MCQ Bank
According to Marx, why are workers in capitalist society alienated from their productive activity?
- A) Their labor is owned and directed by capitalists
- B) They experience a strong sense of transformation through their work
- C) They have too much control over their work
- D) They work for the fulfillment of their own ideas
Which of the following is NOT a form of alienation?
- A) Alienation from their productive activity
- B) Alienation from the product of their labor
- C) Alienation from their species being
- D) Alienation from other workers
Which of the following is a complex arrangement of interconnected roles?
- A) Social system
- B) Cultural system
- C) Economic system
- D) Personality system
Morality is defined by the social forces of:
- A) Society
- B) State
- C) Culture
- D) Church
Exploitation is peculiar under capitalism because:
- A) It doesn't involve serfs and lords
- B) It is accomplished by the objective economic system
- C) It worsens over time
- D) It involves contradictory classes
Ordinary elements of everyday life are called:
- A) Belief
- B) Religion
- C) Sacred
- D) Profane
What was Marx's main interest in his social theory?
- A) Predicting the future of capitalism
- B) Understanding historical change
- C) Proposing political revolutions
- D) Analysing the structure of society
How does Marx describe the desire for more profit and surplus value for expansion in capitalism?
- A) A natural consequence
- B) A mechanism of social domination
- C) A random occurrence
- D) A temporary phenomenon
The resolution of conflict results in:
- A) Arbitration
- B) Consensus
- C) Conflict
- D) Authority
The word verstehen is derived from which language?
- A) French
- B) Turkish
- C) German
- D) English
According to Weber verstehen is a tool for which type of analysis?
- A) None of the given options
- B) Meso
- C) Macro
- D) Micro
Which of the following control of sanctions,enable the powerful to give orders and obtain what they want from powerless?
- A) Power
- B) Conflict
- C) Status
- D) Authority
The unavoidable increase in the number of proletariats is called as:
- A) Mechanization
- B) Proletarianization
- C) Exploitation
- D) Capitalization
Which of the following is defined and delimited by social norms backed by sanctions?
- A) Status
- B) Power
- C) Legitimacy
- D) Authority