Theorizing Social Structure I
Israelite women are allowed to enter the Court of Israelites.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE
In which work did Friedrich Nietzsche advocate for a critique of the values of our values?
A. Genealogy of Morals
B. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
C. Gay Science
D. None of the above
A. Genealogy of Morals
Georg Simmel’s concept of Sociological Imagination were part of his general concern with the relationships between the individual and the systems of which the individual is a member.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE (Simmel’s Concept of the Stranger)
Emile Durkheim is the nominal founder of sociology.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE (The answer is Auguste Comte)
Globalization describes the growth and the factors that interfere with social solidarity.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE
Pompey entered the Holy of Holies and Crassus plundered the temple treasury.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
What is the name of the person who attempted a regicide in Foucault’s Discipline and Punish?
A. Damian
B. Damieane
C. Damiens
D. Damiane
C. Damiens
The model for Simmel’s concept of the Stranger is the Jewish outsider.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE (Jewish trader)
________ is a qualitative method for collecting data used in the social sciences. Data are collected through participant observation and interviews
A. Ethology
B. Ethnography
C. Ethnomethodology
D. None of the Above
B. Ethnography
Ecological Wisdom means “Rejecting the technocratic objectification of everything for the sake of profit”.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE (the definition is for Culture of Encounter)
It is an interrelationship comprised of laws, rules, organizations, and the government in which social beings navigate.
A. Social Environments
B. Institutional environments
C. Sociological Environments
D. None of the Above
B. Institutional environments
Who was the British prime minister who believed that there is no such thing as society?
A. Winston Churchill
B. Margaret Thatcher
C. Boris Johnson
D. None of the Above
B. Margaret Thatcher
The key theme in Sociological Imagination is the importance of understanding the relationship between biography and social structure.
TRUE or FALSE
FALSE (biography and history)
For this thinker Society was conceptualized as a type of organism and was to be viewed through the prism of biological conceptions of structure and function
A. Emile Durkheim
B. Aguste Comte
C. Herbert Spencer
D. None of the above
B. Aguste Comte
The domestic church is the first school of social virtues.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE
Which statement is/are true about the social hierarchy?
Statement 1: The most common forms are based on power and privilege.
Statement 2: Social hierarchies can influence our lives in a positive and pejorative
A. Statement 1
B. Statement 2
C. Both Statements
D. None of the Above
B. Statement 2
Which statement/s best explains the concept of Herkunft?
Statement 1: Herkunft is a critique that starts with the mind and ends with one’s consciousness
Statement 2: Herkunft is a kind of critique against discourses advocating that the body is over the mind
A. Statement 2
B. Statement 1
C. Both Statements
D. None of the above
D. None of the above
What did Karl Marx call the lowest stratum of the working class?
A. Lumpenproletariat
B. Lumproletariat
C. Lunpenproletariat
D. None of the above
A. Lumpenproletariat
Organismic analogy is best understood through which statement/s:
Statement 1: Society can be likened to an organism because of their similar characteristics
Statement 2: Society can be likened to an organism because both are imagined concepts
A. Statement 1
B. Statement 2
C. Both Statements
D. None of the Above
A. Statement 1
A way to understand the message of Fratelli Tutti is that it goes beyond the remark “Am I my brother’s keeper (Gen 4:9). Who is the biblical character that made such remark?
Cain
Which statement is/are true about the Glass Ceiling Metaphor?
Statement 1: The Glass Ceiling Metaphor is a phenomenon continued by advocates of the Feminist movement.
Statement 2: The Glass Ceiling Metaphor explains the unfair treatment of women and minorities in an organizational setting.
A. Statement 2
B. Statement 1
C. Both Statements
D. None of the Above
B. Statement 1
Which statement/s best describes the concept, “Ideas have consequences”
Statement 1: Theorizing poverty does not contribute to solving the problems that go along with it.
Statement 2: A thinker should be careful of his or her ideas as these can have drastic consequences if acted upon.
A. Statement 2
B. Statement 1
C. Both Statements
D. None of the above
A. Statement 2 (Statement 1 has implication of the concept between theory and praxis)
What is Marx’s main critique regarding the rabble proletariat?
A. They work together with the upper and middle classes
B. They start and instigate unplanned revolutions
C. They spread false information and intrigue about proletarian revolt
D. None of the above
C. They spread false information and intrigue about proletarian revolt
Which statement/s best describes the main theme of Emile Durkheim’s sociological thought?
Statement 1: The main concern of Durkheim is how to promote and maintain social solidarity.
Statement 2: The main concern of Durkheim is to debunk Organismic Analogy
A. Statement 2
B. Statement 1
C. Both Statements
D. None of the Above
B. Statement 1
In the offices of the Vatican, Congregations are now called: ______
Dicastery