Match the following lists : Select the correct answer from the codes given below :List – I
(Concepts)List – II
(Authors)a. Breaching Experiment
b. Life World
c. Dramaturgy
d. Social Construction i. Erving Goffman
ii. P. Berger and J. Luckmann
iii. H. Garfinkel
iv. Alfred Schutz
Sociology Concepts and Authors Matching
This question involves matching key sociological concepts from List I with the scholars credited with developing them in List II.
Concept-Author Associations
Here is the correct matching based on established sociological theories:
- a. Breaching Experiment is associated with iii. H. Garfinkel. Garfinkel's ethnomethodology utilized breaching experiments to examine underlying social norms.
- b. Life World (Lebenswelt) is a concept developed by iv. Alfred Schutz, focusing on the everyday, taken-for-granted reality we experience.
- c. Dramaturgy was introduced by i. Erving Goffman, who viewed social interaction as analogous to theatrical performance.
- d. Social Construction is a core concept in the work of ii. P. Berger and J. Luckmann, particularly in their book "The Social Construction of Reality".
Correct Code Identification
Based on the associations above, the correct code is determined as follows:
- a corresponds to iii
- b corresponds to iv
- c corresponds to i
- d corresponds to ii
Therefore, the correct code is a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii.
Important Questions from Sociological Thinkers, Sociological Traditions
Ethnomethodology is concerned with -
A. The study of ordinary people's method for making sense of and creating order in everyday life.
B. When people talk or act, they are constantly engaged in interpreting what is going on around them.
C. There is an inherent relationship between talk and action.
D. The study of social phenomena by using highly structured interviews of a very large sample size.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
Which of the following is true of Edward Said's Orientalism?
(A) It was published in 1979.
(B) Utilises the concept of discursive formulation as argued by Foucault.
(C) He has taken up the detailed analysis of imaginative geography and representation of the Orient.
(D) It is one of the foundational texts of Postcolonial theory.
(E) It puts to use Barthes' concept of 'death of the author'.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- The theoretical paradigm of functionalism is anchored in the idea that the maintenance of social cohesion, order and stability rests on one of the following........
- Who among the following sociologist made a lecture entitled ' soul and culture' in 1917?
He saw man as Homo duplex - as body, desire and appetite and also as socialized personality.
'He'- refers to _______________ .
