WorksheetsEmile Durkheim Sociology
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Emile Durkheim was considered the father of what sociology theory?
Conflict theory
Symbolic interactionalism
Structural Functionalism
Race theory
Where was Durkheim born and raised?
Germany
France
United States
Spain
Structural Functionalism is
For society to operate efficiently all social systems and social facts must operate in harmony.
Class structure and social stratification must be abolished.
Symbols help provide social norms, social facts, and meaning which helps society operate.
Society needs to have conflict in order to be effective and efficient.
Primitive societies operate through social cohesion and conformity to common norms otherwise known as
Organic solidarity
Institutional solidarity
Class solidarity
Mechanical solidarity
Contemporary societies operate through cohesion of specialized institutions and social systems allowing them to operate collectively. This is know as
Mechanical solidarity
Organic solidarity
Institutional solidarity
Class solidarity
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
Anomie
Collective consensus
Pathological deviant
Modernity
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
Modernity
Anomie
Class conflict
Social stratification
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.
Anomie
Class conflict
Class separation
Modernity
Caused by unequal opportunity for groups born into certain positions.
Social class
Class separation
Class conflict
Social order
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.
Social facts
Suicide
Societal conclusions
Empirical methodology
Linked to progressive economic deregulation.
Altruistic suicide
Egoistic suicide
Anomic suicide
Caused by particularly high levels of integration in society and progressive complexity of roles.
Altruistic suicide
Anomic suicide
Egoistic suicide
The cause of individual personality being increasingly freed from the collective personality, no social role or impotence.
Anomic suicide
Altruistic suicide
Egoistic suicide
Durkheim believed that suicide reinforces the notion that patterns of behavior are governed by external norms and values.
True
False
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
Class separation
Social classes
Suicide
Social stratification
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.
Taoism
Sacred
Totemism
Profane
According to Durkheim, Actions that morally bind individuals to society are know as
Social facts
Collective moral
Social organisation
Sacred
Durkheim believed that this was a normative system shared by the entire social group.
Social norms
Religion
Collective circumstances
Community
Durkheim believed that this served as a moral function to developing society.
Education
Religion
Class structure
Social norms
Defined as unification of diverse individuals.
Moral consensus
Social integration
Social harmony
Category imperative
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
Ethnomethodology
Ecology
Epistemology
Ethnocentrism
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
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Ecology
Epistemology
The theory of the nature of knowledge categorized by the dichotomy of materialism and idealism is known as
Epistemology
Ecology
Ethnomethodology
Essentialism
The theory that humans engage in a common practice of making certain items (a reflection of our social ideals) sacred is know as
Conflict theory
Social theory
Ritual theory
Modernity
The collective representation and sentiments that guide and bind together any group is know as
Social norms
Collective consciousness
Social facts
Profane
Created through mutual dependency, generalized culture, and intermediate groups and organizations
Organic solidarity
Mechanical solidarity
Class solidarity
Collective solidarity
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
Structural interdependence
Egoism
Social learning
Collective effervescence
Highest levels of group cohesiveness and normative regulation.
Organic solidarity
Mechanical solidarity
Individual solidarity
Social solidarity
Self interest as the foundation of morality
Ethnocentrism
Anomie
Anomic
Egoism
A set of norms, values, & morals that hold a group of people together.
Organic solidarity
Mechanical solidarity
Social solidarity
Class solidarity
The everyday, the commonplace, the utilitarian, the mundane aspects of life.
Pathologies
Rites
Sacred
Profane
Assessing the crimes, problems, values, and criminal history in an attempt to understand cause and effect
Social pathology
Totemism
Homo duplex
Rites
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.
Social facts
Individualism
Homo duplex
Collective conscience
Giving priority to the goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly.
Collectivism
The division of labor
Social facts
Anomie
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
Ritual
Social norms
Organic analogy
Social facts
