A. Democracy
B. Communism
C. Dictatorship
D. None of these
Sociology and Society
The communism developed in USSR and china is……………?
A. Same as Marx envisioned
B. is different from Marxian view
C. opposite to Marxian view
D. None of these
According to Durkheim an important component of social life was…………..?
A. Social solidarity
B. Social alienation
C. Individualism
D. None of these
“” Anomie” is a French word means………..?
A. chaos
B. Solidarity
C. Harmony
D. None of these
“Division of Labor in Society” increased emphasis on………….?
A. Interdependence
B. Specialization
C. Occupational Friendships
D. All of these
When workers organized unions and forced management to recognize that they were not object, theorists of formal organizations began to revise the…………….?
A. classical theory
B. scientific management approach
C. human relations approach
D. both a and b
Structural-Functionalists describe society as……………?
A. a complex network of interaction at a micro-level
B. a source of conflict inequality and alienation
C. an unstable structure of social relations
D. a normative framework of roles and institutions
When Berger & Luckman said that reality is socially constructed they meant ?
A. scientists are guided in their work by social values and interests, so they define and measure phenomena that will support their theories
B. people negotiate shared definitions of their situation and live according to these often forgetting that these social worlds are not fixed and external
C. sociologists decide what constitutes social reality and measure only that
D. terms like reality have no deeper meaning beyond the level of discourse
Which of the following is not a characteristic of totalitarian societies ?
A. indoctrination and propaganda
B. freedom of movement for citizens
C. one-party rule
D. a centrally planned economy
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