The social thinker of the 19th century who predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution was ________.
A) Emile Durkheim
B) C. Wright Mills
C) Herbert Spencer
D) Karl Marx
Question 2The Wall Street Journal has declared that the three greatest modern thinkers were ________, ________, and ________.
A) Karl Marx; Sigmund Freud; Albert Einstein
B) Max Weber; B. F. Skinner; J. Edgar Hoover
C) Karl Marx; Louis Pasteur; Albert Einstein
D) Frank Lloyd Wright; Jonas Salk; Sigmund Freud
Question 3Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is ________.
A) class conflict
B) religion
C) family
D) education
Question 4Ethnocentrism is purely a negative trait with no redeeming qualities.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 5The theorist who is sometimes referred to as the second founder of sociology was ________.
A) Henri Saint Simon
B) Herbert Spencer
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Karl Marx
Question 6There is nothing natural about material or nonmaterial culture.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 7The term survival of the fittest, which is a principle part of the concept of social Darwinism, was coined by ________.
A) Charles Darwin
B) Talcott Parsons
C) Auguste Comte
D) Herbert Spencer
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