A key principle in the sociology of Emile Durkheim was:
a. agreement with Marx that violent revolution was the major source of social change
b. the view that sociology is the queen of sciences
c. that the rise of bureaucracy is critical to understanding social change
d. concerned with the changes in societies as they become larger
Question 2Slavery has been called the peculiar institution because:
a. it has existed even in the world's greatest civilizations
b. it has singled out blacks to the exclusion of other groups
c. it is extremely degrading and dehumanizing
d. there is no real place for it in the modern world
Question 3A central concept in the sociology of Karl Marx was the idea that:
a. bureaucracy would increasingly dominate the lives of individuals
b. social change results primarily from population growth
c. revolutions would arise in which workers would overthrow capitalism
d. variations in the organization of work and community life explained social change
Question 4The ownership of one racial, ethnic, or politically-determined group by another group that has complete control over it is termed:
a. expulsion
b. genocide
c. internal colonialism
d. slavery
Question 5The use of comparative data to assess the directions and consequences of social change was first used by
a. August Comte
b. Karl Marx
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Max Weber
Question 6The transfer of the Cherokee Indian Nation from the mountains of Appalachia to reservations in Oklahoma is an example of:
a. assimilation
b. expulsion
c. genocide
d. ghettoization
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