SOCY 151: Modern Social Theory

Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and classic social thought.

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Question 1

Durkheim's concept of social facts refers to what?

External and coercive patterns that shape individual behavior
Private dreams with no social context
Only biological reflexes
A firm's marginal cost curve

Question 2

Marx's historical materialism emphasizes which force in social change?

Material production, class relations, and conflict
Only individual personality traits
Random weather patterns alone
The shape of legal footnotes

Question 3

Weber's legal-rational authority is based primarily on what?

Impersonal rules and offices
Personal devotion to a prophet only
Ancient custom only
Market price controls

Question 4

Anomie in Durkheim is most closely linked to what condition?

Normlessness or weakened social regulation
Perfect social integration
A chemical bond
A balanced budget

Question 5

Adam Smith's invisible hand is commonly used to describe what?

Unintended social coordination through self-interested exchange
A supernatural ruler of markets
The abolition of all specialization
A laboratory technique for DNA

Question 6

Weber's class, status, and party distinction shows what?

Power and stratification have multiple dimensions
Only income matters in every social hierarchy
Politics has no relation to social order
All authority is identical

Question 7

Marx's alienation describes what kind of condition?

Workers become estranged from labor, product, others, and human potential
Consumers gain perfect information
Judges lack jurisdiction
Cells lose their membranes

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