Identify the Thinker

Question 1

Believed that land was the sole source of income and wealth in society

Answer 1

Adam Smith

Question 2

There is natural order in society that harmonized the interests of individual citizens with the common interests of society

Answer 2

Adam Smith

Question 3

Lived and worked during the same century the Industrial Revolution occurred

Answer 3

Adam Smith

Question 4

His work was enriched by concrete facts and lessons of experience from the time of Ancient Greece and Rome and of Britain and France

Answer 4

Adam Smith

Question 5

His major approach and reason is the emphasis placed on science and social progress

Answer 5

Emile Durkheim

Question 6

Emphasized that groups are more than the sum of their parts. He wanted to shift the focus away from the individual to the collective

Answer 6

Emile Durkheim

Question 7

Focused more on his views of society and eventually rejected the individualist doctrines

Answer 7

Emile Durkheim

Question 8

For him, the society and the individual are distinct things. Hence, they can be examined as independent reality

Answer 8

Emile Durkheim

Question 9

Theory of Rent and expanded on the theory of value

Answer 9

David Ricardo

Question 10

Examined such issues as price, supply, demand, and foreign trade

Answer 10

David Ricardo

Question 11

Believed that history had meaning and that history moved in a set pattern toward a known goal

Answer 11

Karl Marx

Question 12

He was interested in widening the gap between the rich and poor in society, a gap that could be trace to the exploitative nature of the economic system

Answer 12

Karl Marx

Question 13

The right approach to studying man’s existence is materialism

Answer 13

Karl Marx

Question 14

Pointed out that social existence of man determines their consciousness

Answer 14

Karl Marx

Question 15

Communism as the end of history is equivalent to the final synthesis

Answer 15

Karl Marx

Question 16

Society can be changed only by revolutionizing the economic base

Answer 16

Karl Marx

Question 17

To change the system, we should attack the economic base or the material condition of our lives

Answer 17

Karl Marx

Question 18

He meant the application of systematic and precise modes of calculation and available means in the pursuit of specific goals and ends

Answer 18

Max Weber

Question 19

Used the concept of ideal type in studying political power and types of legitimate authority

Answer 19

Max Weber

Question 20

Weber had in mind a legal rational form of domination described as eliminating all personal, irrational, and emotional elements from administration

Answer 20

Max Weber

Question 21

Noted that bureaucratization is also linked to the concentration of the means of administration

Answer 21

Max Weber

Question 22

Argues that bureaucracy is the major source of authority in modern societies

Answer 22

Max Weber

Question 23

Took his ‘materialist’ account of the formation of classes and the development of society to be concerned with ultimate economic causes

Answer 23

Friedrich Engels

Question 24

science is important for socialists in terms of a system of knowledge

Answer 24

Friedrich Engels

Question 25

science is important for socialists in terms of technology and industry

Answer 25

Karl Marx