Deck 3: The Sociological Theories of Durkheim and Spencer

Question 1

Anomie refers to

A)A construct, or a made-up model that serves as a measuring rod against which actual cases can be evaluated.
B)The study of small groups.
C)A condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals
D)A set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behaviour

Answer 1

A condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals

Question 2

Durkheim introduced the concept of 'anomie' in his study of

A)Suicide
B)Social control
C)Social progress
D)Modernization

Answer 2

Suicide

Question 3

The Rules of Sociological Method is a famous work of

A)Herbert Spencer
B)Auguste Comte
C)Talcott Parsons
D)Emile Durkheim

Answer 3

Emile Durkheim

Question 4

According to Durkheim, anomie is caused by

A)Division of labour and rapid social change from traditional to modern society
B)Too much pressure from the state
C)When poverty is eradicated from a society
D)High educational attainment of a group in a society

Question 5

Who introduced the term 'anomie' in the study of society

A)Herbert Spencer
B)Auguste Comte
C)Max Weber
D)Emile Durkheim

Question 6

Durkheim argued that the task of sociology should be the study of___

A)Social progress
B)Social facts
C)Anomie
D)Consciousness

Question 7

According to Durkheim, the simplest and most basic form of religion is

A)Sacred
B)Animism
C)Profane
D)Totemism

Question 8

Suicide was published in the year

A)1897
B)1987
C)1798
D)1879

Question 9

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is written by

A)Karl Marx
B)Emile Durkheim
C)Auguste Comte
D)Max Weber

Question 10

In his work 'The Elementary Forms of Religious Life', Durkheim attributes the development of religion

A)To the development of anomie
B)To the emotional security attained through communal living
C)To the higher rates of suicide
D)All of the above

Question 11

The Rules of Sociological Method was published in the year

A)1895
B)1795
C)1869
D)1879

Question 12

Emile Durkheim was born in the year

A)1868
B)1857
C)1856
D)1858

Question 13

Emile Durkheim died in the year

A)1916
B)1918
C)1917
D)1919

Question 14

According to Emile Durkheim the central characteristic of religion was

A)Sacred-profane dichotomy
B)Life after death
C)Highly superstitious
D)Elimination of all forms of discrimination

Question 15

The term used by Durkheim to indicate the communal beliefs, morals and attitudes of a society

A)Collective morals
B)Collective consciousness
C)Collective behaviour
D)Collective conscience

Question 16

Who said that society is a 'reality sui generis?'

A)Auguste Comte
B)Herbert Spencer
C)Emile Durkheim
D)Max Webber

Question 17

According to Emile Durkheim, the collective ways of thinking, feeling and acting is known as

A)Social integration
B)Social solidarity
C)Social norms
D)Social facts

Question 18

According to Emile Durkheim, anomic suicide occurs when

A)A person is too much integrated with the society
B)A person feels disconnected from the society due to lack of social integration
C)A person feels totally detached from the society
D)A person feels extreme social regulation resulting in oppressive conditions

Question 19

They type of suicide resulting from too much social integration is known as

A)Anomic suicide
B)Fatalistic suicide
C)Egoistic suicide
D)Altruistic suicide

Question 20

___________ is at the opposite pole of social integration to altruistic suicide

A)Egoistic suicide
B)Anomic suicide
C)Fatalistic suicide
D)All of the above

Question 21

Which of the following is the most primitive society as propounded by Herbert Spencer?

A)Simple society
B)Compound society
C)Doubly compound society
D)Trebly compound society

Question 22

According to Herbert Spencer, evolution proceeds from

A)military society to compound society
B)industrial society to military society
C)military society to industrial society
D)compound society to military society

Question 23

Which of the following characteristic does not fit into Herbert Spencer's understanding of 'industrial society'?

A)Flexibility of occupation
B)Voluntary co-operation
C)State exist for the benefit of individual
D)Centralised structure of state

Question 24

Who postulated the theory of social Darwinism?

A)Herbert Spencer
B)Saint - Simon
C)Auguste Comte
D)Karl Marx

Question 25

Spencer study the evolution of society analogous to ________

A)Biological organism
B)Physics
C)Big Bang theory
D)None of the above