A. the hyperreality of media imagery
B. the significance of expert discourses
C. societies use of surveillance and discipline
D. the archaeology of scientific knowledge
Related Mcqs:
- Which of these aspects of organization is most associated with the work of Michel Foucault ?
A. surveillance
B. meritocracy
C. bureaucracy
D. transnational organization - which of these concepts is addressed in Foucault’s work ?
A. sexuality
B. discipline
C. discourse
D. all of the these - According to Foucault carceral organizations________________?
A. emphasized human relations and employee satisfaction
B. increased the amount of power held by managers
C. stripped inmates of their previous identities
D. isolated people and put them under surveillance - Which sociologist writing in 1906 noted that individuals make distinctions between members of their own group (thein-group) and everyone else (the out-group) ?
A. Charles Horton Cooley
B. Emile Durkheim
C. William I. Thomas
D. William Graham Sumner - Amjad must finish writing a report for work that is due the next day His son,s school just called and said the child must be picked up from school because he is sick Amjad,s wife is out of town on business As a result Amjad is experiencing ?
A. role strain
B. role conflict
C. role hypersensitivity
D. role reversal - Which of the following was not a key development leading to the birth of sociology ?
A. Enlightenment thinkers/philosophers
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. Globalization
D. Renaissance thinkers/philosophers
E. The rapid expansion of colonialism - 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 of these key early figures in sociology had an interest in issues of labor and the economy ?
A. Karl Marx
B. Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
C. Karl Marx and Max Weber
D. All three of them - “The division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is the key to stratification in capitalist societies “This statement is consistent with the thinking of which theorist ?
A. Marx
B. Weber
C. Parsons
D. Lincoln - Which of these is not a key factor behind the potential economic catch-up of developing nations according to Willem Buiter ?
A. a young population
B. good healthcare system
C. education
D. careful policy planning
