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Multiple choice questions

BEING SOCIOLOGICAL

Sociology was invented in:
1. Europe
2. America
3. Australasia
4. China
Sociology has its intellectual origins in:
1. Statistics
2. Policy
3. The Enlightenment
4. Statics
The ‘two revolutions’ were:
1. The Industrial and the Chemical
2. The Industrial and the French
3. Invented by the French
4. Of marginal sociological significance
Sociology specializes in understanding:
1. Individual cognitive processes
2. Group life in traditional society
3. Group life in modern society
4. Physiological processes
Arguably the French Revolution:
1. Invented modern political life
2. Invented modern economic life
3. Solidified traditional social relations
4. Had no obvious social effects
According to C. Wright Mills sociology fills the space where:
1. Life meets chance
2. Biography meets history
3. Agency meets individuality
4. Structure meets culture
In the social sciences the subject of Anthropology takes what as its object:
1. Modern society
2. Individual cognitive processes
3. Time
4. Group life in traditional societies
We call the breaking up a particular task (whether making something or administering something) into a larger number of smaller units, with each more modest task performed by specialised workers:
1. The division of labour
2. Structuration
3. The work divide
4. Allocation
The key early novelty in the Industrial revolution was:
1. The farm
2. The factory
3. The state
4. The home
Two of the earliest scholars to discuss the division of labour were:
1. Adam Faith and Allen Clarke
2. Samuel Johnson and Anthony Boswell
3. Linda Smith and Tracey McIntosh
4. Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith
At the broadest scale, what two really Big Things happened in human history:
1. The domestication of plants and animals, and industrialization
2. The rise of the state and the factory
3. The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
4. None of the above
Who said ‘To modernise is to industrialise’:
1. Saskia Sassen
2. Bill Gates
3. Krishnan Kumar
4. David Harvey
In the classical sociologists’ variants on the traditional/modern dichotomy, Émile Durkheim contrasted:
1. Mechanical solidarity with organic solidarity
2. Traditional society with rational-legal society
3. Natural will with political will
4. None of the above
In the classical sociologists’ variants on the traditional/modern dichotomy, Ferdinand Tönnies contrasted:
1. Organic solidarity with metallic solidarity
2. Traditional domination with legal-rational domination
3. Natural will with rational will
4. None of the above
Enlightenment philosophers celebrated:
1. Progress
2. Stasis
3. Tradition
4. The Church
Enlightenment scholars placed great faith in:
1. Reason
2. Science
3. Both of the above
4. None of the above
According to Ian Carter all sociologists are committed to:
1. The analysis of individual cognitive processes
2. Laws of social development
3. Post-Enlightenment values
4. Comparison and critique
Modernism refers to:
1. A set of artistic practices
2. The culture of being modern
3. A reaction against modernity
4. None of the above
The negative aspects of modernization include:
1. Unprecedented levels of resource depletion
2. Unprecedented levels of pollution
3. The industrialization of killing
4. All of the above
Many recent critics have pointed out that Enlightenment intellectuals were:
1. European men who generalized from their own experience
2. Too postmodern
3. Too pessimistic about the future
4. Non-westerners who have nothing to say about the European experience

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