Question: Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because______________?

• 1. only women can write from a feminist perspective
• 2. other theoretical perspectives have not researched women
• 3. they emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
• 4. men and women view the and world in different ways

Question: Which of the following is not an example of a manufactured risk ?

• 1. genetic modification of crops
• 2. volcanic eruptions
• 3. global warming
• 4. the threat of nuclear war

Question: Which perspective does not come under the umbrella of interactionism ?

• 1. ethnomethodology
• 2. symbolic interactionism
• 3. feminism
• 4. phenomenology

Question: Talcott Parsons,s structural functionalism attempted to tackle ?

• 1. the problem of class conflict
• 2. the problem of economic restructuring
• 3. the problem of social welfare
• 4. the problem of social order

Question: Which of the following is not a mode of production ?

• 1. feudalism
• 2. communism
• 3. capitalism
• 4. liberalism

Question: Which one of the following is the odd one out _______________ ?

• 1. George Herbert Mead
• 2. Antonio Gramsci
• 3. Erving Goffman
• 4. Howard Becker

Question: Max Weber,s pioneering work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is an example of______________?

• 1. Macro-level analysis
• 2. micro-level analysis
• 3. resurgent fundamentalism
• 4. the interactionist approach to religion

Question: Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because_______________?

• 1. only women can write from a feminist perspective
• 2. other theoretical perspectives have not researched women
• 3. they emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
• 4. men and women view the world in different ways

Question: The writings of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim are examples of___________?

• 1. cyclical theory
• 2. unilinear theory
• 3. multilinear theory
• 4. conflict theory

Question: The conflict perspective would note that____________?

• 1. Physicians serve as gatekeepers for the sick role either verifying a patient’s condition as illness or designating the patient as recovered.
• 2. Patients play an active role in health care by failing to follow a physician’s advice
• 3. Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits dumping unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World countries.
• 4. The designation healthy or ill generally involves social definition by others