HUMMS112: SQ9

The basic premise of rational choice is that social behavior and attitude is the result of ____.

• individual actions and choices

• deliberation and choice

• mutual understanding

• communal agreement

The “rational” approach started at the dawn of the Cold War.

• True

• False

According to Blume and Easley, rational choice had been around ever since the rise of through the rise of Adam Smith.

• communism

• capitalism

• fascism

• economics

This traces the progress of both socio-economic behavior in society through the growth and history of an institution.

• New Institutionalism

• Old Institutionalism

• Historical institutionalism

• Fundamental Institutionalism

Which of the following is a work of Michel Foucault?

• Discipline and Punish

• The Birth of Tragedy

• The Last Resort

• Creation of Adam

Rational Choice Theory is primarily a part of theory as well as that of social theory.

• practical

• logical

• economic

• scientific

The value of historical institutionalism is that it shows how an institution can reflect the changes within society, and how one need not to extensively pursue a conclusion based on multiple observations on society, but rather can be focused on one body that sufficiently accounts for a proper description of society’s progress.

• False

• True

If one thinks about it, rational choice seems to have been around for quite some time, since the primary inclination of a human being is to choose what is most rational. However, rational choice as a theory applied in both sociology and economics has been applied only recently.

• False

• True

New institutionalism and old institutionalism are the same.

• True

• False

Rationality could take various forms, but applied to sociology, it becomes the ___ of society.

• improvement

• devotion

• creation

• identity