Deck 13: Micro-Macro and Agency-Structure Integration

Question 1

Which classic theorist linked microscopic, metaphorical encasement in iron cage of macroscopic, formal rationality?
a. Karl Marx
b. Max Weber
c. George Simmel
d. Emile Durkheim

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which classic theorist linked microscopic individual and macroscopic culture(s)?

A) Karl Marx
B) Max Weber
C) George Simmel
D) Emile Durkheim

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following 20th-century theory or theories place overwhelming power and significance to the micro level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Symbolic interactionism
B) Ethnomethodology
C) Exchange Theory
D) Rational Choice Theory

Answer 3

A, B, C, D

Question 4

According to George Ritzer, which of the following exists at the macro-objective level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Norms and values
B) Society
C) Bureaucracy
D) Technology

Question 5

Which classic theorist linked microscopic alienation with macroscopic capitalism?

A) Karl Marx
B) Max Weber
C) George Simmel
D) Emile Durkheim

Question 6

Which of the following marks the micro pole of George Ritzer's objective-subjective continuum?

A) Material phenomena
B) Individual thought
C) World systems
D) Nonmaterial phenomena

Question 7

According to George Ritzer, which of the following exists at the macro-subjective level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Norms and values
B) Society
C) Bureaucracy
D) Technology

Question 8

Which of the following marks the macro pole of George Ritzer's macro-micro continuum?

A) Individual thought
B) Social class
C) Social structure
D) World systems

Question 9

Metatheoretical work examines the structures of _____.

A) personalities
B) societies
C) culture
D) sociological theories

Question 10

Which classic theorist linked macroscopic social facts with microscopic individual behaviors?

A) Karl Marx
B) Max Weber
C) George Simmel
D) Emile Durkheim

Question 11

According to George Ritzer, which of the following exists at the macro-subjective level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Social action and interaction
B) Society
C) Bureaucracy
D) Technology

Question 12

According to George Ritzer, which of the following exists at the micro-objective level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Norms and values
B) Action
C) Interaction
D) Mental processes

Question 13

Which of following 20th-century theory or theories place overwhelming power and significance to the macro level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Structural functionalism
B) Conflict Theory
C) Economic Determinist Neo-Marxian Theory
D) Symbolic interactionism

Question 14

Which of the following marks the micro pole of Georges Gurvitch's macro-micro continuum?

A) Forms of Sociality
B) Social Class
C) Social Structure
D) Global Structure

Question 15

Although seldom interpreted as such because of micro-macro extremism, which classic sociologist(s) originally linked microscopic and macroscopic theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Karl Marx
B) Max Weber
C) George Simmel
D) Emile Durkheim

Question 16

According to George Ritzer, which of the following exists at the micro-subjective level? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Norms and values
B) Action
C) Interaction
D) Mental processes

Question 17

Which of the following marks the macro pole of George Ritzer's objective-subjective continuum?

A) Material phenomena
B) Individual thought
C) World systems
D) Nonmaterial phenomena

Question 18

According to C. Wright Mills paradigm, _____ are personal or affect individual people.

A) micro-level troubles
B) macro-level troubles
C) micro-level issues
D) macro-level issues

Question 19

Which of the following marks the micro pole of George Ritzer's macro-micro continuum?

A) Individual thought
B) Social class
C) Social structure
D) World systems

Question 20

Which of the following marks the macro pole of Georges Gurvitch's macro-micro continuum?

A) Forms of sociality
B) Social class
C) Social structure
D) Global structure

Question 21

Which of the following can be classified as macro? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Conscious actors
B) Mindless or unthinking actors
C) Large-scale social structures
D) Collective or organization cultures

Question 22

Which of the following can be classified as an agent? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Agents
B) Collectives
C) Structures
D) Interactions

Question 23

Which part of Norbert Elias's history of manners is concerned with the civilizing of eating meals?

A) Behavior at the Table
B) Natural Functions
C) Blowing One's Nose
D) Sexual Relations

Question 24

According to Anthony Giddens, ______ exist through time and space as social phenomena take form in ways that shape human life.

