Sociology is the study and analysis of human relationships and institutions which elucidates necessary affairs of the world, communities, and personal life. Sociology research about social causes and outcomes of family conflict, religious faith, racial and gender identity, crime and law, etc. This quiz has been designed to test your knowledge about basic sociology. Read the questions and answer according to the options provided. All the best!
Study of society.
Study of sociopaths.
Systematic study of human society and social interaction.
Systematic study of sociological perspectives.
Organized, Systematic
Inquiring
Curious, Committed
All of the above
Marx, Durkheim, Jung, Freud
Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber
Jung, Freud, Darwin, Marx
Simmel, Darwin, Twain, Weber
Sociological Cause and Effect
Sociological Research Theory
Sociological Imagination
Theoretical Paradigm
A statement of how and why specific facts are related.
A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to describe, explain and (occasionally) predict social events.
Sociologically created answers to sociological questions.
A and B.
True
False
Is rooted in the tradition of Durkheim (elaborated by Talcott Parsons)
Believes that society is a system
Functionalist perspectives are based on the assumption that society is a stable and orderly system.
None of the above.
All of the above.
Rooted in the work of Marx and Weber
Focuses on power and its deployment
Groups in society are engaged in a continuous power struggle for control over scarce resources
All true
All false
Focused on economic arrangements.
Believed that scarce or limited resources created conflict.
None of the above.
All of the above.
Disagreed with Marx that all power is economic
Added prestige (status)
There are different forms of authority
None of the above
All of the above
Sociology by, for and about women.
Focus on the significance of gender in understanding and explaining inequalities that exist between men and women.
Both
Conflict theory
Social interactionism
Postmodernism
Feminism
Functionalism
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