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Multiple choice questions

Ferdinand Tonnies defines ‘community’ and ‘society’ as:
1. Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft
2. Gestalt and gemeinschaft
3. Micro and macro
4. None of the above
Benedict Anderson suggests that communities are not only lived, they are also:
1. Virtual
2. Imagined
3. Foundational
4. Geographical
Studies of community as a functional part of urban integration are associated with:
1. Georg Simmel
2. Marxism
3. The Chicago School
4. Roland Barthes
The definition of ‘virtual communities’ as social aggregations that emerge from the Net comes from:
1. Sherry Turkle
2. Howard Rheingold
3. Robert Park
4. Ferdinand Tonnies
Online communities can be divided between:
1. Spontaneous and contrived
2. Virtual and real
3. Open and closed source
4. Microsoft and Macintosh
Community is a term:
1. That is never used unfavourable
2. Used as a cure all for deviance and social intervention
3. That is an adjunct to neo-liberal welfare programs
4. All of the above
Community can denote:
1. Uncommon interest
2. Larger groups than society
3. Locality
4. None of the above
Community’s connotations include:
1. Feeling
2. Belonging
3. Oppression
4. All of the above
An alternative word for community is:
1. Gesellschaft
2. Angst
3. Networks
4. Locations
Community is relevant to sociology because
1. People search for meaning in their lives
2. The loss of traditional ways leads to alienation
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above
Communities survive by creating:
1. Databases of membership
2. Strict moral codes
3. In and out groups
4. None of the above
The difference between association and community is:
1. Associations do a lot of work on the community
2. Communities are naturally occurring
3. Community involves the state
4. Associations involve the market
The discourse of community is often:
1. Hopeful
2. Nostalgic
3. Romantic
4. All of the above
Virtual communities:
1. Add new complexity to the ideas of community
2. Are not ‘real’ communities
3. Are for geeks
4. Are never imbricated with capitalism
Factors that have contributed to the return of community are:
1. Social policy and the rise of electronic communities
2. Suburbs and public transport
3. The mass media and entertainment
4. Postmodernism
R.A. Nisbet considered community as:
1. The source of moral behavior
2. Not applicable to modernity
3. A rural phenomenon
4. The most fundamental and far reaching of sociology’s unit-ideas
W. Lloyd Warner's Yankeetown (1963) and the Lynds’ Middletown (1956 focused on small town America as:
1. A microcosm of a larger whole
2. The true community
3. Superior to cities
4. None of the above
One of the defining features of being modern remains:
1. The loss of community
2. Going shopping
3. The pull between community and individualism
4. All of the above
Criticisms of the Chicago school approach that can be made are:
1. Is locality enough?
2. Does such spatial determinism really work?
3. Are people in neighborhoods really that homogenous?
4. All of the above
Julian Dibble found that the Internet to be:
1. The electronic village
2. Not a place where the non-virtual world can be escaped
3. Of little significance
4. A place of associations rather than communities

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