What does the term ‘Second World societies’ refer to?
Correct answer B. Countries that industrialised under state central planning
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Put the total GDPs of these countries in descending order (recent data).
Correct answer A. Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Portugal
In Merton’s terms, what is a person called who abandons the goal of material success but compulsively sticks to the institutional means?
Correct answer A. Ritualist
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What is the hunter-gatherer way of life based on?
Correct answer D. Exploitation of wild animals and plants
The Maasai of Kenya are an example of which kind of society?
Correct answer C. Pastoralist society
Whose needs does subsistence agriculture meet?
Correct answer C. Agriculturist and his/her family
What are the main types of agriculture?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
Where were agriculture and horticulture first developed?
Correct answer B. The Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East
Division of labour is a characteristic of which type of society?
Correct answer B. Industrialisation
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According to Weber, what was the driving force of society?
Correct answer A. Rationality
What does the term proletariat refer to?
Correct answer B. The working class
What did Marx believe capitalism would lead to?
Correct answer A. Increasingly unhappy individuals
According to Marx, what is the main cause of unhappiness among the working class?
Correct answer A. Alienation from the results of production
Who wrote the classic study ‘Suicide’?
Correct answer C. Emile Durkheim
According to Durkheim, what was one root cause of suicide?
Correct answer B. Decrease in social solidarity
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Why, according to Durkheim, was the suicide rate higher among Protestants?
Correct answer A. Individualism
How was solidarity maintained in pre-industrial societies?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
Which term did Talcott Parsons use to argue that society tends towards stability or balance?
Correct answer B. Equilibrium
Under communism, who owns the means of production?
Correct answer C. Means of production are owned by the community
What does the pragmatist philosophy underlying symbolic interactionism teach?
Correct answer D. Knowledge is produced in everyday practical situations