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Contemporary Social Theories
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Contemporary Social Theories
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1. Durkheim defined social facts as:
2. The term ‘epistemological break’ was introduced by
3. Which of the following reflect(s) objective divisions in the social structure, such as age groups, genders, and social classes?
4. Who wrote the book’ the structure of social action’
5. Dialectical conflict is proposed by ____________
6. Emile Durkheim believed that ___________ is not a necessary part of the modern world and that it could be reduced by ____________.
7. Which type of social change always refers to 'human happiness'?
8. Which term has two explicitly different meanings, one in the history of ideas and one in archeology?
9. Conflict sociologists view social change as:
10. Which of the theorists of Modernity sees the modern world as a 'juggernaut'?
11. What term can be defined as the 'act that produces a group of signs materially?
12. Name the social theorist who introduced the concepts of ‘contradiction and over determination’.
13. Early sociologists wanted to model sociology after the prestigious and influential disciplines of:
14. Michel Foucault is a
15. AndrewLinklater:
16. Definition of Situation is a concept developed by ____________________
17. Which of the following are the two aspects of structure identified by Giddens?
18. Which thinker is considered as a major influence on the development of neo-Marxian theory?
19. Members of which of the following variants of neo-Marxian theory are concerned with the 'micro-level' foundations of Marxian theory?
20. The concept of ‘The third way’ was developed by-----------------.
21. What is Stephen Lukes's classic definition of power?
22. Among the following who is known as the theorist of ideology.
23. What is Antonio Gramsci's view of power?
24. The quality of 'material repeatability' applies to what?
25. A physician wears a white lab coat and a stethoscope. The patient sees these as representing Knowledge and authority.