Introducing Western Sociologists

Sociology is sometimes called the child of the _________

• Age of Change

• Age of Evolution

• Age of Revolution

• Age of Growth

Three revolutions paved the way for the emergence of sociology: __________

• the Russian revolution; the French Revolution; and the Industrial Revolution

• the Enlightenment, or the scientific revolution; the French Revolution; and the Russian Revolution

• the Enlightenment, or the scientific revolution; the Russian Revolution; and the Industrial Revolution

• The Enlightenment or the scientific revolution; the French Revolution; and the Industrial Revolution

Western Europe saw the emergence of radically new ways of thinking about the world. Refered to as ‘_______________’, these new philosophies established the human being at the centre of the universe, and rational thought as the central feature of the human being

• The Enlightenment

• The French Revolution

• The Russian Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution

The ______________ (1789) announced the arrival of political sovereignty at the level of individuals as well as nation-states.

• Industrial Revolution

• Enlightenment

• French Revolution

• Russian Revolution

__________ had two major aspects. The first was the systematic application of science and technology to industrial production, particularly the invention of new machines and the harnessing of new sources of power. Secondly, it also evolved new ways of organising labour and markets on a scale larger than anything in the past.

• Industrial revolution

• Enlightenment

• French Revolution

• Russian Revolution

______________ argued that human society had progressed through different stages. These were: primitive communism, slavery, feudalism and capitalism.

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkhiem

• Max Weber

• August Comte

Marx’s conception of the economy was based on the notion of __________.

• Mode of conflict

• Mode of economy

• Mode of evolution

• Mode of production

_____________ refer to all the means or factors of production such as land, labour, technology, sources of energy

• Production relations

• Productive forces

• Productive means

• Production modes

For conflict to occur it is necessary for proletariats to become __________ of their class interests and identities, and therefore also of their rivals’ interests and identities.

• Objectively unconscious

• Objectively conscious

• Subjectively conscious

• Subjectively unconscious

In the absence of Class Consciousness, Workers suffer from __________, in which they can not recognize their oppression.

• False Consciousness

• False Unconsciousness

• Subjective Consciousness

• Subjective Unconsciousness