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Multiple choice questions

Which theorist declared technology the missing masses of social theory:
1. Bruno Latour
2. Martin Heidegger
3. Sherry Turkle
4. Donna Haraway
Which of the following, according to Marc Bloch, distinguishes modern civilization from all those preceding it:
1. Travel
2. Speed
3. Destruction
4. The automobile
Paul Virilio argues that we cannot understand technology, history or society without coming to terms with:
1. Progress
2. Traffic
3. The accident
4. None of the above
The stroller has figured prominently in social theory. More commonly the stroller is referred to as:
1. The pedestrian
2. The walker
3. The flâneur
4. The perambulator
Marshall McLuhan described new technologies as a:
1. Reprogramming of sensory life
2. Way of reinforcing the status quo
3. Means of control used by the ruling class
4. None of the above, he was a literary theorist
Peter Berger said that sociology:
1. Helps you see the familiar in new ways
2. Shows that social reality is multi-layered
3. Shows us the irony of human actions
4. All of the above
Peter Berger has it that the first wisdom of sociology is:
1. Things will get better
2. Things turn out for the best
3. No point grumbling about things
4. Things are not what they seem
We should think of technologies as:
1. Being divorced from human culture
2. An aspect of human culture
3. Irrelevant to human culture
4. None of the above
Which of the following does John Urry not consider to be an aspect of automobility:
1. Its status as premier object of production
2. Its status as a culture in its own right
3. Its commanding presence as a socio-technical assemblage
4. Its usefulness in alleviating the public transport burden
The best technology does not always triumph, their fortunes are shaped by:
1. Social interests
2. Efficiency
3. The best technology always triumphs
4. Sociologists
Which theorist wrote that ‘all you need to know about American society can be gleaned from an anthropology of its driving behaviour’:
1. Sadie Plant
2. Ruth Schwartz Cowan
3. Jean Baudrillard
4. Duncan McKenzi
Edward Tenner refers to negative and unintended technological outcomes as:
1. Revenge effects
2. Accidents
3. Normal accidents
4. Noise
Robert and Helen Lynd’s Middletown revealed the unintended consequences of the automobile to be:
1. The end of walking for pleasure
2. A source of inter-generational conflict
3. The rise of second mortgages
4. All of the above
One of the automobile’s most profound sociological effects is:
1. The shifting balance of power from collective to individual modes of organizations
2. The way in which it allows everyone to get everywhere faster (efficiency)
3. It has no profound sociological effects
4. The way that new models constantly flood the market (consumer choice)
The costs of automobility in terms of vehicle-related deaths are borne disproportionately by:
1. Vehicle manufacturers
2. The middle classes
3. Those in the highly developed world
4. Those in low and middle-income countries
Technologies operate as:
1. Object and metaphor
2. Network and system
3. Environment and culture
4. All of the above
Technologies are:
1. Socially shaped
2. Socially shaping
3. All of the above
4. None of the above
Technologies are:
1. The outcome of compromise
2. Shaped by logic alone
3. Purely symbolic
4. Pure
Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco argue that the most important cultural context of technology is that of:
1. Design
2. Marketing
3. Use
4. Production
Artefacts should be considered in terms of:
1. Pure technologies
2. Socio-technical systems
3. Technological determinism
4. None of the above

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