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What was the philosopher Edmund Husserl primarily interested in studying? |
| | A) | the transcendental id |
| | B) | consciousness |
| | C) | dreams |
| | D) | being and time |
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Who was the philosopher who influenced Alfred Schutz the most? |
| | A) | Max Weber |
| | B) | Karl Marx |
| | C) | Martin Heidegger |
| | D) | Edmund Husserl |
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The phenomenological method of bracketing involves: |
| | A) | immersing oneself in the natural attitude. |
| | B) | detaching oneself from the natural attitude. |
| | C) | dwelling on one's biographical situation. |
| | D) | extrapolating beyond the scope of the statistical data. |
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Which of the following is one of Schutz's criteria for constructing ideal types? |
| | A) | the postulate of relevance |
| | B) | the postulate of regulated improvisation |
| | C) | the postulate of infirmity |
| | D) | the postulate of bureaucracy |
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In Schutz's sociological theory, the world in which the mundane, or the taken-for-granted, takes place is known as the: |
| | A) | future world, or folgewelt. |
| | B) | past world, or vorwelt. |
| | C) | thirsty world, or bierwelt. |
| | D) | life-world, or lebenswelt . |
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the life-world? |
| | A) | the suspension of doubt regarding the existence of the world |
| | B) | wide-awakeness |
| | C) | intersubjectivity |
| | D) | bracketing of the natural attitude |
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Schutz's notion of the stock of knowledge consists of which of the following? |
| | A) | power, structure, and functions |
| | B) | knowledge of time, skills, and cultural-political practices |
| | C) | knowledge of typificiations, skills, and useful knowledge |
| | D) | knowledge of recipes, typifications, and space |
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According to Schutz, the interchangeability of standpoints means that: |
| | A) | all knowledge is absolute. |
| | B) | the umwelt is inaccessible to structural-functionalist inquiry. |
| | C) | if I stood in the place of others, I would see things the way others do. |
| | D) | the life-world is devoid of social interactions. |
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According to Schutz, the social distribution of knowledge refers to the fact that: |
| | A) | the knowledge that people have varies according to their location in social structure. |
| | B) | all knowledge in society is evenly distributed across social classes and status groups. |
| | C) | the natural attitude is spatially adjusted to temporal conjunctures across societies. |
| | D) | consciousness is a matter of differentially dispersed egoism of the first order. |
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Which of the following points to the intersubjectivity of knowledge? |
| | A) | double consciousness |
| | B) | the social distribution of knowledge |
| | C) | the double contingency of knowledge |
| | D) | the positivist determinacy of social laws |
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While Husserl was interested primarily in consciousness, Schutz was interested in: |
| | A) | class consciousness. |
| | B) | interoperability. |
| | C) | intersubjectivity. |
| | D) | interconnectivity. |
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Schutz's notion of the reciprocity of perspectives assumes that: |
| | A) | other people exist and objects are knowable by all. |
| | B) | intersubjectivity entails double consciousness of the life-world. |
| | C) | the transcendental ego is known in its reciprocity to all structures of double contingency. |
| | D) | knowledge is a durable contingency in the realm of double consciousness. |
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Which of the following best describes Schutz's umwelt? |
| | A) | the realm of the past |
| | B) | the realm of fantasy |
| | C) | the realm of the future |
| | D) | the realm of face-to-face relationships |
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According to Schutz, which of the following is defined by a high degree of intimacy? |
| | A) | they relations |
| | B) | class relations |
| | C) | state-society relations |
| | D) | we relations |
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Which of the following is NOT a level of the mitwelt? |
| | A) | physical artifacts produced by a person we have not met |
| | B) | groups that are so anonymous that we will never meet them |
| | C) | those whom we are on the way to meet |
| | D) | those with whom we are currently interacting |
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In Schutz's work, "they relations" are characterized by interaction with: |
| | A) | our friends. |
| | B) | impersonal contemporaries. |
| | C) | our consociates. |
| | D) | figures of authority. |
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According to Schutz, "because motives": |
| | A) | cannot be studied using scientific methods. |
| | B) | are actions taken to bring about some state of affairs. |
| | C) | can be studied retrospectively using scientific methods. |
| | D) | are Schutz's response to the doctrine of transubstantiation. |
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According to Schutz, "meanings" refer to how people determine what is important to them, whereas motives involve: |
| | A) | the reasons actors do what they do. |
| | B) | Schutz's equivalent of a theory of power. |
| | C) | the transcendence of the natural attitude. |
| | D) | one's relationship with the means of production. |
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Which of the following interests did Schutz share with Max Weber? |
| | A) | a concern for political sociology |
| | B) | a concern for general economic history |
| | C) | an interest in class conflict |
| | D) | an interest in social action |
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In Schutz's sociological theory, where do objective meaning contexts exist? |
| | A) | in the culture as a whole |
| | B) | in the independent mental construction of reality |
| | C) | in the minds of sociologists only |
| | D) | in Husserl's theory of fragmented multisubjectivity |
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Edmund Husserl was primarily interested in intersubjectivity. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Husserl argued for a scientific study of the basic structures of consciousness. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The stock of knowledge of the scientist is derived directly from the everyday world. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Alfred Schutz believed in a rigorous, scientific approach to subjective sociology. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Schutz's postulate of subjective interpretation is one criterion for the construction of ideal types. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Schutz argued that knowledge is intersubjective. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The umwelt involves interaction with impersonal contemporaries. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The mitwelt is the realm of face-to-face interaction. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Subjective meaning contexts exist in the culture as a whole, not the minds of actors. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Ritzer and Goodman maintain that Schutz was concerned with the dialectic of social action and social structure. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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