Loaded Questions 2/6/23 - Social Science
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Hey everyone, and happy Monday! Sorry for a slight hiatus, I worked 70 hours in the last week on a thing that did not succeed, but we march on despite. Today we’ve got some social science questions, and hope you enjoy!
1. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America" after coming to America along with Gustave de Beaumont to inspect what type of institution?
2. "Too much change in too short a period of time" is a definition of what title concept, the subject of a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler?
3. What alliterative phrase that describes purchases made for a desire of social visibility was coined in the Thorstein Veblen work "The Theory of the Leisure Class"?
4. "Settlements and the church's duty" is an 1896 work by what woman, who co-founded Chicago's Hull House with Jane Addams?
5. What is the title subject of Raymond Aron's 1955 social work "The Opium of the Intellectuals"?
6. The Dobu, Pueblo, and Kwakiutl are discussed in what 1934 anthropological work by Ruth Benedict, discussing topics including Nietzschean concepts?
7. What system completes the 1955 work by Peter Blau "Dynamics in ___"? Max Weber likened this system to an iron cage.
8. A select number of Black people can make change if given the right opportunities is core to what essay by W.E.B. Du Bois?
9. What Jewish-German sociologist founded figurational sociology and discussed concepts like table manners and other etiquette in the work "The Civilising Process"?
10. What two countries are compared in the 1968 Clifford Geertz work "Islam Observed"?
11. What relationship does anthropologist Marcell Mauss have to Emile Durkheim?
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1. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America" after coming to America along with Gustave de Beaumont to inspect what type of institution?
Prisons
2. "Too much change in too short a period of time" is a definition of what title concept, the subject of a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler?
Future Shock
3. What alliterative phrase that describes purchases made for a desire of social visibility was coined in the Thorstein Veblen work "The Theory of the Leisure Class"?
Conspicuous consumption
4. "Settlements and the church's duty" is an 1896 work by what woman, who co-founded Chicago's Hull House with Jane Addams?
Ellen Gates Starr
5. What is the title subject of Raymond Aron's 1955 social work "The Opium of the Intellectuals"?
Marxism
6. The Dobu, Pueblo, and Kwakiutl are discussed in what 1934 anthropological work by Ruth Benedict, discussing topics including Nietzschean concepts?
Patterns of Culture
7. What system completes the 1955 work by Peter Blau "Dynamics in ___"? Max Weber likened this system to an iron cage.
Bureaucracy
8. A select number of Black people can make change if given the right opportunities is core to what essay by W.E.B. Du Bois?
The Talented Tenth
9. What Jewish-German sociologist founded figurational sociology and discussed concepts like table manners and other etiquette in the work "The Civilising Process"?
Norbert Elias
10. What two countries are compared in the 1968 Clifford Geertz work "Islam Observed"?
Indonesia, Morocco
11. What relationship does anthropologist Marcell Mauss have to Emile Durkheim?
His nephew