What were Marx, Weber and Durkheim all trying to make sense of?

1. The fall of feudalism and the rise of capitalism
2. The rise of the British monarchy.
3. The end period of the Roman empire.
4. The fall of the Ottoman empire

Which item below describes what Marx believed brought about social change?

1. False Consciousness
2. A charismatic leader.
3. A comprehensive educational system.
4. Conflict

What is a key point that Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book Outliers, makes in the second part of his book

1. People who take the summers off are some of the most successful people on the planet.
2. Cultural beliefs and practices can have a powerful affect on how people who live in those cultures behave.
3. Hard working people who never take breaks are in grave danger of committing suicide.
4. Success and failure is all about luck and cultural beliefs and practices have nothing to do with it

Which item below describes the way in which Durkheim thought about suicide?

1. A sociologist has a legal and moral duty to prevent people from committing suicide.
2. People should have the right to commit suicide if they want to.
3. Most people who commit suicide are suffering from severe emotional disorders.
4. Social conditions can lead large numbers of people to commit suicide.

Which item below is true of Durkheim’s way of thinking?

1. Every answer to this question is correct.
2. He believed that most people living in modern day societies were brainwashed by crooked charismatic leaders.
3. He believed that primitive societies were held together by mechanical solidarity.
4. He believed that bureaucracies were stifling peoples’ creativity

Which item below is true of general sociological theory?

1. Shows how social forces affect human behavior.
2. Every answer to this question is correct.
3. Tackles and suggests solutions to social problems.
4. Describes the causes and processes of social and historical changes that occur in societies.

What is Malcolm Gladwell’s take on why pilots from certain countries are more likely to crash planes?

1. In certain countries, pilots aren’t trained properly and thus go onto crash their planes.
2. They had lower power distance communication styles and didn’t listen to the air traffic controllers that could help them out of a bad situation.
3. In certain countries, air traffic controllers aren’t trained very well, and they thus inadvertently induce pilots to crash their planes.
4. They have high power distance communications styles and were fearful of speaking disrespectfully to people they saw as their superiors (air traffic controllers) — even when something was drastically wrong. This prevented them from getting the help they needed when the plane was in trouble.

According to the book Outlers, which item below is true of the Kipp schools?

1. The kids go to school on Saturdays.
2. They attend schools for three weeks in July.
3. They have a longer school day than in traditional schools.
4. Every answer to this question is correct.

According the book Outliers, why do Wealthy kids have academic advantages over poor and working class kids.

1. They’re advantaged by what they learn when they’re not in school, especially during summer vacations.
2. Their parents have the money to bribe their teachers into raising their grades.
3. Their parents can buy their children’s way into the best schools.
4. Every answer to this question is correct.

According to Marx, in a ____________ society, human relationships are predicated upon the exchange of goods and people care about each other only insofar that they can maximize each other’s wealth.

1. Capitalist
2. Every answer to the question is correct because Marx believed that hoarding wealth was largely instinctual.
3. Feudal
4. Socialist

What religious sect did Weber feel brought about the rise of the capitalist economic system?

1. Calvinism
2. Catholicism
3. Judaism
4. Mormonism

According to Marx, which item below describes phase one of the capitalist economic system?

1. A social class system that consists of the petty bourgeoisie and the lumpenproletariat
2. A social class system that consists of proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
3. A social class system that consists of the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, the proletariat, and the lumpenproletariat.
4. A social class system where everyone is equal.

Which item below is true of Durkheim’s conception of Anomie?

1. People living in primitive societies tended to exist in a state of anomie.
2. Anomie is a term used to describe a society that is functioning at an optimal level.
3. Anomie is a term that refers to a society of people who are especially committed to the well being of their neighbors.
4. Anomie is a term used to describe a social condition in which there is a lack of moral rules / social norms.

How did Marx think workers developed class consciousness?

1. Through praxis / talking with each other.
2. When a charismatic leader convinces people that they need to revolt against their oppressive government.
3. When they listen to sermons put forth by members of the clergy.
4. When a society’s thieves and beggars begin to commit violent crimes.

As discussed in the book Outliers, what are the “Kipp Schools?”

1. A Catholic school in Boston
2. An set of experimental Public Schools across the United States.
3. A Jewish school in Israel.
4. A charter school in the city of Los Angeles.

Which item below best describes Marx’s way of thinking?

1. Individuals who live in societies that practice socialism have little to no self- esteem.
2. A person develops a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence by attaining lots of material goods.
3. A person develops a sense of self-esteem and self confidence by becoming proficient in some sort of activity e.g. art, music, carpentry, writing etcetera
4. People living in feudal societies had higher levels of self-esteem than did people living in hunting and gathering societies.

Which item below best describes Marx’s way of thinking?

1. When people buy into the ideology put forth by the bourgeoisie, in an attempt to keep them from revolting, they are operating under a state of false consciousness.
2. The mentally ill are the group of people who are mostly likely to succumb to false consciousness.
3. The petty bourgeoisie will never revolt against the bourgeoisie because they tend to believe everything the bourgeoisie tells them.
4. A society’s thieves are the group of people who are most likely to succumb to false consciousness.

According to Durkheim, what type of suicide is common among primitive peoples?

1. Egoistic.
2. Anomic
3. Fatalistic
4. Altruistic

Why does Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book Outliers, believe that people from Asian cultures do so well in math?

1. The cultural legacy of farming rice paddies prepared them for the exacting work that math requires.
2. Their mathematical abilities are based on the cultural legacy of cultivating lotus flowers.
3. Asian people have a genetic programmed to do well in math.
4. Their mathematical abilities corresponds with the philosophy of Wabi Sabi

Which item below best describes Marx’s way of thinking?

1. Every answer to this question is correct.
2. A society’s most prominent ideologies are the ideologies of the ruling class. (https://canvas.csun.edu/courses/59522/question_banks/247176#)
3. A society’s most prominent ideologies are crafted by the lumpenproletariat.
4. People who live in the Republic of Gilead have n prominent ideologies at all.

Which item below best describes Durkheim’s way of thinking about very strict and rigid moral rules.

1. Societies with very rigid moral rules always run smoothly.
2. Over-regulation drives people to despair and subsequently induces some of them to commit fatalistic suicide.
3. Societies with very rigid moral rules have very low suicide rates.
4. Societies with very rigid moral rules have very low crime rates because people are especially fearful of being punished for committing crimes.

Which item below is true of Marx’s way of thinking?

1. Marx believed that most people living in capitalist societies were alienated from the products they produced.
2. Marx believed that people living in capitalist societies were likely to commit egoistic suicide.
3. Marx believed that a powerful charismatic leader would prevent people from becoming brainwashed by the bourgeoisie.
4. Marx was very pessimistic about the future and thought the world would come to an end in the very near future.

According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book Outliers, which item below is not a major factor in how successful a person is?

1. A person’s cultural background.
2. A person’s social class background.
3. Hard Work!!!
4. Having a extremely high IQ

According to the book, Outliers, What are the Kipp school most famous for?

1. English and Writing
2. It’s incredibly high fees.
3. Mathematics
4. A mass shooting that occurred there in 2002.

Which item below is true of Durkheim’s way of thinking?

1. Societies are made up of cooperative units of people behaving in an organized fashion.
2. People who live together in societies cannot work together cooperatively unless they have guiding principles.
3. Every answer to this question is correct.
4. Moral rules which stipulate how to treat fellow humans are what make social life possible

According to Weber, what is an especially negative feature of capitalist societies?

1. Bureaucracies
2. Rampant Social Inequality
3. High Suicide Rates
4. A lack of morals.