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Among early American sociologists, _______ was the best known of the classical sociological theorists. |
| | A) | Marx |
| | B) | Weber |
| | C) | Durkheim |
| | D) | Simmel |
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Georg Simmel is best known as a(n): |
| | A) | macrosociologist. |
| | B) | microsociologist. |
| | C) | ethnomethodologist. |
| | D) | pragmatist. |
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Simmel was a friend and colleague of: |
| | A) | Karl Marx. |
| | B) | Sigmund Freud. |
| | C) | Emile Durkheim. |
| | D) | Max Weber. |
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Which of the following was NOT one of Simmel's basic concerns? |
| | A) | the psychological components of social life |
| | B) | the sociological components of interpersonal relationships |
| | C) | the evolution of social facts |
| | D) | the structure of the social and cultural "spirit" of his times |
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Fashion invites both ___________ and ___________. |
| | A) | individualism; conformity |
| | B) | individualism; creativity |
| | C) | imitation; conformity |
| | D) | conflict; consensus |
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Art, science, philosophy, and technology are all examples of ____________ culture. |
| | A) | subjective |
| | B) | objective |
| | C) | individual |
| | D) | high |
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More-life is characterized by: |
| | A) | a creative ability to constantly produce sets of objects that transcend them. |
| | B) | objects that come to stand in opposition to the forces that produced them. |
| | C) | the perception of reality by actors in subjective social positions. |
| | D) | the innate ability to calculate the value of any object in a social field. |
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At times Simmel equated society with: |
| | A) | objective culture. |
| | B) | subjective culture. |
| | C) | social interactions. |
| | D) | individual psychology. |
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According to Simmel, the sociologist's task is to: |
| | A) | give a detailed map of the features of social reality. |
| | B) | devise testable hypotheses from social reality. |
| | C) | impose a limited number of forms on social reality so that it may be better analyzed. |
| | D) | diagnose the pathologies of modern society and propose solutions. |
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According to Simmel, the _______ is likely to develop an independent group structure. |
| | A) | monad |
| | B) | dyad |
| | C) | triad |
| | D) | pentad |
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What affect does a large group have on an individual? |
| | A) | Membership in a large group is likely to threaten individual freedom. |
| | B) | Membership in a large group frees a person from the tight control of small groups. |
| | C) | Membership in a large group enhances the individual's social options. |
| | D) | Membership in a large group frees the individual but threatens individuality. |
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In Simmel's view, people produce culture: |
| | A) | and, therefore, have the ability to shape the cultural realm. |
| | B) | but tend not to understand the social value of the cultural realm. |
| | C) | but are incapable of fully grasping the meaning of the cultural realm. |
| | D) | but the cultural realm comes to have a life of its own. |
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In which of his works does Simmel discuss the relationship between money and value? |
| | A) | The Philosophy of Money |
| | B) | The Metropolis and Mental Life |
| | C) | The Collected Essays of Georg Simmel |
| | D) | A Theory of Value |
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Simmel saw the significance of ______________ declining as money transactions become an increasingly important part of society and as reified structures expand. |
| | A) | social interaction |
| | B) | objective culture |
| | C) | the individual |
| | D) | rationality |
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The money economy creates increasingly __________ relations among people. |
| | A) | informal |
| | B) | impersonal |
| | C) | emotional |
| | D) | valuable |
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The __________ way of life that comes with the money economy stands in contrast to earlier methods of living in which people believed in a number of eternal verities. |
| | A) | fragmentary |
| | B) | mercantilist |
| | C) | relativistic |
| | D) | heirarchical |
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___________ is defined as the condition in which one person has the intention of hiding something while the other person is seeking to reveal something that is hidden. |
| | A) | Confidence |
| | B) | Confidentiality |
| | C) | Surprise |
| | D) | Secrecy |
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According to Simmel, we have a series of different __________ based on such things as common intellectual pursuits, religion, and shared experiences. |
| | A) | confidences |
| | B) | friendships |
| | C) | acquaintances |
| | D) | social roles |
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What is the logical opposite of secrecy? |
| | A) | forthrightness |
| | B) | betrayal |
| | C) | verbosity |
| | D) | communicability |
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Today, Simmel's work is regarded as: |
| | A) | prescient. |
| | B) | antiquated. |
| | C) | ideological. |
| | D) | fragmentary. |
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Instead of Weber's image of an "iron cage" from which there is no escape, Simmel had a view of the future closer to Marx's revolutionary optimism. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Individual culture is the capacity of the actor to produce, absorb, and control the elements of objective culture. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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The stranger is a type of actor who is simultaneously too close and too far. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Simmel, even in the most oppressive form of domination, subordinates have at least some degree of personal freedom. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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In essence Simmel believed that structures like the state, the clan, the city, and the trade union turn out to be crystallizations of social interaction, even though they may attain autonomy and permanency and confront the individual as if they were alien powers. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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According to Simmel, the small town was characterized by a blasé and reserved attitude, whereas the modern city is characterized by a greater emotionality that matches the creativity of urban life. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Simmel saw the significance of the individual declining as money transactions become an increasingly important part of society and as reified structures expand. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Simmel thought that in the impersonal relationships characteristic of modern objectified society, confidence as a form of interaction is becoming increasingly rare. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Simmel associates the secret with the decline of religious morality in modern society. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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Next to Weber, Simmel is the most systematic of the classical thinkers. |
| | A) | true |
| | B) | false |
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