In order to realize a civil society, we must be open to the idea of...
Conflicts are less likely to be violent if there appears to be...
The central question or concern for critical theorists is how to...
Critical theory in the United States is more of a social action...
Relative deprivation is the sense of being underprivileged.
One aspect of the "spirit" of capitalism is that making...
Credentialing, in a bureaucratic society, leads to an overemphasis on...
For Mead, meaning is emergent, pragmatically arising out of different...
Mead believes that the mind evolves as the social process or he social...
The modern world is one where we are ultimately concerned with...
For Dahrendorf, as groups become better organized, they become less...
Dahrendorf believes that society's culture reflects the interests...
Sociologists believe that we never directly experience the world, we...
Overstimulation and overpopulation lead to a desire to stand out and...
The colonialization of the lifeworld by political and economic systems...
Critical theorists charge individuals to look at things taken for...
Whereas Coser was concerned with conflict resulting from class,...
Critical theorists within the United States work toward eliminating...
Auguste Comte, the father of modern sociology, believed that there...
According to Mead, the mind is a behavior involving several behavioral...
Critical theorists believed that ideology was even more insidious than...
Which of the following is NOT one of the three theoretical frameworks...
Assumptions are considered to be the basis of thinking and theorizing.
Marx believes that false consciousness is reinforced and capitalism...
Durkheim assumed human beings are innately selfish, driven by...
The premodern person existed within a collective environment.
Simmel believed that the purpose and goal of knowledge was to uncover...
Overproduction leads to social change and a collapse in capitalism...
Urbanization started as a result of:
A consequence of organized capitalism is that the state faces crises...
Pre-modern society was conceptualized as individual, or micro-level,...
Concepts are:
The geographic territory is the fundamental element over which...
Postmodernism arose from which of the following fundamental changes:
Unlike Marx, Weber believed that society only existed subjectively,...
Which of the following is considered a social object?
The more variation a culture has, the more objective the culture.
Mead believes that human beings are a blank slate ("tabula...
The increase in the division of labor is due to:
According to Comte, what was the purpose of Sociology? What were we to...
Mead agreed with Durkheim that too much diversity would lead to a...
To increase the value of an item, one must create surplus labor.
Randall Collins insists that people who live within the United States...
Which theorist is most closely linked to Positivism?
One consequence of rational group membership is increased boredom or...
What reason is given by Weber for society's inability to escape...
What is George Herbert Mead's assumption about human nature?
The development of the self is dependent on what?
In what stage does the child take on the role of one or two others?
The idea that we assume a collective consensus or that everyone...
Which of the following is NOT one of the types of authority identified...
What caused the shift from mechanical to organic solidarity?
The self is static and unchanging.
In his geopolitical theory, Collins labels the "legitimated use...
The Late Modern Person is an individual who understands themselves...
Social facts cannot cause other social facts
A functional consequence of internal consequence is:
In organized capitalism, we saw a shift from economic ideology driven...
Durkheim believed that humans, innately, are connected through our:
It is thought that the modern person is incapable of reason or...
Weber believed that once a culture/society entered into an...
Coser believed that while internal conflict was functional, external...
Which theorist considers the cult o the individual to be the new...
In order to increase the value of an item and therefore, profit, one...
The protestant ethic caused capitalism.
Weber was a big fan of bureaucracy.
The modern person appeared during which Comtean stage of development?
Rational group memberships last longer than organic group memberships.
Rational group membership leads to:
The "Me" is the set of impulses, and the "I" is...
Simmel agreed with Mead that people are born as a blank slate with no...
Organic groups tend to be segmented, only occupying parts of an...
Goffman's theory serves to refute and contradict the claims made...
Peter Kivitso, in Classical Sociological Theory: An...
In discussing paradigms: tradition and religion is to theology what...
The progress of Sociological knowledge has gone through three phases:...
Sacredness is an intrinsic quality
The major sociological question Karl Marx tackled in his life work is:
There are five stages of role taking
Simmel argues that the proliferation of the modern world increases:
Increased patriotism, or solidarity, an us vs. them boundary results...
Pragmatists believe in the existence of universal truths and facts.
According to George Herbert Mead, humans don't act, they...
Critical theorists believe that while objectivity is possible,...
For Durkheim, what is the root of everything social?
For Goffman, this is the central organizing feature for all social...
According to lecture, critical theory extends Marx's take on:
This type of person is described by Weber as being...
Individuals who experience absolute deprivation are more likely to...
In ideal speech communities, each person should strive to keep their...
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the shift from liberal to...
How does separation occur?
Enlightenment thinkers believed that progress was only possible if...
For a conflict to continue for a long period of time, a group needs...
The Frankfort School was NOT influenced by:
The two types of objective knowledge that Weber believed could be...
A handshake is a significant gesture because:
What is the principle force in modernity?
Hitler is considered what type of authority?
Simmel departs from Mead's concern with the self in modernity by...
Monarchies would be an example of what type of authority?
Of the following, which is NOT a condition identified by Dahrendorf...
Weber falls under what theoretical framework?
In studying religion, Weber is "most interested" in...
This is defined as the attempt of alienated individuals to find...
Durkheim concludes that this is the new sacred element, and the most...
_______________ was born out of a response to the Civil War and...
Which conflict theorist, as we discussed in class, believes that...
What is the function of theory? Check all that are correct.
What are the three main assumptions of the field of Sociology?...
The four types of suicide are:...
What are the two main ideas of the Enlightenment?