Multiple choice questions

1. Notions of power as a quantity are associated with:
   1.   ?    Michel Foucault
   2.   ?    Max Weber
   3.   ?    Billy Bremner
   4.   ?    Gloria Steinham
2. The three types of dominance (or ‘legitimate’ power) identified by Weber are:
   1.   ?    gas/ oil/ nuclear
   2.   ?    charismatic/ traditional/ rational legal
   3.   ?    charismatic/ traditional/ hegemonic
   4.   ?    quantity/ legitimacy/ everywhere
3. C. Wright Mills coined the term:
   1.   ?    bling bling
   2.   ?    Power/ Knowledge
   3.   ?    Power Elite
   4.   ?    Asymmetric warfare
4. Mills’ theory of power was conceived as a challenge to ideas of:
   1.   ?    Marxist theory
   2.   ?    Weberian theory
   3.   ?    Foucaludian theory
   4.   ?    Pluralist theory
5. Notions of power as a ‘micro-physics’ or as ‘productive’ come from:
   1.   ?    Michel Foucault
   2.   ?    Karl Marx
   3.   ?    Peter Lorimer
   4.   ?    Viola Klein
6. New ways of controlling and training people in the eighteenth century produced:
   1.   ?    Docile Bodies
   2.   ?    More efficient workers
   3.   ?    The conditions for revolution
   4.   ?    Gender Inequalities
7. Who described power as “the chance of a man or a number of men to realise their will even against the resistance of others”?
   1.   ?    Saskia Sassen
   2.   ?    Max Weber
   3.   ?    Mick Jones
   4.   ?    Karl Marx
8. How are power and poverty connected?
   1.   ?    Poor people don’t deserve power
   2.   ?    Poor people don’t need power
   3.   ?    Poor people are always the responsibility of the state
   4.   ?    Poor people lack power
9. Legitimate power today is generally assumed to be held by
   1.   ?    Military generals
   2.   ?    Empires
   3.   ?    Sovereign states
   4.   ?    Presidents
10. Foucault’s explanation of power does which of these things?
    1.   ?    Equates it always with repression
    2.   ?    Associates it always with sovereignty
    3.   ?    Assumes it is only present in some relationships
    4.   ?    None of these
11. Foucault’s account of power links it very closely with
    1.   ?    The military
    2.   ?    Knowledge
    3.   ?    The rich
    4.   ?    Land
12. Power, seen as a resource, is central to how
    1.   ?    Politics actually work
    2.   ?    Poverty
    3.   ?    Computers actually work
    4.   ?    None of these
13. Power is interwoven with the sociological theme(s) of
    1.   ?    Social and cultural patterns of stratification
    2.   ?    Patriarchal and racial dominance
    3.   ?    Well behaved communities and families
    4.   ?    The baby boomer population7
14. The ‘shadow powers’ that Nordstrom says influence nation states are
    1.   ?    The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
    2.   ?    Globally linked organised crime
    3.   ?    Undercover operatives of the Empire
    4.   ?    The global financial markets
15. Who writes about capillary power?
    1.   ?    Carolyn Nordstrom
    2.   ?    Dr Spock
    3.   ?    Michel Foucault
    4.   ?    Max Weber
16. Globalization processes challenge the monopoly of sovereign power by:
    1.   ?    Law
    2.   ?    Rulers
    3.   ?    Dictators
    4.   ?    The nation state
17. The power elite is made up of:
    1.   ?    Political interests
    2.   ?    Military interests
    3.   ?    Corporate interests
    4.   ?    All of these
18. Charismatic leaders have
    1.   ?    Fame
    2.   ?    Money
    3.   ?    Some special quality
    4.   ?    All of these
19. Who wrote 'Who Governs'?
    1.   ?    Robert Dahl
    2.   ?    C Wright Mills
    3.   ?    Tony Blair
    4.   ?    George W. Bush
20. Pluralist theory offers what kind of vision of power in politics?
    1.   ?    Optimistic
    2.   ?    Thrilling
    3.   ?    Depressing
    4.   ?    Impressive
21. Who describes network society and the network state?
    1.   ?    Castells
    2.   ?    Casteneda
    3.   ?    Latour
    4.   ?    Foucault