A) structures
B) systems
C) agents
D) rules and resources

Question 25

Norbert Elias's concept of figuration emphasizes the importance of _____ in integrating the micro and macro levels.

A) Interactions
B) Interrelationships
C) Institutions
D) Social structures

Question 26

According to C. Wright Mills paradigm, _____ are public or affect large numbers of people.

A) micro-level troubles
B) macro-level troubles
C) micro-level issues
D) macro-level issues

Question 27

Which part of Norbert Elias's history of manners is concerned with the use of handkerchiefs and disposal of mucus?

A) Behavior at the Table
B) Natural Functions
C) Blowing One's Nose
D) Sexual Relations

Question 28

According to Norbert Elias's, a _____ investigation is focused on individuals' of the micro level.

A) psychogenetic
B) sociogenetic
C) psychological
D) sociological

Question 29

According to Jeffrey Alexander, which describes the problem of order at the macro level?

A) Internalized, individual nature
B) Instrumental, rational, conditional
C) Collective nature
D) Normative, nonrational, affective

Question 30

According to Anthony Giddens, ______ are properties that enable social phenomena to take form through structuration.

A) structures
B) systems
C) agents
D) rules and resources

Question 31

Which of the following can be classified as micro? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Conscious actors
B) Mindless or unthinking actors
C) Large-scale social structures
D) Collective or organization cultures

Question 32

According to Jeffrey Alexander, which describes the problem of action at the micro level?

A) Internalized, individual nature
B) Instrumental, rational, conditional
C) Collective nature
D) Normative, nonrational, affective

Question 33

According to Anthony Giddens, ______ are afforded a power to change the world through their actions and agency.

A) structures
B) systems
C) agents
D) rules and resources

Question 34

Which part of Norbert Elias's history of manners is concerned with the ways the bedroom became less and less of a public space?

A) Behavior at the Table
B) Natural Functions
C) Blowing One's Nose
D) Sexual Relations

Question 35

According to Jeffrey Alexander, which describes the problem of order at the micro level?

A) Internalized, individual nature
B) Instrumental, rational, conditional
C) Collective nature
D) Normative, nonrational, affective

Question 36

According to Jeffrey Alexander, which describes the problem of action at the macro level?

A) Internalized, individual nature
B) Instrumental, rational, conditional
C) Collective nature
D) Normative, nonrational, affective

Question 37

Which of the following is personal trouble related to credit cards. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Aggregate consumer debt
B) Delinquency and bankruptcy
C) National deficit
D) A life devoted toward paying of debt

Question 38

Which part of Norbert Elias's history of manners is concerned with the quiet passing of wind?

A) Behavior at the Table
B) Natural Functions
C) Blowing One's Nose
D) Sexual Relations

Question 39

Which of the following is public issue related to credit cards. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Aggregate consumer debt
B) Delinquency and bankruptcy
C) National deficit
D) A life devoted toward paying of debt

Question 40

According to Anthony Giddens, ______ manifest through reproduced practices.

A) structures
B) systems
C) agents
D) rules and resources

Question 41

According to Habermas, the ______ is the domain of formal rationality.

A) system
B) lifeworld
C) colonization of the lifeworld
D) habitus

Question 42

Which of the following critiques does Ian Craib outline against Anthony Giddens structuration theory?

A) The theory lack ontological depth.
B) The complexity is overly confusing to accurately apply.
C) The theory is overly critical of society.
D) The work leaves no room for the ambiguity of actual reality.

Question 43

According to Habermas, the ______ is the taking over of substantive rationality by formal rationality.

A) system
B) lifeworld
C) colonization of the lifeworld
D) habitus

Question 44

Which of the following critiques does Ian Craib outline against Anthony Giddens structuration theory?

A) Ontologically, the theory is too deep.
B) The theory is too simplistic to mesh with a complex world.
C) The theory is overly critical of society.
D) The work leaves no room for the ambiguity of actual reality.

