Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim Set 1

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This set of Sociological Theories Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim Set 1

Q1 | Anomie refers to
  • A construct, or a made-up model that serves as a measuring rod against which actual cases can be evaluated.
  • The study of small groups.
  • A condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals
  • A set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behaviour
Answer: A condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals
Q2 | Durkheim introduced the concept of ‘anomie’ in his study of
  • Suicide
  • Social control
  • Social progress
  • Modernization
Answer: Suicide
Q3 | The Rules of Sociological Method is a famous work of
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Auguste Comte
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Emile Durkheim
Answer: Emile Durkheim
Q4 | According to Durkheim, anomie is caused by
  • Division of labour and rapid social change from traditional to modern society
  • Too much pressure from the state
  • When poverty is eradicated from a society
  • High educational attainment of a group in a society
Answer: Division of labour and rapid social change from traditional to modern society
Q5 | Who introduced the term ‘anomie’ in the study of society
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Auguste Comte
  • Max Weber
  • Emile Durkheim
Answer: Emile Durkheim
Q6 | Durkheim argued that the task of sociology should be the study of___
  • Social progress
  • Social facts
  • Anomie
  • Consciousness
Answer: Social facts
Q7 | According to Durkheim, the simplest and most basic form of religion is
  • Sacred
  • Animism
  • Profane
  • Totemism
Answer: Totemism
Q8 | Suicide was published in the year
  • 1897
  • 1987
  • 1798
  • 1879
Answer: 1897
Q9 | The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is written by
  • Karl Marx
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Auguste Comte
  • Max Weber
Answer: Emile Durkheim
Q10 | In his work ‘The Elementary Forms of Religious Life’, Durkheim attributes the development of religion
  • To the development of anomie
  • To the emotional security attained through communal living
  • To the higher rates of suicide
  • All of the above
Answer: To the emotional security attained through communal living
Q11 | The Rules of Sociological Method was published in the year
  • 1895
  • 1795
  • 1869
  • 1879
Answer: 1895
Q12 | Emile Durkheim was born in the year
  • 1868
  • 1857
  • 1856
  • 1858
Answer: 1858
Q13 | Emile Durkheim died in the year
  • 1916
  • 1918
  • 1917
  • 1919
Answer: 1917
Q14 | According to Emile Durkheim the central characteristic of religion was
  • Sacred-profane dichotomy
  • Life after death
  • Highly superstitious
  • Elimination of all forms of discrimination
Answer: Sacred-profane dichotomy
Q15 | The term used by Durkheim to indicate the communal beliefs, morals and attitudes of a society
  • Collective morals
  • Collective consciousness
  • Collective behaviour
  • Collective conscience
Answer: Collective conscience
Q16 | Who said that society is a ‘reality sui generis?’
  • Auguste Comte
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Max Webber
Answer: Emile Durkheim
Q17 | According to Emile Durkheim, the collective ways of thinking, feeling and acting is known as
  • Social integration
  • Social solidarity
  • Social norms
  • Social facts
Answer: Social facts
Q18 | According to Emile Durkheim, anomic suicide occurs when
  • A person is too much integrated with the society
  • A person feels disconnected from the society due to lack of social integration
  • A person feels totally detached from the society
  • A person feels extreme social regulation resulting in oppressive conditions
Answer: A person feels disconnected from the society due to lack of social integration
Q19 | They type of suicide resulting from too much social integration is known as
  • Anomic suicide
  • Fatalistic suicide
  • Egoistic suicide
  • Altruistic suicide
Answer: Altruistic suicide
Q20 | ___________ is at the opposite pole of social integration to altruistic suicide
  • Egoistic suicide
  • Anomic suicide
  • Fatalistic suicide
  • All of the above
Answer: Egoistic suicide
Q21 | Which of the following is the most primitive society as propounded by Herbert Spencer?
  • Simple society
  • Compound society
  • Doubly compound society
  • Trebly compound society
Answer: Simple society
Q22 | According to Herbert Spencer, evolution proceeds from
  • military society to compound society
  • industrial society to military society
  • military society to industrial society
  • compound society to military society
Answer: military society to industrial society
Q23 | Which of the following characteristic does not fit into Herbert Spencer’s understanding of ‘industrial society’?
  • Flexibility of occupation
  • Voluntary co-operation
  • State exist for the benefit of individual
  • Centralised structure of state
Answer: Centralised structure of state
Q24 | Who postulated the theory of social Darwinism?
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Saint – Simon
  • Auguste Comte
  • Karl Marx
Answer: Herbert Spencer
Q25 | Spencer study the evolution of society analogous to ________
  • Biological organism
  • Physics
  • Big Bang theory
  • None of the above
Answer: Biological organism
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