Multiple choice questions

1. Who argues that the work ethic is in decline in modern society?
   1.   ?    Michel Foucault
   2.   ?    Karl Marx
   3.   ?    Zygmunt Bauman
   4.   ?    Harry Braverman
2. The invisible and immaterial things that work produces are:
   
   1.   ?    Profits
   2.   ?    Classes
   3.   ?    Aspirations
   4.   ?    All of the above
3. Curtis argues that the relationship between management and workers is based on:
   1.   ?    Surplus cost
   2.   ?    Control and resistance
   3.   ?    Sexual tension
   4.   ?    Gender Inequalities
4. Deskilling reaches its zenith in the design of work called:
   1.   ?    Fordism
   2.   ?    Jingoism
   3.   ?    Technocracy
   4.   ?    Sociology
5. The process by which the principles of fast-food restaurants some to dominate more and more sectors of society is known as:
   1.   ?    Kentucky Fried Economics
   2.   ?    Whopper Welfare
   3.   ?    McDonaldization
   4.   ?    Burgerism
6. The assemblage of humans and machines in information-rich work is known as:
   1.   ?    Luke Skywalker
   2.   ?    Cyborg Work
   3.   ?    Technocratic Work
   4.   ?    Call Centre Work
7. Zygmunt Bauman argues that we are moving from a society based on the work ethic to one based on the:
   1.   ?    Protestant Ethic
   2.   ?    Communist manifesto
   3.   ?    Aesthetic of consumption
   4.   ?    Leisure Principle
8. One tactic of worker resistance known as ‘la perruque’ refers to:
   1.   ?    Playing petanque at work
   2.   ?    Sleeping on the job
   3.   ?    Pilfering stationary
   4.   ?    The ‘work’ of appearing to work
9. Who determines what is to be produced in the workplace?
   1.   ?    Managers
   2.   ?    Capitalists
   3.   ?    Consumers
   4.   ?    Producers
10. Who wrote the book Consumption and Identity at Work?:
    1.   ?    Michel de Certeau
    2.   ?    George Ritzer
    3.   ?    Paul Du Gay
    4.   ?    Harry Braverman
11. Paid work is associated with:
    1.   ?    Consumption
    2.   ?    Class
    3.   ?    Capitalism
    4.   ?    All of the above
12. The sociology of work focuses on:
    1.   ?    The benevolent employer
    2.   ?    The recalcitrant worker
    3.   ?    Government controls
    4.   ?    Academic salaries
13. Deskilling and Fordism:
    1.   ?    Apply to owners but not workers
    2.   ?    Are relevant in the production of many goods and services
    3.   ?    Are mostly found at McDonalds and Starbucks
    4.   ?    None of these
14. Burawoy and Paul Du Gay both look at the labour process as a:
    1.   ?    Drama
    2.   ?    Game
    3.   ?    Sport
    4.   ?    Danger
15. The ideal consumer citizen described by Bauman has which qualities?:
    1.   ?    Endures monotony
    2.   ?    Respects tradition
    3.   ?    Is readily satisfied
    4.   ?    None of these
16. Benefits from ‘consumer society’ are:
    1.   ?    Not distributed equally through society
    2.   ?    Distributed equally through society
    3.   ?    Only enjoyed by monopoly capitalists
    4.   ?    Only enjoyed by workers in McJobs
17. Braverman’s main concern in the field of work is with:
    1.   ?    Unemployment
    2.   ?    Exploitation
    3.   ?    Deskilling
    4.   ?    Production
18. The fundamental driver of capitalist society is:
    1.   ?    The development of technology
    2.   ?    The pursuit of leisure
    3.   ?    The accumulation of capital
    4.   ?    None of the above
19. The bourgeoisie are the:
    1.   ?    The class of modern workers
    2.   ?    The proletariat.
    3.   ?    The owners of the means of production
    4.   ?    The possessors of labour power
20. Who said ‘All that is solid melts into air’?:
    1.   ?    Lenin
    2.   ?    Marx
    3.   ?    Parsons
    4.   ?    Weber