In modern usage, what does the Arabic concept of asabiyyah refer to?
Correct answer A. Nationalism
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Which statement about roles is FALSE?
Correct answer D. Roles define duties but only statuses define rights
What was Auguste Comte’s nationality?
Correct answer C. French thinker
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People waiting at a bus stop are an example of what?
Correct answer A. Aggregate
In Comte’s law of three stages, where does the scientific or positive stage fall?
Correct answer C. Last Phase
Which statement describes horticultural societies?
Correct answer A. Experience the emergence of social stratification due to production of a social surplus
According to Comte, which science would eventually encompass all the others?
Correct answer A. Sociology
Which of these is an aspect of culture?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Class conflict is the central theory of which thinker?
Correct answer A. Marx
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Which sociologist distinguished between material and non-material culture?
Correct answer A. William F Ogburn
According to Durkheim, why did Protestants have higher suicide rates?
Correct answer C. Individualism
Which statement about values is correct?
Correct answer A. Values of a culture may change but most remain relatively stable during any one person's lifetime
Which thinker is most closely linked to the idea of the sociological imagination?
Correct answer A. C. Wright Mills
Who argued that capitalist society has a dominant ideology serving the interests of the ruling class?
Correct answer D. Karl Marx
Which concept did Max Weber introduce into sociology?
Correct answer A. Ideal types
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What are social institutions?
Correct answer D. None of these
Which early Black sociologist campaigned for racial equality and criticised theorists who accepted the status quo?
Correct answer C. W.E.B. Du Bois
An American on holiday in Great Britain finds that the British drive on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, criticise his accent and refuse dollars in shops. He feels disoriented and out of place. What is he experiencing?
Correct answer B. Culture shock
Which sociologist co-founded Hull House, the well-known Chicago settlement house?
Correct answer B. Jane Addams
According to which sociological perspective does ethnocentrism maintain solidarity by fostering group pride?
Correct answer B. Functionalist perspective