. sociology should be optimistic about human achievements
C. sociology should make use of statistical evidence
D. sociology should adopt the same methods as the natural sciences - Psychological positivism stresses the key role that _______ plays in the development of conformist of criminal belief systems?
A. pre-natal nutrition
B. hormones
C. genetic abnormalities
D. early childhood
E. adolescence - Arnett proposed an interesting distinction of types of socialization_______________?
A. high and low
B. broad and narrow
C. old and new
D. None of these - In a society with a (n) ___________ the political and religious institutions often act in harmony and mutually reinforce each other,s powers over their relative spheres of influence ?
A. denomination
B. ecclesia
C. cult
D. sect - The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?
A. new social movement theory
B. collective behavior theory
C. social strain theory
D. resource mobilization theory - In a study of styles of grand parenting sociologists Andrew Cherlin and Frank Furstenberg Jr concluded that the most common style was for grandparents to ___________?
A. be actively involved in everyday routine care of their grandchildren and exercise substantial authority over them
B. carry on a “ritualistic”(primarily symbolic) relationship with their grandchildren
C. never see their grandchildren
D. function as “specialists in recreational care-giving” - According to Mead the earliest stage of socialization is called the ___________ stage?
A. play
B. maturation
C. game
D. infancy
E. preparatory
