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sociology 2

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fundamental sociological work "On the division of social labor" belongs to:

a)

Weber

b)

G. Spenser

c)

R. Merton

d)

E. Durkheim

2.

Church, mosque, synagogue, religious organizations of believers form:

a)

cults of religion

b)

institute of religion

c)

religious holidays

d)

religious outlook

3.

Ancestor school of symbolic interactionism assumed:

a)

Mr. Garfinkel

b)

R. Dahrendorf

c)

T. Parsons

d)

G.H. Mead

4.

What type of interview was first used by Lazar Feld in 1940 and provides for the collection of information on the same questionnaire to the same respondents several times through well-defined time intervals ?:

a)

expert interview

b)

pilot interview

c)

panel interview

d)

focused interview

5.

August Comte argues that the elementary structural unit of society is:

a)

small-group

b)

family

c)

the genus

d)

the identity

6.

Who owns most of the sociologists expanded definition of evolution:

a)

A. Comte

b)

G. Spencer

c)

Max Weber

d)

P. Sorokin

7.

Concept of the ideal type as a tool for the study of social phenomena introduced in the scientific revolution:

a)

Herbert Spencer

b)

Emile Durkheim

c)

Max Weber

d)

Karl Marx

8.

The most detailed theory of social stratification by:

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Pitirim Sorokin

c)

Max Weber

d)

Emile Durkheim

9.

Who is considered to be a pioneer in the sociology of social statistics:

a)

Auguste Comte

b)

Sorokin

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Karl Marx

10.

Emile Durkheim belongs:

a)

Capital

b)

Study of suicide

c)

The Polish Peasant in the U.S.

d)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

11.

Who believed that the key to social development - it is not the stabilization of society and its destruction and replacement by another, more fair:

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Max Weber

d)

Herbert Spencer

12.

What kind of scientific disciplines Comte put into the base of his " hierarchy of sciences" :

a)

physics

b)

mathematics

c)

sociology

d)

astronomy

13.

According to Spencer Society in sociology is:    

a)

accidental agglomeration of interacting people

b)

a group of individuals who are in a familial relationship between

c)

for quite a long association of independent individuals who are not intending regular interaction

d)

the product of the evolution of small human communities in large

14.

Social progress, by Auguste Comte, is the subject of study:

a)

social statics

b)

social dynamics

c)

social physics

d)

sociometry

15.

Which of the classical sociologists studied the special influence of religious beliefs on ways of organizing economic life:

a)

K. Marx

b)

M. Weber

c)

E. Durkheim

d)

A. Comte

16.

Activities of the bureaucracy as a mechanism of social control is given by:

a)

value - rational type of social action

b)

type of social action aim rational

c)

the traditional type of social action

d)

affective type of social action

17.

What is common to Emile Durkheim, is found in all religions:

a)

the concept of God as a powerful supernatural being

b)

the institution of the church

c)

the division of the world into two categories: the sacred and profane

d)

the presence of cults worship

18.

What are the factors of social development H. Spencer refers to the secondary:

a)

flora and fauna

b)

climate

c)

the consequences of cutting down forests

d)

the intellectual qualities of social units

19.

Literally translated as the term "sociology"?:

a)

theory of nature

b)

doctrine of man

c)

doctrine of consciousness

d)

theory of society

20.

 Sociology studies:

a)

global community

b)

individual personality

c)

mechanism of the functioning of society, the interaction between the various actors, organizations and social institutions 

d)

particular social group or class

21.

When the term "sociology" first appeared:

a)

in 1798

b)

in 1839

c)

in 1843

d)

in 1863

22.

Who and what work the basic task of sociology thus: "Know to foresee, anticipate to avoid":

a)

K. Marx “Capital”

b)

A. Comte “Rates of positive philosophy”

c)

D. Moreno “Sociometry”

d)

D. Carnegie  “How to win friends”

23.

Sociologist who developed the concept of the classical period of ideal types:

a)

M. Weber 

b)

Engels

c)

E. Durkheim

d)

K. Marx

24.

The author of "Course of positive sociology":

a)

T. Parsons

b)

Robert Merton

c)

Comte

d)

Weber

25.

Theory of rationality is central in the works:

a)

Weber

b)

Mr. Garfinkel

c)

P. Sorokin

d)

E. Durkheim

26.

Founder of ethnomethodology in sociology considered:

a)

Mr. Garfinkel

b)

G.H Mead

c)

R. Dahrendorf

d)

E. Durkheim

27.

The author of " The Spirit of Laws," " Reflections on the causes of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire" is:

a)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

b)

E. Durkheim

c)

A. Comte

d)

Montesquieu

28.

Specify work whose author is Montesquieu:

a)

"Foundations of Sociology"

b)

"The course of positive philosophy "

c)

" The Social Contract "

d)

" The Spirit of Laws "

29.

