True or False


1	In Jurgen Habermas' ideal speech situation, only those with knowledge of and respect for the controlling ideology of a society should be allowed to participate.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Michel Foucault's study of discourse revealed to him a steady advancement of truth over superstition as time goes by.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	For structuralists like Ferdinand Saussure, the meaning of a sign (signifier) rests in its contrast with other signs that could be, but are not, present.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	Deconstruction attempts to find the essential meaning of a text from among the many possible meanings.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	For Jacques Derrida, the meaning of words is not stable.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Richard Rorty maintains that, even though each culture has its own constraints on inquiry (standards of rational discourse), there are universal constraints on inquiry that define the objective standpoint for everyone.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Claude Lévi Strauss abandoned Saussure's methods while conducting his ethnographic research.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Jacques Derrida followed the deconstructive method.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Michael Foucault wrote The History of Sexuality.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Jurgen Habermas' views were considered Marxist.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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