Sociología - Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman's considered sociology as ...

• a way to predict and direct individual’s behaviour.

• a science that influences society's behaviour.

• a way to provide man and society open access to choices through sociological knowledge

Bauman's most profound influences were ...

• Freud and the Neo-Kantian sociologist and philosopher Simmel.

• Gramsci and the Neo-Kantian sociologist Simmel.

• Marx, the Neo-Kantian sociologist Simmel and Webber.

Bauman’s most famous written concepts were...

• globalization, religion , consumerism, morality and liquid modernity.

• postmodernity, globalization, consumerism, morality and liquid modernity

• economy, lobalization, consumerism, morality and liquid modernity

The concept of “liquid modernity” consists of seeing society as:

• fluent, constantly changing and unstable

• rapid, permeable and stable

• manageable, evolving and unstable

Which of the options below gets closer to Bauman's sociological conceptions?

• technology / modernity

• society / human relations

• both

Which of these definitions about "liquid modernity" resembles the extract from the novel by Milan Kundera:

• constant and transitory change, attacks educational, cultural and economic factors.

• in liquid life, society is based on individualism and relationships have become temporary and unstable.

• a social tendency towards consumerism and the search for satisfaction or our momentary needs