When Daniel and Cheryl Albas studied how students manage appearances after grades are awarded, whose concept of impression management did they use?
Correct answer A. Erving Goffman
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Which sociological perspective argues that schools in the United States encourage competition through built-in systems of rewards and punishments?
Correct answer B. Conflict perspective
Which sociological perspective stresses that a society could not function if large numbers of people ignored the standards of acceptable behaviour?
Correct answer C. Functionalist perspective
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The ‘model minority’ stereotype of Asian Americans implicitly criticises Black, Hispanic and other groups for not succeeding to the same degree. Which sociological perspective would see this as another case of blaming the victim?
Correct answer C. Conflict perspective
Which of these thinkers is the odd one out?
Correct answer D. Antonio Gramsci
Which of these is NOT a mode of production in Marxist terms?
Correct answer D. Liberalism
Which problem was Talcott Parsons’ structural functionalism mainly trying to solve?
Correct answer C. The problem of social order
Which of these perspectives is NOT normally grouped under interactionism?
Correct answer B. Feminism
Which of these is NOT an example of a manufactured risk?
Correct answer D. Volcanic eruptions
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What makes feminist perspectives distinctive within sociology?
Correct answer A. They emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
Which of the following concepts does Michel Foucault’s work deal with?
Correct answer D. All of these
Which of the following statements is NOT one of the main criticisms that postcolonial thinkers make of mainstream sociology?
Correct answer C. The sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing
Which sociologist first coined the term ‘sociological imagination’?
Correct answer E. Mills
What greatly helped the rise of globalisation?
Correct answer A. Developments in transportation and communication
Where is sociology generally regarded as having been born?
Correct answer D. Europe
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Which sociologist developed the concept of anomie?
Correct answer E. Durkheim
What did Weber mean by rationalisation?
Correct answer D. Humans would eventually seek out the most efficient means to accomplish a particular task
Which theoretical perspective stresses the interdependence of the component parts of society?
Correct answer C. Structural Functionalism
Conflict theory is often criticised for failing to explain what?
Correct answer E. Consensus
Which research technique are sociologists who follow symbolic interactionism most likely to use?
Correct answer A. Observation