Deck 7: Conflict and Cooperation: Alienation and Equality

Question 1

A _________ view of society implies widespread discord, the seriousness of which ranges from minor disputes to wars and revolutions.

A) conflict
B) rational
C) consensus
D) structural

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which theorists consider the distribution of the income and wealth to be primary source of conflict within Western societies?

A) conflict theorists
B) rational theorists
C) consensus theorists
D) structural theorists

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who contended that conflict will always exist regardless of the social or economic nature of society?

A) Max Weber
B) Georg Hegel
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Karl Marx

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which theorists are aware that conflicts often arise in social life, but stress that most are temporary, and can be and are solved within the framework of shared fundamental values by a neutral legal system?

A) conflict theorists
B) rational theorists
C) consensus theorists
D) structural theorists

Question 5

Weber thought that ________ denotes economic power and is non-social or "barely social" because it is instrumental in orientation and lacks any sense of shared social belonging.

A) status
B) party
C) class
D) both a and c

Question 6

Who viewed society as composed of multiple temporary as well as semi-permanent alliances of self-interested individuals that coalesce and dissolve as their interests wax and wane?

A) Max Weber
B) Søren Kierkegaard
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Question 7

____________ was an individualist who viewed alienation as the result of individuals being too engaged with the whole, too assimilated into the community, and too concerned with its conformity demands.

A) Max Weber
B) Søren Kierkegaard
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Question 8

____________ view of alienation was that it was a material condition that could only be alleviated by a socialist mode of production that would allow humans to realize their human essence.

A) Max Weber's
B) Søren Kierkegaard's
C) Immanuel Kant's
D) Karl Marx's

Question 9

Who felt that once capitalism created abundance, we could slay the golden goose, change the division of labor, abolish class divisions and inequality, and still continue to enjoy economic and material progress?

A) Max Weber
B) Søren Kierkegaard
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Question 10

Who believed that capitalism provided opportunities to develop charisma because "it fosters entrepreneurship, the mother of charisma"?

A) Max Weber
B) Georg Hegel
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Question 11

____________recognized that people have different abilities, but in his society they would not be granted license to benefit from them.

A) Max Weber
B) Georg Hegel
C) Immanuel Kant
D) Karl Marx

Question 12

According to the text, ___________ knew enough about human nature that he would never trust an intellectual elite convinced that they alone have the truth and the right, indeed the obligation, to coerce the rest of us into conformity.

A) Plato
B) Kant
C) Aristotle
D) none of the above

Question 13

Weber felt that social life had nothing to do with the pursuit of social power.

Question 14

Marx believed that wage labor thus quite literally de-humanizes human beings by taking from them their creative advantage over other animals-robbing them of the species being and reducing them to the level of animals.

Question 15

In his last work, Laws, Plato recognized that the state he had envisioned in the Republic was an impossibility given human nature, although he continued to see it as the ideal state.