Contemporary Social Theories
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1. _________is a device used by the dominantclass to exclude the subordinate classes.
2. What is the central historical field addressed by the archeological method?
3. Students who have fewer opportunities to succeed in school are likely to have lesser
4. The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic Interactionist theory teaches that:
5. The Marxist critique of power in capitalist societies...
6. From the symbolic interactionist perspective, each person's interpretation or definition of a given situation becomes a(n) __________ from that person's viewpoint
7. Jefrey C Alexander is a __________
8. Foucault summarizes the current shifts in historical studies as a new 'interrogation' of what?
9. According to Habermas, the system is becoming increasingly ___________ by delinguistified media.
10. Which is not one of the forms of historical unity that Foucault rejects?
11. In his lectures at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo in the 1300s, ____________ devoted considerable attention to social institutions such as politics and the economy.
12. According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual
13. Durkheim defined social facts as:
14. Michelle owns a regional manufacturing company. She has a warehouse, nine trucks, and employs 50 people. What are the warehouses and trucks examples of?
15. Who’s theory is considered as ‘deconstructionism’?
16. Which perspective in Sociology deals with ‘The Social System’?
17. From which period is Michel Foucault?
18. Which one of the following is an example of achieved status?
19. Totalitarian regimes typically depend...
20. According to Foucault self-discipline creates
21. The main motive of the bourgeoisie class according to Karl Marx:
22. Who has written ‘presentation of self’ and given the concept of ‘enactment of roles’?
23. Typically, Marxist structuralists argue that...
24. According to Auguste Comte, groups, societies, sciences, and individuals all go through the following three stages:
25. According to Giddens, intentional actions produce: