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Sociology Foundations

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

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Class
Date
1.

Structural Functionalism is known as the ______________.

a)

Order Model

b)

Conflict Model

c)

Symbolic Interactionism

d)

Rationality

2.

Sociology is a social science.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Sociological conclusions must be drawn on what?

a)

Gut Feeling

b)

Opinion

c)

Logical and Empirical Basis

d)

First Person Knowledge

4.

Sociology only deals with large social institutions, not person to person interactions

a)

True

b)

False

5.

According to Marx, what is the basis of societal conflict?

a)

Ideas

b)

Inequalities

c)

Change

d)

Opinions

6.

Who is considered the "Father of Sociology"?

a)

Peter Berger

b)

Alexis de Tocqueville

c)

Karl Marx

d)

August Comte

7.

To Weber, what is "rationality"?

a)

Logic

b)

Empirical

c)

Efficiency

d)

Money

8.

Which Sociological paradigm sees society as a whole whose individual parts work toward for the betterment of the whole.

a)

Social Conflict Theory

b)

Structural Functionalism

c)

Symbolic Interactionism

d)

Conflict Model

9.

Who coined the term "Sociological Imagination"?

a)

G.H. Mead

b)

Karl Marx

c)

C. Wright Mills

d)

Auguste Comte

10.

What does is mean for a conclusion to be logical?

a)

It is true

b)

It makes sense

c)

It is the best decision

d)

It doesn't make sense

11.

What does it mean for a conclusion to be empirical?

a)

It makes sense

b)

It is opinion based

c)

It corresponds with the facts

d)

It was decreed by a king

12.

Which Sociological paradigm sees life as an arena of struggle based on inequalities?

a)

Structural Functionalism

b)

Conflict Theory

c)

Symbolic Interactionism

d)

Order Model

13.

How does Symbolic Interactionism view symbols?

a)

They never change

b)

They change with time and place

c)

They have no meaning

d)

They are incorrect

14.

Who is the founder of the Social-Conflict Approach?

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

August Comte

c)

Karl Marx

d)

Adam Smith

15.

Who is the founder of the Structural-Functional Approach?

a)

Karl Marx

b)

Emile Durkheim

c)

C. Wright Mills

d)

Frank Lloyd Wright

16.

According to Peter Berger, what is a sociologist supposed to do?

a)

Unmask the Social Reality

b)

Be Scientific

c)

Be Curious

d)

All of these

17.

Which Founder was also a leader of the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Michel Foucault

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Peter Berger

d)

Karl Marx