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
Theory and Perspectives
According to Durkheim stronger social ties and religious affiliation______________?
A. Increase the suicide rates
B. Decrease them
C. Have no effect upon them
D. None of these
Which sociological perspective views race from the macro level and sees the economic structure as a central factor in the exploitation of minority groups ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labelling theory
Which of the following theorists rejects the notion of essential categories of male and female through her discussion of the performative aspect of gender ?
A. Joan Acker
B. Judith Butler
C. Helene Cixous
D. Simone de Beauvoir
The writings of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim are examples of___________?
A. cyclical theory
B. unilinear theory
C. multilinear theory
D. conflict theory
Feminism is often criticized on the grounds that_____________?
A. it doesn’t pay attention to male victims
B. it lacks objectivity
C. it is too extreme
D. it is not testable
E. it is not really a theory
Which sociological theory emphasizes the meanings that people attach to various aspects of reality ?
A. Symbolic Interactionism
B. Feminism
C. Conflict
D. Radical
E. Structural Functionalism
Sociologist Alvin Goldner sees Erving Goffman’s work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo especially social class inequalities Gouldner,s critique is associated with the_____________?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. psychoanalytic perspective
Which perspective does not come under the umbrella of interactionism ?
A. ethnomethodology
B. symbolic interactionism
C. feminism
D. phenomenology
Structural-Functionalists describe society as_____________?
A. a complex network of interaction at a micro-level
B. a source of conflict inequality and alienation
C. an unstable structure of social relations
D. a normative framework of roles and institutions
