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Question 1

“All truths are ideologically based, all truths ultimatly reflect the interest and biases of social groups” whose words are this?

Answer 1

Karl Mannheim

Question 2

Who Wrote the book “The Social system” and in what year?

Answer 2

Talcort Parson (1951)

Question 3

Who held the view that society is a moral entity?

Answer 3

Emile Durkheim

Question 4

Karl Marx was inspired by the dialectical method of

Answer 4

Hegel

Question 5

Who is the author of ‘Political Philosophy’ that had significantly influenced the French
revolution?

Answer 5

Jean-JacquesRousseau

Question 6

The period of enlightenment is also known as

Answer 6

Age of reasoning

Question 7

In which year did the French revolution take place?

Answer 7

1789

Question 8

What are the three stages argued by Comte that knowledge pass through?

Answer 8

Theological – metaphysical –positive

Question 9

Who postulated the theory of social Darwinism?

Answer 9

Herbert Spencer

Question 10

One of the major concept in social darwinism

Answer 10

Survival of the fittest

Question 11

Who coined the term ‘symbolic interactionism’?

Answer 11

Herbert Blumer

Question 12

Who is the founder of symbolic interactionism?

Answer 12

George Herbert Mead

Question 13

Who is known as the founder of conflict theory?

Answer 13

Karl Marx

Question 14

Who believed that society is a complex system of interrelated and interdependent parts
that work together to maintain stability?

Answer 14

Emile Durkheim

Question 15

Auguste Comte believed that human societies can evolve only in a

Answer 15

Uni-linear way

Question 16

The type of suicide occurring due to excess of social regulation is called

Answer 16

Fatalistic suicide

Question 17

The type of altruistic suicide in which society imposes an explicit duty on individuals to
take their own life but lacking specific coercive pressure from the community is known as

Answer 17

Obligatory altruistic suicide

Question 18

is at the opposite pole of social integration to altruistic suicide

Answer 18

Egoistic suicide

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Altruistic suicide

Question 20

The concept of alienation is developed by?

Answer 20

Karl Marx

Question 21

A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is authored by

Answer 21

Karl Marx

Question 22

The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 was written by

Answer 22

Karl Marx

Question 23

Das Kapital was written in the year

Answer 23

1867

Question 24

Who is regarded as the founding father of functionalist analysis within sociology?

Answer 24

Durkheim

Question 25

The Course of Positive Philosophy published in how many volumes

Answer 25

6

Question 26

Who said that society is a ‘reality sui generis?’

Answer 26

Emile Durkheim

Question 27

According to Durkheim the central characteristic of religion was

Answer 27

Sacred-profane dichotomy

Question 28

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is written by

Answer 28

Emile Durkheim

Question 29

Who argued that the society and living organisms have similarities in structure and function?

Answer 29

Herbert Spencer

Question 30

‘The Man Versus The State’ is written by

Answer 30

Herbert Spencer

Question 31

‘Social statics’ is written by

Answer 31

Herbert Spencer (1851)

Question 32

Who coined the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ in the course of social evolution?

Answer 32

Herbert Spencer

Question 33

‘Positive Polity” is written by

Answer 33

Auguste Comte

Question 34

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written by who? and published?

Answer 34

Mary Wollstonecraft
1792