Sociological Theory Final Exam Practice
SOC3000 Final Exam Lisa M. Kruse Sociological Theory WMU
- 1.The progress of Sociological knowledge has gone through three phases: Theological, Theoretical and Empirical
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.What are the two main ideas of the Enlightenment?
- 3.Which theorist is most closely linked to Positivism?
- A.
George Herbert Mead
- B.
August Comte
- C.
Karl Marx
- D.
Harriet Martineau
- 4.According to Comte, what was the purpose of Sociology? What were we to study?
- A.
Reorganizing society after the French Revolution destroyed democracy
- B.
Study the progress of new democracy
- C.
Observe society's laws and rights through Empiricism
- D.
All of the above
- 5.What is the function of theory? Check all that are correct.
- A.
To prove things to be true
- B.
Explain phenomena
- C.
To come up with new concepts
- D.
To provide insight
- 6.What are the three main assumptions of the field of Sociology? Assumptions about ___________________ Assumptions about ___________________ Assumptions about ___________________
- 7.For Durkheim, what is the root of everything social?
- A.
Collective Effervescence
- B.
Society
- C.
The Economy
- D.
Religion
- 8.What caused the shift from mechanical to organic solidarity?
- A.
Competition
- B.
The enlightenment
- C.
Division of labor
- D.
Class consciousness
- 9.The four types of suicide are: _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________
- 10.Which theorist considers the cult o the individual to be the new sacred element?
- A.
Emile Durkheim
- B.
George Herbert Mead
- C.
Karl Marx
- D.
August Comte
- 11.According to George Herbert Mead, humans don't act, they react.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.What is George Herbert Mead's assumption about human nature?
- A.
We are born a blank slate
- B.
We use symbols to react
- C.
There are natural laws ordering society
- D.
A and B
- 13.Overproduction leads to social change and a collapse in capitalism through class struggle.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.To increase the value of an item, one must create surplus labor.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.The major sociological question Karl Marx tackled in his life work is:
- A.
What is the ideal or utopian society?
- B.
How does capitalism work?
- C.
Why is capitalism so exploitative?
- D.
Why are individuals social and altruistic?
- 16.Peter Kivitso, in Classical Sociological Theory: An Introduction, also states that Marx was more concerned with determining how communism or socialism would work as a utopian society than in studying the existing system of capitalism.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Which of the following is NOT one of the three theoretical frameworks within the field of sociology?
- A.
Social Physics
- B.
Structural Functionalism
- C.
Social Conflict
- D.
Symbolic Interactionism
- 18.In discussing paradigms: tradition and religion is to theology what _________ is to science.
- A.
Facts
- B.
Laws
- C.
Truth
- D.
Theory
- 19.Sociologists believe that we never directly experience the world, we only encounter it through our perspectives.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.Assumptions are considered to be the basis of thinking and theorizing.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Concepts are:
- A.
Used to provide examples
- B.
Tricky to define
- C.
Parts of theory
- D.
Concepts consist of all of the above
- 22.Enlightenment thinkers believed that progress was only possible if societies choose to advance.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Auguste Comte, the father of modern sociology, believed that there were natural laws ordering society and human interaction that could be discovered and adhered to in order to create a more just and peaceful society.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.Pre-modern society was conceptualized as individual, or micro-level, interactions and it wasn't until the scientific stage that society was thought of as a structural entity (i.e. as a state or nation).
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.This is defined as the attempt of alienated individuals to find self-worth in belongings and wealth.
- A.
Commodification
- B.
Market expansion
- C.
Commodity Fetish
- D.
All of the above are attempts of the alienated to find self-worth
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