Question 45

Although the terminology is slightly different, there are few if any differences between the integrative models offered by Jeffrey Alexander and George Ritzer.

Question 46

Agency and structure can refer to either micro-level or macro-level phenomena or to both.

Question 47

Which of the following research programs grew out of Anthony Giddens' structuration theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Institutions as they exist in time and space.
B) Changes in institutions over time and space.
C) How leaders intrude upon and alter social institutions.
D) How science as an institution changes the very world it studies.

Question 48

Which of the following critiques does Ian Craib outline against Anthony Giddens structuration theory?

A) Ontologically, the theory is too deep.
B) The complexity is overly confusing to accurately apply.
C) The theory lacks a means to critically analyze society.
D) The work leaves no room for the ambiguity of actual reality.

Question 49

C. Wright Mills uses George Ritzer's ideas about micro-level personal troubles and macro-level public issues to analyze credit cards.

Question 50

Both Georges Gurvitch and George Ritzer account for subjectivity and objectivity in their micro-macro integration.

Question 51

The micro-macro linkage and relating of agency and structure are similar metatheoretical movements happening on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Question 52

The European micro-macro linkage is a direct critique of the American emergence of agency and structure.

Question 53

Which of the following critiques does Ian Craib outline against Anthony Giddens structuration theory?

A) Ontologically, the theory is too deep.
B) The complexity is overly confusing to accurately apply.
C) The theory is overly critical of society.
D) The work is ambiguous and unclear.

Question 54

George Ritzer is more concerned with the dialectical relationships between his four levels of social analysis rather that the levels themselves.

Question 55

While some theorists focus on integrating micro and macro theories, others deal with the links between the micro and macro levels.

Question 56

Randall Collins reduced the importance of the macro in his radical microsociology.

Question 57

According to Habermas, the ______ is the domain of substantive rationality.

A) system
B) lifeworld
C) colonization of the lifeworld
D) habitus

Question 58

According to George Ritzer all micro and macro social phenomena both objective and subjective.

Question 59

Norbert Elias argues the process of civilization involved the throwing-off of monarchs and nobles.

Question 60

There is a dialectical relationship between personal troubles and public issues because each exacerbates the other.

Question 61

Ian Craib claims that Anthony Giddens work has become so central, that sociologists somehow must account for it in their own work.

Question 62

Anthony Giddens thinks that sociologists have historically underestimated the ways structures operate as constraints.

Question 63

The concept of practices was developed by theorists working to link agency and structure; but could this concept also be utilized to integrate the micro and macro?

Question 64

Norbert Elias argues the process of civilization entails a lengthening of interdependence chains via the encampment of monarchs and nobles.

Question 65

In giving agents the power to change the world, Anthony Giddens affords agency great power in his structuration theory.

Question 66

Discursive consciousness involves actions that cannot be described in words.

Question 67

Practical consciousness involves actions that cannot be described in words.

Question 68

Outline the differences across the Agency-Structure literature.

Question 69

Agency can refer to both micro-level actors and macro-level collective actions.

Question 70

According to Anthony Giddens every social scientific investigation involves relating action or agency to structure.

Question 71

According to Anthony Giddens, structure and agency are a duality; neither can exist without the other.

Question 72

Anthony Giddens claims the impacts of modernity are the most pressing social problem that is need of study.

Question 73

Anthony Giddens places greater emphasis on systems that emerge from intended rather than unintended actions.

Question 74

Compare and contrast the micro-macro integration efforts in the United States with the European efforts to develop the relationship between agency and structure.

Question 75

Systems encompass both agents and structures.

Question 76

Pierre Bourdieu hoped to bridge constructivism and structuralism rather than agency and structure.

Question 77

Time and space are crucial variables in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory.

Question 78

Both micro and macro social phenomena can be structured.

Question 79

George Ritzer reveals how credit cards create both personal troubles at the micro level and public issues at the macro level. Describe how a similar problem (or problems) is developing with the student loan crisis.