Chapter 4 - Introducing Western Sociologists - Important Questions and Answers

List of Questions and Answers

1. Marx's conception of economy was based on ____________.
a) Cultivation
b) Feudalism
c) Communism
d) Production
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Ans: d) Production

2. Mechanical solidarity is founded on the similarity of it's : _________________.
a) Individual members
b) Leaders and followers
c) None of the above
d) Groups and all members
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Ans: a) Individual members

3. Mode of production are ____________.
a) Communism
b) Slavery
c) Feudalism
d) All of the above
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Ans: d) All of the above

4. ___________ refers to all the means or factors of production such as land, labour, technology etc.
a) Productive forces
b) Production relations
c) Property relations
d) Economic relations
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Ans: a) Productive forces

5. Who was a proponent of class struggle?
a) Emile Durkheim
b) Karl Marx
c) Max Weber
d) Adolf Hitler
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Ans: b) Karl Marx

6. Sociology is sometimes called the child of the_____________.
a) Age of revolution
b) End of revolution
c) Industrial revolution
d) French Revolution
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Ans: a) Age of revolution

7. The three revolutions which passed the way for the emergence of sociology are:
a) The Russian Revolution, the American Revolution, the Vietnamese Revolution
b) The Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
c) The Scientific Revolution, the French Revolution and the Glorious Revolution
d) All the revolutions mentioned in the above three parts.
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Ans: b) The Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution

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