A. Enlightenment thinkers/philosophers
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. Globalization
D. Renaissance thinkers/philosophers
E. The rapid expansion of colonialism
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - Which one of the following concepts did Mix weber introduce to the field of sociology ?
A. dramaturgy
B. ideal types
C. functionalism
D. macrosociology - Which one of the following concepts did Max Weber introduce to the field of sociology ?
A. dramaturgy
B. ideal types
C. functionalism
D. macro sociology - Which of the following sociology 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. Karl Marx
C. Emile Durkheim
D. Max Weber - Who became the first ever Professor of Sociology ?
A. George Herbert Mead
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Emile Durkheim
D. Robert Merton - 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 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
