Sociology and Important Sociologists MCQs – Page 2

Question 21 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Which type of suicide rises with normlessness and weak social regulation?

Correct answer B. Anomic suicide

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Question 22 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Max Weber made use of ideal types in his work. What are they?

Correct answer A. Conceptual or analytical models of social phenomena

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Question 23 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Who influenced the theoretical approach called symbolic interactionism?

Correct answer C. George Herbert Mead

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Question 24 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Sociology is often described as a product of which two historical events?

Correct answer B. The French and Industrial Revolutions

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Question 25 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

How did Durkheim define social facts?

Correct answer B. Ways of behaving that are external to individuals

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Question 26 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Which of the following is NOT linked to Marx’s materialist conception of history?

Correct answer A. The spirit of capitalism

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Question 27 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Why is it useful for sociology to have a diversity of theories?

Correct answer C. Human behaviour is so complicated that no single theory would be adequate

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Question 28 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

What was Merton’s term for the hidden or unintended purpose behind a particular behaviour?

Correct answer A. Latent function

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Question 29 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

For which work is Ibn Khaldun best known?

Correct answer A. Muqaddimah

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Question 30 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

The Muqaddimah is an early Muslim view of what?

Correct answer C. Universal history

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Question 31 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

In his theories, which thinker is Ibn Khaldun considered closest to?

Correct answer B. Marx

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Question 32 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

What law did Comte put forward?

Correct answer B. Three phases

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Question 33 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

According to Marx, capitalism replaced feudalism. What would in turn replace capitalism?

Correct answer B. Communism

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Question 34 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Whose view was that sociology is simply the science of social facts?

Correct answer B. Durkheim

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Question 35 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Who coined the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’?

Correct answer A. Herbert Spencer

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Question 36 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

In his study of suicide, Emile Durkheim was primarily concerned with:

Correct answer A. suicide rates and how they varied from country to country

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Question 37 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Robert Merton’s contributions to sociology include?

Correct answer D. All of the above

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Question 38 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Which sociologist never wrote a book, his ideas being known mainly through lectures edited and published by his students after his death?

Correct answer D. George Herbert Mead

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Question 39 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?

Correct answer B. Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

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Question 40 Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Which sociologist introduced the concept of cultural lag?

Correct answer C. William F. Ogburn

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