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- Q1
A ritual that strengthens collective conscience and social solidarity, even when its belief content is not empirically verifiable, best reflects whose understanding of religion?
Émile DurkheimMax weber
Karl MarxClifford Geertz30s - Q2
A sociologist is studying the effect of religious practices on voting behavior. She distributes a structured questionnaire to 3,000 respondents across India and uses statistical software to identify correlations. Which methodology is she following?
Critical Methodology
Phenomenology
Interpretivism
Positivism
30s - Q3
While researching tribal displacement, a sociologist lives in a forest village for six months, participating in rituals and recording the community's own understanding of “development.” Her aim is to give voice to the tribal perspective. This reflects:
Structural Functionalism
Interpretivism
Critical Methodology
Positivism
30s - Q4
A researcher collaborates with domestic workers’ unions to document their exploitation and use the findings to advocate for new labor policies. The study’s goal is not just to understand but to change social conditions. This reflects:
Critical research methodology
Positivist methodology
Interpretivist methodology
Ethnomethodological approach
30s - Q5
After a major economic downturn, several middle-class investors commit suicide due to abrupt financial losses and the collapse of their life goals. Durkheim would most likely view these suicides as:
Altruistic
Anomic
Fatalistic
Egoistic
30s - Q6
Weber’s concept of “disenchantment of the world” refers to:
Increasing dominance of rationality and calculationRise of secular ethics in socialismDecline of religion due to capitalismReplacement of faith by superstition30s - Q7
An environmental activist refuses to use plastic despite inconvenience, because she believes it is morally wrong to pollute. According to Weber, her action most likely to be:
Value-rational
Traditional
Affectual
Instrumentally rational
30s - Q8
A scholar constructs an ideal type of “traditional authority,” defined by personal loyalty, sacred customs, and hereditary rule. She then uses this model to assess monarchies in different cultures. What is she doing according to Weber?
Conducting value-free causal explanation
Establishing universal political truths
Using an ideal type for comparative understanding
Predicting political collapse
30s - Q9
A sociologist defines an "ideal type" of a social media influencer as someone who gains followers through authenticity, personal branding, and constant content production. When comparing real influencers, she finds some rely on ghostwriters and fake engagement. What does this deviation illustrate?
That the model must be statistically corrected
That influencers are irrational
The failure of Weber’s method
The gap between real-life cases and the ideal type model
30s - Q10
The continued emergence of New Religious Movements (NRMs) most directly challenges which classical assumption in sociology?
That religion mainly reflects the economic base of society
That modernization leads to the gradual decline of religion in public and private life
That religion is necessarily rooted in tradition and collective ritualThat religion primarily functions to maintain social solidarity
30s - Q11
Students in a school are trained to follow strict routines, memorize content, and are evaluated by standardized tests. Critical thinking or creativity is not encouraged. This is an example of
Rational-legal efficiency
Value-neutral education
The iron cage in the education system
Cultural capital reproduction
30s - Q12
A person is denied a welfare benefit because one document is outdated. The clerk refuses to help, citing rules. Which feature of the iron cage is shown here?
Personal bias
impersonality
Traditional paternalism
Charismatic decision-making
30s - Q13
Despite universal adult franchise, political power remains concentrated among a small group of party leaders, industrialists, and media owners.
Marxist theory of the state
Elite theory of power
Functionalist theory of politics
Pluralist theory of democracy30s - Q14Which of the following situations best reflects Marx’s concept of class conflict in the context of today’s gig economy?
A digital platform offers incentives to both consumers and workers to boost engagement.
Tech startup owners collaborate to create a union for top executives.
freelancer negotiates higher pay with multiple clients using a popular digital platform.
Ride-share drivers protest app-based companies for better wages and employment benefits.
30s - Q15Which of the following best explains Frank’s concept of the “development of underdevelopment”?
Development and underdevelopment are produced simultaneously within capitalism
Traditional societies resist change
Industrialisation automatically reduces inequality
Underdevelopment is a stage before development
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