The conflict perspective is mainly based on whose work?
Correct answer A. Karl Marx
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What does a pastoralist society depend on?
Correct answer B. Domesticated livestock
Who revived the conflict perspective in the twentieth century?
Correct answer D. Both B and C
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What are the main features of a horticultural society?
Correct answer D. All of the above
How does horticulture differ from agriculture?
Correct answer D. Both A and C
What does Comte’s term positivism refer to?
Correct answer A. The precise scientific study of observable phenomena
When did horticulture and agriculture develop?
Correct answer A. 10,000 to 8,000 BCE
How did Durkheim define social facts?
Correct answer A. Ways of acting, thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
When and where did the first Industrial Revolution take place?
Correct answer C. In Europe during 18th and 19th centuries
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Whose idea was the ‘iron cage’ of bureaucracy?
Correct answer B. Max Weber
What are the characteristics of scientific observation?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Who first coined the term ‘sociology’?
Correct answer A. Auguste Comte
What does Marx’s concept of species-being mean?
Correct answer A. Self-actualisation
What does the term bourgeoisie refer to?
Correct answer A. The capitalists
In his positive philosophy, what did Comte say sociology should be based on?
Correct answer A. Systematic observation and classification
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According to Marx, who should receive the fruits of labour?
Correct answer B. The working class
Which theory did Herbert Spencer put forward?
Correct answer C. Social Evolution
What did all early sociologists emphasise?
Correct answer C. Sociology should follow scientific method
What solution did Marx propose for the problem of alienation?
Correct answer A. Communism
Which was the earliest theoretical perspective in sociology?
Correct answer C. The evolutionary perspective