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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

Related Mcqs:

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Which one of the following concepts did Mix weber introduce to the field of sociology ?

    A. dramaturgy
    B. ideal types
    C. functionalism
    D. macrosociology

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Which pioneer of sociology first directed researchers to the significance of bureaucratic structure ?

    A. Emile Durkheim
    B. Max Weber
    C. Karl Marx
    D. Ferdinand Tonnies

  8. When Comet wrote of sociology as a positive science he meant ?

    A. that it should show people in the best possible light
    B. that it should attempt to appeal to as many people as possible
    C. that it should apply the same methods as physics or chemistry
    D. that it should progress by positing new concepts and theories

  9. Erving Goffman made a distinctive contribution to sociology by popularizing a particular type of interactionist method known as____________?

    A. macrosociology
    B. the dramaturgical approach
    C. Verstehen
    D. None of these

  10. The birthplace of sociology is generally considered to be_______________?

    A. the United States
    B. Canada
    C. Europe
    D. Australia

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