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Questions

1. According to Durkheim, the purpose of holding something sacred is to foster social solidarity.

True

False

2. Durkheim believed that sociologists could not study the social world with objectivity.

True

False

3. According to Durkheim, social problems are social facts and are normal parts of society that do not need to be fixed unless the problem becomes abnormally high in occurrence.

True

False

4. Durkheim theorized that society is a system, made up of subsystems that, while interrelated, do work independently to contribution to the creation and maintenance of a society. For this reason, he is known as which of the following?

critical theorist

functionalist

none of these

conflict theorist

5. _______is the term that Durkheim uses to explain that members of a society are constrained by social forces such as social practices, institutions, norms of behavior, and belief structures?

social facts

collective representation

mechanical solidarity

social solidarity

6. Durkheim says that this characteristic of modern societies promotes social interdependence. What is that characteristic?

none of these

division of labor

urbanicity

traditional society

7. Durkheim describes suicide in terms of what societal characteristic?

all of these

social mobility

extent of social integration and regulation

exclusively the presence of mental illness

8. Durkheim labels every day, common place things within a society as ______?

sacred

commodities

collective conscience

profane

9. The interdependence that is cultivated through a highly specialized division of labor is called ______?

organic solidarity

sociology of knowledge

mechanical solidarity

collective representation

10. Durkheim theorized that this type of suicide came from an absence of norms, an absence of established expectations or rules of behavior.

altruistic

fatalistic

egoistic

anomic