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Emile Durkheim Sociology

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

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Class
Date
1.

Emile Durkheim was considered the father of what sociology theory?

a)

Conflict theory

b)

Symbolic interactionalism

c)

Structural Functionalism

d)

Race theory

2.

Where was Durkheim born and raised?

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

United States

d)

Spain

3.

Structural Functionalism is

a)

For society to operate efficiently all social systems and social facts must operate in harmony.

b)

Class structure and social stratification must be abolished.

c)

Symbols help provide social norms, social facts, and meaning which helps society operate.

d)

Society needs to have conflict in order to be effective and efficient.

4.

Primitive societies operate through social cohesion and conformity to common norms otherwise known as

a)

Organic solidarity

b)

Institutional solidarity

c)

Class solidarity

d)

Mechanical solidarity

5.

Contemporary societies operate through cohesion of specialized institutions and social systems allowing them to operate collectively. This is know as

a)

Mechanical solidarity

b)

Organic solidarity

c)

Institutional solidarity

d)

Class solidarity

6.

The process in which an individual holds an insatiable appetite and limitless desire for wealth which results in general feelings of dissatisfaction can lead to

a)

Anomie

b)

Collective consensus

c)

Pathological deviant

d)

Modernity

7.

The lack of moral regulation, limitless ambition and lack of meaning of life created by rapid social change, decline in moral authority, increased complexity in social rules and roles is known as

a)

Modernity

b)

Anomie

c)

Class conflict

d)

Social stratification

8.

This is known as the rise of the nation state, growth of tolerance as a political and social belief, industrialization, rise of mercantilism and capitalism, or urbanization.

a)

Anomie

b)

Class conflict

c)

Class separation

d)

Modernity

9.

Caused by unequal opportunity for groups born into certain positions.

a)

Social class

b)

Class separation

c)

Class conflict

d)

Social order

10.

The name of Durkheim’s book (1952) where he used statistical correlations to illustrate the importance of empirical methodology as a meant to understand social facts about actions people are taking on their life.

a)

Social facts

b)

Suicide

c)

Societal conclusions

d)

Empirical methodology

11.

Linked to progressive economic deregulation.

a)

Altruistic suicide

b)

Egoistic suicide

c)

Anomic suicide

12.

Caused by particularly high levels of integration in society and progressive complexity of roles.

a)

Altruistic suicide

b)

Anomic suicide

c)

Egoistic suicide

13.

The cause of individual personality being increasingly freed from the collective personality, no social role or impotence.

a)

Anomic suicide

b)

Altruistic suicide

c)

Egoistic suicide

14.

Durkheim believed that suicide reinforces the notion that patterns of behavior are governed by external norms and values.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Durkheim believed that if you created moral unity based on a sense of mutual independence promoted through laws and education provided by the state could solve

a)

Class separation

b)

Social classes

c)

Suicide

d)

Social stratification

16.

Durkheim deemed this to be the most primitive form of religion which is associated with the most basic form of social organisation representing a clan.

a)

Taoism

b)

Sacred

c)

Totemism

d)

Profane

17.

According to Durkheim, Actions that morally bind individuals to society are know as

a)

Social facts

b)

Collective moral

c)

Social organisation

d)

Sacred

18.

Durkheim believed that this was a normative system shared by the entire social group.

a)

Social norms

b)

Religion

c)

Collective circumstances

d)

Community

19.

Durkheim believed that this served as a moral function to developing society.

a)

Education

b)

Religion

c)

Class structure

d)

Social norms

20.

Defined as unification of diverse individuals.

a)

Moral consensus

b)

Social integration

c)

Social harmony

d)

Category imperative

21.

Attitudes judging, or evaluating another culture based on how it compares to one’s own cultural norms and carrying the belief that your culture is better than all others is an example of

a)

Ethnomethodology

b)

Ecology

c)

Epistemology

d)

Ethnocentrism

22.

An approach within sociology that focuses on the way people as rational actors make sense of their everyday world by employing practical reasoning rather than formal logic is know as

a)

Ethnography

b)

Ethnomethodology

c)

Ecology

d)

Epistemology

23.

The theory of the nature of knowledge categorized by the dichotomy of materialism and idealism is known as

a)

Epistemology

b)

Ecology

c)

Ethnomethodology

d)

Essentialism

24.

The theory that humans engage in a common practice of making certain items (a reflection of our social ideals) sacred is know as

a)

Conflict theory

b)

Social theory

c)

Ritual theory

d)

Modernity

25.

The collective representation and sentiments that guide and bind together any group is know as

a)

Social norms

b)

Collective consciousness

c)

Social facts

d)

Profane

26.

Created through mutual dependency, generalized culture, and intermediate groups and organizations

a)

Organic solidarity

b)

Mechanical solidarity

c)

Class solidarity

d)

Collective solidarity

27.

The level of motivational energy felt after participating in a ritual often varying by degree of common focus of attention, emotional mood and physical copresence is know as

a)

Structural interdependence

b)

Egoism

c)

Social learning

d)

Collective effervescence

28.

Highest levels of group cohesiveness and normative regulation.

a)

Organic solidarity

b)

Mechanical solidarity

c)

Individual solidarity

d)

Social solidarity

29.

Self interest as the foundation of morality

a)

Ethnocentrism

b)

Anomie

c)

Anomic

d)

Egoism

30.

A set of norms, values, & morals that hold a group of people together.

a)

Organic solidarity

b)

Mechanical solidarity

c)

Social solidarity

d)

Class solidarity

31.

The everyday, the commonplace, the utilitarian, the mundane aspects of life.

a)

Pathologies

b)

Rites

c)

Sacred

d)

Profane

32.

Assessing the crimes, problems, values, and criminal history in an attempt to understand cause and effect

a)

Social pathology

b)

Totemism

c)

Homo duplex

d)

Rites

33.

A human on one hand is a biological organism driven by instincts, desire, and appetite and on the other hand is being led by morality and other elements generated by society. The belief that a person goes beyond the primitive nature as a result of normative systems and social norms.

a)

Social facts

b)

Individualism

c)

Homo duplex

d)

Collective conscience

34.

Giving priority to the goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly.

a)

Collectivism

b)

The division of labor

c)

Social facts

d)

Anomie

35.

The elements that serve some function in society such as laws, morals, values, religions, customs, rituals, and rules that make up society also known as a groups patterns of behavior

a)

Ritual

b)

Social norms

c)

Organic analogy

d)

Social facts