1. Brown’s synchronic implication of the organic
analogy was inherited from
(a) Comte and Merton
(b) Spencer and Durkheim
(c) Malinowski and Mills
(d) Marx and Webery
2. Malinowski considered magic as
(a) pseudoscience
(b) sui generis
(c) utopia
(d) euphoria
3. Parsons used _____ as the basic unit in the study of
the social system.
(a) role-value system
(b) status-role complex
(c) goal-attainment
(d) Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
4. Sociological imagination is the concept of being
able to
(a) think ourselves away
(b) think of no one
(c) think of others
(d) None of the above
5. The book, The Andaman Islanders : A Study in Social
Anthropology was written by
(a) R. K. Merton
(b) C. Wright Mills
(c) Talcott Parsons
(d) A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
6. Malinowski’s basic needs were
(a) bodily comforts
(b) wealth
(c) education
(d) religion
7. According to R. K. Merton, there are three criteria of
determining the membership of a group. Identify the
incorrect one.
(a) Determination of groups of interacting
individuals by others
(b) Frequency of interacting among the members
(c) ‘We feeling’
(d) Determination of the membership of group by
interacting individuals themselves
8. For _____, social system is an analytical conceptual
framework and not an empirical referent.
(a) Merton
(b) Mills
(c) Brown
(d) Parsons
9. Who worked among the Trobriand Islanders?
(a) Radcliffe-Brown
(b) B. K. Malinowski
(c) Talcott Parsons
(d) Merton
10. According to Mills, power resides exclusively in the
(a) economic domain
(b) political domain
(c) military domain
(d) All of the above
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1. (b) Spencer and Durkheim.
2. Radcliffe-Brown posited that the function of magic was to express the social importance of the desired event, while Malinowski regarded magic as directly and essentially concerned with the psychological needs of the individual.
4. Sociological imagination is the capacity to shift from one perspective to another. To have a sociological imagination, a person must be able to pull away from the situation and think from an alternative point of view.
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