Most of today's sociologists agree with Auguste Comte's claim that ________
a. no society has reached the scientific stage of history.
b. human behavior is not patterned and orderly.
c. sociology should be based on religion.
d. science has an important place in sociology.
Question 2Thomas Hobbes's idea that society reflects a selfish human nature illustrates the thinking common at which of Comte's historical stages?
a. Theological stage
b. Metaphysical stage
c. Scientific stage
d. Post-scientific stage
Question 3Sociologists cannot identify laws of society that allow us to precisely predict the behavior of an individual because ________
a. human behavior may be patterned, but it is also spontaneous.
b. sociology is still very young.
c. no sociologist ever tried to discover such laws.
d. no sociologist would wish to predict human behavior.
Question 4According to Auguste Comte, the type of thinking favored by people such as Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, becomes common in a society at which stage of societal development?
a. Theological stage
b. Metaphysical stage
c. Scientific stage
d. Post-scientific stage
Question 5When did sociology become established as an academic discipline in the United States?
a. During the Middle Ages
b. About 1800
c. About 1900
d. About 2000
Question 6________ is a way of understanding the world based on science.
a. Tradition
b. Positivism
c. Metaphysics
d. Free will
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