A. egoistic suicide
B. altruistic suicide
C. fatalistic suicide
D. anomic suicide
Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists
Max Weber,s work made use of ideal types What are they ?
A. the most commonly found type of social organization
B. conceptual or analytical models of social phenomena
C. philosophical models of an ideal human society
D. models of society based on up to date statistical evidence
Which of the following influenced the theoretical approach known as symbolic interactionism ?
A. Georg Hegel
B. George Herbert Mead
C. Talcott Parsons
D. Ralf Dahrendof
Sociology has been said to be the product of…………..?
A. the French and Industrial Revolutions
B. the Chinese and Agricultural Revolutions
C. the Russian and Scientific Revolutions
D. the American and Democratic Revolutions
According to Durkheim social facts are…………….?
A. ways of behaving that are external to individuals
B. only things that have been shown to be true
C. social insights into collective behavior
D. information captured by official statistics
Which one of the following is NOT associated with the materialist conception of history ?
A. the mode of production
B. the motor of history
C. the history of class struggle
D. the spirit of capitalism
It is useful to have a diversity of theories in sociology because……………..?
A. human behavior is so complicated that no single theory would be adequate
B. sociologists can choose the theory that best fits the data they have collected
C. it removes the need to assess a theory according the empirical evidence
D. innumerable theories have been developed in the many fields of sociology
Merton’s term for the hidden or forgotten reason for a particular behavior was…………..?
A. middle-range function
B. consumption function
C. latent function
D. structural function
The distribution of power in society is a concern for…………..?
A. microsociology
B. interactionism
C. macrosociology
D. ethnomethodology
Ibne Khaldun is best known for…………..?
A. Muamlla
B. Muqaddimah
C. Muzakira
D. None of these