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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
In studying the strategies that students employ to create appearances after grades have awarded sociologists Daniel Albas and Cheryl Albas drew upon the concept of impression managements developed by______________?
A. George Herbert Mead
B. Charles Horton Cooley
C. Erving Goffman
D. Jean Piaget
Post-modernist writers have argued that____________?
A. we live in a world of superficial fragmented images
B. no theory is better than any other anything goes
C. society has changed, and we need new kinds of theory
D. all of the above
Who became the first ever Professor of Sociology ?
A. George Herbert Mead
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Emile Durkheim
D. Robert Merton
One of the Basic Conflicts, in conflict theory is_____________?
A. conflict between countries
B. conflict between individuals
C. Class conflict
D. None of these
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
According to Weber rationalization meant that_______________?
A. there are no absolutes concerning social life
B. all though would eventually lead to justifying human action
C. early philosophers were too concerned with creating a utopian society
D. sociologists should be primarily concerned with solving problems
E. humans would eventually seek out the most efficient means to accomplish a particular task
Durkheim defined social facts as___________?
A. ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
B. the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
C. data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
D. ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world
Which of the following is not a characteristic of ideology according to the critical conception of ideology ?
A. neutral
B. misleading
C. illusory
D. distorting
Which sociology perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not function if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labelling theory
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