Multiple choice questions

1. When it comes to the domains of reason and emotion, Western thought tends to:
   1.   ?    Leave emotion to songwriters and actors to express
   2.   ?    Treat them as two separate and opposing domains
   3.   ?    Suggest grief is associated with reason, and revenge with emotion
   4.   ?    Conflate the two domains as being exactly the same
2. Traditionally, the social sciences have tended to:
   1.   ?    Suggest that emotion is only relevant to women
   2.   ?    Focus on the world of emotion alone
   3.   ?    Focus on the world of reason alone
   4.   ?    Bore students to tears with their emotional distance
3. According to George Simmel, in his essay ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’, cities tend to produce:
   1.   ?    An intensification of nervous stimulation
   2.   ?    Too much garbage, pollution and traffic
   3.   ?    An intensification of class barriers
   4.   ?    More examples of collective sentiments than rural societies
4. What is the missing phrase: “Big Cities are the heart of a ______ _______ that is understood to be connected to the dominance of reason:
   1.   ?    Emotional Overload
   2.   ?    Red-light District
   3.   ?    Working Class
   4.   ?    Money Economy
5. Which of these is NOT one of Max Scheler’s forms of emotional connection?:
   1.   ?    Community of feeling
   2.   ?    Emotional Infection
   3.   ?    Physiological Connection
   4.   ?    True Emotional Identification
6. Which of the following are the ‘foundational emotions’ identified by Theodore Kemper?
   1.   ?    Fear, Anger, Depression and Satisfaction
   2.   ?    Fear, Anger, Revenge and Grief
   3.   ?    Revenge, Grief, Desire and Love
   4.   ?    Love, peace and harmony
7. Secondary emotions, such as guilt, shame and pride, are part of the _____ _____ of different groups.
   1.   ?    Social Fabric
   2.   ?    Hierarchical Arrangements
   3.   ?    Structuring Identities
   4.   ?    Power Relations
8. According to Émile Durkheim, ‘collective effervescence’ is a process where:
   1.   ?    Our emotions are shaped through rites that symbolise group identity
   2.   ?    Individual emotional responses can influence wider group behaviours
   3.   ?    People riot after another pathetic capitulation by the home team
   4.   ?    People structure their societies according to emotional investments
9. Mestrovic suggests that the turn of the century is characterised by:
   1.   ?    Postmodernism
   2.   ?    Postemotionalism
   3.   ?    Poststructuralism
   4.   ?    Green Eggs and Ham
10. The source of emotion is
    1.   ?    Biological
    2.   ?    Social
    3.   ?    Cultural
    4.   ?    All of these
11. Present day biological explanations of emotions come from the work of
    1.   ?    Neurophysiologists
    2.   ?    Marxists
    3.   ?    Hedonists
    4.   ?    Functionalists
12. Rom Harré says that emotions have
    1.   ?    No biological source
    2.   ?    Too much influence in society
    3.   ?    Not enough attention by sociologists
    4.   ?    No social functions
13. Who has shown that emotional norms are culturally variable?
    1.   ?    Statisticians
    2.   ?    Anthropologists and psychologists
    3.   ?    Historians and physicians
    4.   ?    Politicians
14. Which emotion is central in a very large number of movies?
    1.   ?    Revenge
    2.   ?    Compassion
    3.   ?    Hatred
    4.   ?    Disgust
15. Which early sociologists are most associated with the study of emotions
    1.   ?    Weber and Durkheim
    2.   ?    Marx and Weber
    3.   ?    Simmel and Scheler
    4.   ?    Scheler and Durkheim
16. The blasé attitude in urban life
    1.   ?    Is a mechanism of self preservation
    2.   ?    Protects individuals from inappropriate distractions
    3.   ?    Denies feelings
    4.   ?    All of these
17. Theodore Kemper identifies primary emotions which are part of
    1.   ?    Our personal experience
    2.   ?    Our social heritage
    3.   ?    Our biological makeup
    4.   ?    None of these
18. Who wrote about the ‘managed heart’?
    1.   ?    Arlie Hochschild
    2.   ?    Georg Simmel
    3.   ?    Max Weber
    4.   ?    Max Scheler
19. Stjepan Mestrovic is associated with the idea of
    1.   ?    Collective effervescence
    2.   ?    Postemotionalism
    3.   ?    Globalization
    4.   ?    Emotional labour
20. Emotions are closely connected with sociological ideas about
    1.   ?    Embodiment
    2.   ?    Impoverishment
    3.   ?    Restructuring
    4.   ?    Oligarchy