SOC 371 Exam (Contemporary Theories of Society) | Q & A
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SOC 371 Exam (Contemporary Theories of Society) | Q & A According to Émile Durkheim, dynamic density refers or relates to ______. the number of people in society and their frequency of interaction According to Karl Marx, surplus value should go to the workers. True According to Max Weber, charis...
According to Émile Durkheim, dynamic density refers or relates to ______.
the number of people in society and their frequency of interaction
According to Karl Marx, surplus value should go to the workers.
True
According to Max Weber, charismatic authority structures have the most potential to
become revolutionary.
True
According to Max Weber, formal rationality is unique to the Western world with the
coming of the industrial era.
True
According to Max Weber, which of these played a key role in the rise of rationalization in
the West?
religious ideas
Alienation, according to Karl Marx, can be solved by paying workers a subsistence
wage.
False
Behaviorism is a study largely associated with the biology of behavior.
False
Émile Durkheim believed that increases of anomic suicide could be caused by both
positive and negative social changes.
True
Emile Durkheim believed that the subject matter of sociology was the economy.
False
For Karl Marx, which of these is a prerequisite to revolution?
class consciousness
In a mechanical type of society, the collective consciousness is most likely to affect
which of these groups?
everyone in the society
In the shift or evolution from mechanical to organic solidarity, Émile Durkheim argued
that morality ______.
changes
, Karl Marx believed that the capitalists could achieve class consciousness, but the
proletariat could not.
False
Karl Marx devoted the bulk of his work to explaining how capitalism would transition into
communism.
False
Karl Marx saw capitalism as an important system because it allowed humans to be very
creative and expressive in their labor.
False
Karl Marx's concept of ______ refers to how capitalism perverts human labor, thereby
turning human potential against itself.
Alienation
Max Weber argued that ______ authority is based on agreed upon rules and
procedures.
rational-legal
Societies with mechanical solidarity have a stronger collective conscience than those
held together with organic solidarity.
True
For ______ money is far more the driver of economic alienation. For ______ it is labor,
the factory and commodification.
Simmel, Marx
The assumption that "social solidarity" alone can improve health outcomes ignores
other factors.For Instance the quality of relationships is always paramount, and
participation alone does not necessarily translate into acceptance, trust, or reciprocity.
True
According to Georg Simmel, objective culture changes in many ways over time. Which
of these is not one of those changes?
Individual culture expands.
According to Georg Simmel, when we are ______ we maintain as much secrecy as is
possible, while still revealing enough to maintain the relationship.
Acquaintances
According to Georg Simmel, which of the following changes to a group size brings about
a fundamentally new character?
from two to three people
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