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1. According to the conflict theory, conflict is created through:
2. According to the __________ perspective, existing theories have been unsuccessful in explaining social life in contemporary societies that are characterized by postindustrialization, consumerism, and global communications.
3. Who’s theory is considered as ‘deconstructionism’?
4. The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic Interactionist theory teaches that:
5. Justin Rosenberg argues:
6. Symbolic interactionalism related to ______________
7. Which one of the following is a quantitative method of social research?
8. Gramsci shifted the focus of Marxist analysis through which of the following ideas?
9. On Max Weber's classification, modern governments are increasingly dependent on...
10. _______ is the breakdown of the natural interconnection among people and between people and what they produce.
11. The ____________ was a period of intellectual development and change characterized by the belief that people could comprehend and control the universe by means of reason and empirical research.
12. Foucault's term 'strategies' refers to what aspect of a discourse?
13. The main motive of the bourgeoisie class according to Karl Marx:
14. According to Robert Cox, what is critical theory?
15. In contrast to the history of ideas, how does the archeological method approach the field of statements?
16. Name the sociologist who introduced the concept of ‘double hermeneutics’
17. When Karl Marx defined the proletariat and the bourgeoisie classes as:
18. What term can be defined as 'the units of meaning that grammar recognizes in a series of signs?
19. _______ refers to a setof acquired principles of thought, behaviourand taste thatgenerates social practicesand is particularly associated with a certainsocial class.
20. In much the same way that Marx felt that labor was alienated, _________________ felt that communication was alienated, or distorted.
21. On what basis can we analyze the ways in which science is ideological?
22. Who distinguished between instinct for workmanship and the drive for profit?
23. For the critical school, modern society was rational, but not:
24. .Among the following who was the exponent of ‘middle range theory’
25. ‘Duality of structure’ is a phrase that can be attributed to

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