Brainstorming Session # 1
Quiz by Nishat Singh
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- Q1
Which of the following is a feature of modernity?
Religious customs
Individualism
Patriarchy
Subsistence economy
60s - Q2
Which of the following was a counter enlightenment scholar?
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Smith
Rousseau
Auguste Comte
45s - Q3
Which of the following traditional social structures were challenged by French Revolution & Industrial revolution?
Patriarchy, Religion, and Joint family
Individualism, meritocracy, and equality
Gender equality, scientific temper, and nuclear family
Democracy and citizenship
60s - Q4
According to Marxist school of thought, the French revolution is regarded as "Bourgeouis revolution" mainly because
Industrial classes were overthrown by the working class
Monarchy was overthrown by the third estate
monarchy was replaced by landed aristocracy
landed aristocracy was replaced by the Bourgeouisie
60s - Q5
Which of the following explains unemployment through "Marxist sociological imagination"?
Unemployment is unintended consequence of the ever increasing pursuit of capitalist class to gain profit
Unemployment has direct relation with levels of education
Unemployment is a natural outcome of market forces like recession
Unemployed individuals have been the innovators of tomorrow
60s - Q6
Which of the following is NOT associated with Positivism?
Positivism believes in monocausal explanation of social phenomenon
Structures regulate individuals and therefore we have a patterned behavio of individuals in society
Positivism can help us find laws of social world and predict the social hazards
Positivism can help us understand the meaning and motive behind individual actions
60s - Q7
Who among the following is NOT a positivist?
Durkheim
Auguste Comte
Marx
Max Weber
45s - Q8
Complete Value freedom is not possible in social sciences research since Values may enter the research at the the time of the selection of topic. Who among the following proposed this view?
Alvin Gouldner
Gomm
Max Weber
Gunnar Myrdal
45s - Q9
Positivism is different from non positivism on many fronts. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Structure vs agency
Macro versus Micro view
Marxism vs Functionalism
Value freedom vs value neutrality
45s - Q10
Social order is an illusion and does not follow any pattern or a law. Who among the following would support this view?
Max Weber
Comte
Durkheim
Garfinkel
45s - Q11
It is the principle drawn from positivism that researcher should remain distanced from what they study. The above statement qualifies a terms. identify that one from the below:
Objectivity
Reflexivity
Subjectivity
Ethical neutrality
45s - Q12
What is regarded as beauty by one may be regarded as racism by another. This implies
Social world is highly patterned
Social world consist of two opposite views only
Social world has predefined laws
Social world cannot be studied objectively
45s - Q13
Epistemology based on 'falsifiability' and 'deductive reasoning' is associated with:
Positivism
Post-positivism
Non-Positivism
Anti-positivism
45s - Q14
Durkheim's research suggested that
There seemed to be higher rates of suicide in times of peace than in times of war & revolution
Civilians were more likely to take their lives than soldiers
Suicide is a solitary act, unrelated to group life.
Catholics had much higher suicide rate than protestants
45s - Q15
Sociologist has to engage in a process of Verstehen because
Action to which actors attach a subjective meaning is the subject matter of sociology
Action to which actors attach both objective and subjective meaning is the subject matter of sociology
All the above
Action to which actors attach an objective meaning is the subject of sociology
60s