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

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1. 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

2. Paul du Gay’s (2000) In Praise of Bureaucracy makes two important points in defense of bureaucratic forms of organization Which two points are they? A bureaucratic ethos ?

   A. is compatible with private sector values and includes impartial and equal treatment for all
   B. ensures administrative responsibility for the public interest and includes impartial and equal treatment for all
   C. ensures that politicians goals can be met even against opposition and ensures administrative responsibility for the public interest
   D. is compatible with private sector values and ensures that politicians goals can be met even against opposition

3. 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

4. When in sociology we speak of researchers using controls, we mean_______________?

   A. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis
   B. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others
   C. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible
   D. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process

5. When in sociology we speak of researchers using controls we mean_________________?

   A. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis
   B. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others
   C. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible
   D. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process

6. The president of the United States need not be a good typist a surgeon need not be able to fill a cavity This is because of the bureaucratic characteristic of___________?

   A. division of labor
   B. impersonality
   C. employment based on technical qualifications
   D. written rules and regulations

7. An important aspect of labelling theory is the recognition that some people or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others This view recalls the emphasis placed on the social significance of power by the______________?

   A. functionalist perspective
   B. conflict perspective
   C. interactionist perspective
   D. anomie theory of deviance

8. 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

9. 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

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

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