SOCA03Y3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antonio Gramsci, Xenophobia, Social Inequality
Sample Questions: Multiple Choice Questions
Which of the following is not a factor that influences social inequality in Canada?
a. Geographic location
b. Age
c. Visible majority status
d. Gender
Savvy Airways is holding a recruitment session to hire more flight attendants. Today, is
the recruitment session for female flight attendants. The managers are first evaluating
the candidates posture, size, height, body shape, facial features, accent and voice and
then if they are satisfied, they look at the candidates grades and recommendations. This
act of judging the candidates on looks and size is an example of:
a. Racism
b. Direct institutional discrimination
c. Xenophobia
d. Indirect institutional discrimination
Who coined the term, “Sociological Imagination”?
a. C. Wright Mills
b. Karl Marx
c. Antonio Gramsci
d. Max Weber
Mills referred to people who are unable or unwilling to see the social world as it truly
exists as __________
a. General
b. Cheerful Robots
c. Particular
Which of these Theorists takes a Micro approach
a. Blumer
b. Durkheim
c. Weber
d. Marx
C.W.Mill’s notion of the “quality of mind” refers to _______.
a. An individual's ability to understand their problems.
b. An individual's ability to view personal circumstance within a wider
scope of social context.
c. An individual unwilling to see the social world as it truly exists.
d. The ability to look at unique events and recognize the larger factors
involved.
August Comte created the “Law of 3 stages” which define how advanced of the mind
created 3 different societies. Which stage explained the world and human society as an
expression of God’s will.
a. Metaphysical
b. Theological
c. Positive
d. Theoretical
Which one of these theorists viewed people as responsible and accountable for society
the they created?
a. John Locke
b. Charles de Monstequieu
c. Karl Marx
d. Thomas Hobbes
Who first used the term Tabula Rasa
a. Locke
b. Montesquieu
c. Rousseau
d. Durkhiem
Karl Marx’s theory of alienation describes:
a. The difference between what workers are paid and the wealth they create
for the owner.
b. The things that society values and aspires to once it’s material needs are
met.
c. The relationship between the worker and owner.
d. The process by which workers lack connection to what they
produce.
The term double consciousness, coined by Du Bois, describes:
a. The divided identify experienced by Black Americans.
b. The self-image we develop through the cue we receive from others.
c. Recognizing oppression, collective action to change it.
d. State of normlessness that results from lack of clear goals and may result
in suicide.
What are the two components that Gramsci divided the superstructure of Marx’s model
of base/superstructure model?
a. Domination and Hegemony
b. State and Civil society
c. Control and consent
d. Church and the state
A population as explained by conflict theory:
a. Internalizes ideas of ruling class
b. Fights the ideas of the ruling class
c. Makes the ideas of the ruling class
Dorothy Smith argues that:
a. Women have been left out of the means of production
b. Women are the means of production
c. Women have been left out of knowledge production
d. Women’s power is in their domestic labour and social reproduction
The term ‘discourse’ defines:
a. The social process by which some practices and ways of living are
normal.
b. The means by which we become motivated to produce particular realities.
c. The system of meaning that governs how we think, act and speak
about and issue or thing.
d. How to go about gaining power
______ is known as the ideologies and practices of colonizers (Britain, France,
Germany and Portugal), whereas the effects of these ideologies on a region is referred
to as ____ which are associated with _____ theory
a. Colonialism, Orientalism, and Post-Colonial
b. Orientalism, Colonialism, and Post-Colonial
c. Colonialism, Imperialism, and Post-Colonial
d. Imperialism, Colonialism, and Post-Colonial
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Which of the following is not a factor that influences social inequality in canada: geographic location, age, visible majority status, gender. Savvy airways is holding a recruitment session to hire more flight attendants. Today, is the recruitment session for female flight attendants. The managers are first evaluating the candidates posture, size, height, body shape, facial features, accent and voice and then if they are satisfied, they look at the candidates grades and recommendations. This act of judging the candidates on looks and size is an example of: racism, direct institutional discrimination, xenophobia, indirect institutional discrimination. Who coined the term, sociological imagination : c. wright mills, karl marx, antonio gramsci, max weber. Mills referred to people who are unable or unwilling to see the social world as it truly exists as _________: general, cheerful robots, particular. Which of these theorists takes a micro approach: blumer, durkheim, weber, marx.