Spencer singled out the following types of companies:

a)

Military and social

b)

Industrial and postindustrial

c)

Military and industrial

d)

Commercial and industrial

30.

Which one work is not written by Emile Durkheim:

a)

"Social mobility"

b)

"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life"

c)

"On the division of social labor"

d)

"Suicide"

31.

The core of Weber's interpretive sociology is:

a)

Sociology

b)

The idea of rationality

c)

Traditionalism

d)

The idea of socialization

32.

A. Comte gave the following three stages of development of society ..., metaphysical, positive:

a)

archaic

b)

organic

c)

theological

d)

manual

33.

A. Comte doctrine of the three stages of social development in the study received:

a)

in social policy

b)

social mechanics

c)

social statics

d)

social dynamics

34.

  "The course of positive philosophy" was written by:

a)

Kant

b)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

c)

A. Comte

d)

Montesquieu

35.

"Sociology is the study of social behavior."  Whose definition is that?:

a)

M. Weber

b)

E. Durkheim

c)

P. Sorokin

d)

R. Merton

36.

Sorokin was the author of the following concepts:

a)

Dialectical materialism

b)

Historical materialism

c)

Social stratification and mobility

d)

Theory of cultural - historical types of society

37.

The theory of stratification are associations of people:

a)

In groups and contrasts them to a status on grounds other groups

b)

In the classes

c)

In the social strata

d)

In the society

38.

Note first direction in sociology?:

a)

Materialism

b)

Idealism

c)

Positivism

d)

Internationalism

39.

Author of the theory of social interaction is:

a)

G. A. Lundberg

b)

A. Comte

c)

A. K. Gastev

d)

G. Mead

40.

This sociologist studied the history of several religions (such as India and China, where business success was not as important as in Protestant Europe) and showed that such motives are not specific to all religions:

a)

E. Durkheim

b)

M. Weber

c)

A. Comte

d)

G. Tarde

41.

"Social action" was first introduced by the scientific revolution scientists:

a)

E. Durkheim

b)

M. Weber

c)

T. Parsons

d)

G. Simmel

42.

The concept of  "social fact" was introduced for the first time in sociology:

a)

E. Durkheim

b)

M. Weber

c)

A. Giddens

d)

A. Comte

43.

Durkheim's concept is called:

a)

positivism

b)

organicism

c)

behaviorism

d)

reductionism

44.

Author of law "three stages" of social development:

a)

G. A. Lundberg

b)

A. Comte

c)

G. Mead

d)

A.K.Gastev

45.

The most common general content category is the notion of sociology:

a)

"Social"

b)

"Status"

c)

Social action "

d)

"Role"

46.

Widespread behavior of people in their immediate interpersonal interaction - is the subject of study:

a)

microsociology

b)

political science

c)

macrosociology

d)

demography

47.

Nuclear family:

a)

a married couple, children, parents

b)

adult brothers and sisters with their families

c)

parents - children

d)

cohabitation family, a common household

48.

The term "infertility " stresses in the family:

a)

the absence of children in the family

b)

education and age of the spouses

c)

the consent of the spouses

d)

equal influence spouses

49.

Complete socialization of children are in the family:

a)

same-sex family

b)

single-parent family

c)

nuclear family

d)

"swinging"

50.

" Emancipation " by M.M. Kovalevsky:

a)

leadership

b)

alienation

c)

satisfying

d)

authoritarianism

51.

Unilocal family it is:

a)

caste

b)

a family group

c)

youth family living with parents

d)

family of two generations

52.

Fragment form of family:

a)

emotional and psychological foundations morally absent

b)

tribal relations

c)

family group

d)

student's family

53.

The couple married with links:

a)

the expectation of the birth of children

b)

family welfare

c)

have as many children as they would like to have a spouse

d)

family relationships

54.

Economic base of the undivided family is:

a)

egalitarian relations

b)

land ownership

c)

diarchy

d)

the value of family

55.

The first stage of the family by L. Morgan:

a)

nuclear family

b)

consanguine family

c)

cohabitation

d)

polygamy

56.

Proclamation of "talaq" spouse in the East:

a)

confirmation of feelings of love

b)

women's movement on their rights

c)

freedom from " slavery" of domestic life

d)

the expulsion of women from the family

57.

 

The main factor in the formation of personality in the family:

a)

feelings

b)

consent

c)

communication

d)

egalitarian relations

58.

Which is better for the baby's gender eastern parents?

a)

male

b)

female

c)

plays an important role

d)

for the mother male

59.

Modern family:

a)

specific

b)

matriarchal

c)

the nuclear

d)

exogamous

60.

Distant family - is:

a)

which presents only one parent with children

b)

legally registered, and almost no

c)

one of the spouses student

d)

family, consisting of three or more couples