MCCONNELL SOCY 1000- EXAM 2 | 105 QUESTIONS |
WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
What was the social, economic, and political organization of the Premodern
world? Answer - Feudalism
Tönnies saw that the contract represents the characteristics of what kind of
society? Answer - Gesellschaft
What philosophy observes directly the laws by which things work? Answer -
Positivism
In what kind of society do individuals base their decisions on thought and
reason? Answer - Modern
When people in a society no longer believe in supernatural beings, there is
what? Answer - Secularism
Sociologists generally describe the world before the sixteenth century as what?
Answer - Premodern
Tönnies called premodern society what? Answer - Gemeinschaft
, Who developed the philosophy of positivism? Answer - Comte
What kind of society developed in northwestern Europe between the sixteenth
and nineteenth centuries? Answer - Modern
The following quote describes a kind of society Tönnies called what?
"[E]verybody is by himself and isolated, and there exists a condition of tension
against all others. Their spheres of activity are sharply separated, so that
everybody refuses to everyone else contact with and admittance to his sphere;
i.e., intrusions are regarded as hostile acts. . . . . Nobody wants to grant and
produce anything for another individual, nor will he be inclined to give
ungrudgingly to another individual, if it be not in exchange for a gift or labor
equivalent that he considers at least equal to what he has given." Answer -
Gesellschaft
What modern economy is now based on industry? Answer - Capitalism
T/F The population of modern society is more concentrated in urban centers.
Answer - True
T/F Relationships in Gesellschaft are more often short-term. Answer - True
T/F August Comte is often called the "father of sociology?" Answer - True
T/F Feudal society was industrial. Answer - False; AGRICULTURAL
T/F Thought and action in modern society follow authority Answer - False
What are seven major changes which came with the modern world? Answer -
1. Capitalism (people get rich by selling products on a market- capitalists get
WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.
What was the social, economic, and political organization of the Premodern
world? Answer - Feudalism
Tönnies saw that the contract represents the characteristics of what kind of
society? Answer - Gesellschaft
What philosophy observes directly the laws by which things work? Answer -
Positivism
In what kind of society do individuals base their decisions on thought and
reason? Answer - Modern
When people in a society no longer believe in supernatural beings, there is
what? Answer - Secularism
Sociologists generally describe the world before the sixteenth century as what?
Answer - Premodern
Tönnies called premodern society what? Answer - Gemeinschaft
, Who developed the philosophy of positivism? Answer - Comte
What kind of society developed in northwestern Europe between the sixteenth
and nineteenth centuries? Answer - Modern
The following quote describes a kind of society Tönnies called what?
"[E]verybody is by himself and isolated, and there exists a condition of tension
against all others. Their spheres of activity are sharply separated, so that
everybody refuses to everyone else contact with and admittance to his sphere;
i.e., intrusions are regarded as hostile acts. . . . . Nobody wants to grant and
produce anything for another individual, nor will he be inclined to give
ungrudgingly to another individual, if it be not in exchange for a gift or labor
equivalent that he considers at least equal to what he has given." Answer -
Gesellschaft
What modern economy is now based on industry? Answer - Capitalism
T/F The population of modern society is more concentrated in urban centers.
Answer - True
T/F Relationships in Gesellschaft are more often short-term. Answer - True
T/F August Comte is often called the "father of sociology?" Answer - True
T/F Feudal society was industrial. Answer - False; AGRICULTURAL
T/F Thought and action in modern society follow authority Answer - False
What are seven major changes which came with the modern world? Answer -
1. Capitalism (people get rich by selling products on a market- capitalists get
