Deck 2: A: Classical Social Theories

Question 1

Rousseau suggested that human beings are the only animal that is intrinsically imperfect and thus imperfectible.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Karl Marx would view our current university system as a functional and practical way to help young people fulfill their wants and desires.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Functionalist theorists offer no account of social change in their emphasis on stability and equilibrium.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Locke viewed people in their natural state as fearful of each other and in need of a government to protect them.

Question 5

Social theorist Hobbes argued that,at their most basic,human beings are motivated by self-interest and the pursuit of power.

Question 6

Verstehen refers to understanding the meaning of an action from an objective,impartial,"outsiders" point of view.

Question 7

Talcott Parson's AGIL typology was an important contribution to conflict theory as it outlined the mechanisms for maintaining social equilibrium.

Question 8

Enlightenment thinkers suggested that individuals had limited human agency due to divine intervention.

Question 9

Conservative reactionaries to the enlightenment felt that healthy competition between individuals was a good thing.

Question 10

Conflict theorists suggest that those in power should stay in power because it results in stability.

Question 11

The conservative reaction to the Enlightenment was based on the belief that society is not the product of individuals but,rather,an entity in itself.

Question 12

Charles Darwin coined the term survival of the fittest,which implies that the strong will survive.

Question 13

Herbert Spencer's critique of social welfare programs shows that he saw great utility in applying his sociological imagination.

Question 14

The idea that people are responsible for creating the social world around them was completely accepted by those who believed that human beings existed by virtue of God's will.

Question 15

For symbolic interactionists,human actors are the product of external and constraining social forces.