Sociology 101 Fill in the Blank Summer Final Exam Directions: This 50 question exam covers Chapters 1 through 15 and is due no later than noon Friday‚ 7/29. Each question is worth 3 points for a total of 150 points for this exam. There could be as many as 3 words necessary for the answer. The answer will be counted incorrect if all words are not exact and spelled correctly. This is an open book exam‚ but please do not share answers with your classmates. Remember that the integrity of the learning
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uncomfortable‚ for they see it as coming close to justifying the inequalities in sociologists. 4. Define social class‚ describe its various components‚ and discuss the debate between different theorist over those components. Social class is according to Weber‚ a large group of people who rank close to one another in property‚ power and prestige According to Marx‚ one of two groups; Capitalists who own the means of production or workers who sell their labor 5. Differentiate between wealth‚ power‚ and
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conservative force. Weber argues that religious beliefs contributed to major social change- specifically the emergence of modern capitalism in Northern Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Modern capitalism differs from capitalism as it is based on systematic‚ efficient and a rational pursuit of profit and profit for its own sake rather than consumption. Weber calls this the spirit of capitalism. Calvinism is a form of protestant that was formed during the reformation. Weber argues that it is the
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If recently asked what had been the most important event along with the industrial revolution during 18th and 19th centuries‚ people in the west should immediately replied; that is the emergence of bureaucracy of which Marx Weber had been known as the father. However‚ after the existence of his concept on bureaucracy and its central role in bringing a great impact on the way people lived and were organized; people started asking whether Weber’s ideas continue to form the basis for organization and
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A TOPIC REVIEW ON INDUSTRIAL LOCATION MODEL BY ALFRED WEBER. Geography despite being defined as a science it has a vast area of concern‚ whereby some of these areas touch the economic grounds a field which others identify not as a science. In geography Spatial science is the field that holds some of the economic aspects this is so as it looks at the economic functions of space. Krugman (1991:p6) defines spatial science as a geographical science that is concerned with the organization of things according
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Tutorial time: 1pm-2pm Tutor:Ms Bei en Zou Student name: Shinong(Sharon) Cai Student number: 387348 Topic:In no more then 500 words‚ write a short account‚ description‚ or discussion of Max Webber‚ “ Confucianism and Puritanism‚” In Chapter eight of “The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism‚” Max Webber makes a comparison of the eastern philosophy of Confucianism with the western religion of Puritanism. He makes the connection between the how Confucianism has shaped China historically
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became a merchant instead‚ much like Robinson himself. The sociological concept of Protestant Work Ethic is strongly visible along the lines of the novel. A German philosopher cited amongst Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx as the founders of sociology- Max Weber - develops that concept in 1904/05 suggesting that the Protestant way conjured a code of everyday practices that as a result put Protestant countries ahead of Catholic ones in the matter of gathering and making use of capital. Northern European countries
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# What is the main differences between a sociological approach and a common sense approach? Sociology refers to the study on society and the world we live today‚ we may often see ourselves as a free agent‚ however‚ we are often influenced by the things surround us‚ such as the clothes we wear‚ the lifestyle we choose or the country we live. Sociologists try to understand human actions‚ social patterns and social structures; they are interested in what human actions are influenced by our interactions
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issue in numerous political campaigns. Others have defended the existence of bureaucracies. The German sociologist Max Weber argued that bureaucracy constitutes the most efficient and rational way in which human activity can be organized‚ and that systematic processes and organized hierarchies were necessary to maintain order‚ maximize efficiency and eliminate favoritism. But even Weber saw bureaucracy as a threat to individual freedom‚ in which the increasing bureaucratization of human life traps
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Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind‚ character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense‚ education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge‚ skills and values from one generation to another. In sociology we have various schools of thoughts or theories and each of these have their own view on the impact of sociology on “life chances” Functionalist one of the “theories” of sociology
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