Quiz 👥 Sociology
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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