Chapter Quiz


1	Postindustrial society is characterized by all of the following except:
		A)	the dominance of professional and technical workers.
		B)	the transition from goods production to the provision of services.
		C)	the increasing importance of practical knowledge.
		D)	the fusion of science and innovation.


2	Which of the following groups holds the most power in an industrial society?
		A)	farmers
		B)	business people
		C)	the military
		D)	scientists


3	Which of the following statements would Michel Foucault most likely agree with?
		A)	Social history is characterized by ruptures and sudden reversals.
		B)	Social researchers should focus on finding the origins of social developments.
		C)	Subordinate groups are incapable of contesting power.
		D)	Society has become increasingly humane in the way that it punishes prisoners.


4	The concept of the carceral archipelago refers to the fact that:
		A)	all social settings are affected by the spread of disciplinary power.
		B)	disciplinary power is spread across social settings like a patchwork.
		C)	disciplinary power is decreasing across social settings.
		D)	disciplinary power does not affect social settings at all.


5	Zygmunt Bauman argues that the postmodern world is characterized by all of the following except:
		A)	complexity.
		B)	unpredictability.
		C)	neotribalism.
		D)	central goal-setting organizations.


6	The politics of _________________ is what Bauman calls the efforts of "tribes" to establish the importance of certain types of conduct in order that its members can constitute themselves.
		A)	certainty
		B)	fear
		C)	desire
		D)	examinations


7	What does Jean Baudrillard call the system of rules that helps us to understand what signs mean and how they relate to one another?
		A)	a simulation
		B)	a symbolic exchange
		C)	a hyperreality
		D)	a code


8	Which of the following statements is NOT a postmodern explanation of consumption?
		A)	We consume goods because we want to be different from other people.
		B)	We consume goods because we need them to survive.
		C)	Our relationships with consumer goods is replacing our relationships with other people.
		D)	We define ourselves more by the consumer goods we purchase than by our occupational status.


9	According to Baudrillard, as simulations in society increase:
		A)	symbolic exchanges decrease.
		B)	a code decreases in power.
		C)	production decreases.
		D)	the social world becomes increasingly enchanted.


10	Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the old means of consumption?
		A)	They were physical structures.
		B)	A face-to-face interaction existed between customers and workers.
		C)	Cash transactions were the norm of payment.
		D)	They created spectacles to attract consumers.


11	Which of the following theorists described the Parisian arcades as phantasmagoric?
		A)	Zygmunt Bauman
		B)	Jean Baudrillard
		C)	Walter Benjamin
		D)	Daniel Bell


12	Which of the following terms describes the idea that technology is being used to colonize the human body?
		A)	dromology
		B)	endocolonization
		C)	arachnophobia
		D)	symbolic exchange


13	Postmodern feminists believe that:
		A)	knowledge is completely objective.
		B)	gender can be deconstructed.
		C)	social scientists have the authority to define social reality for everyone.
		D)	essentialist and universal categories liberate people.


14	What is the disciplinary instrument of power that allows those in control to observe subordinates and judge what they are doing?
		A)	examination
		B)	normalizing judgement
		C)	endocolonization
		D)	implosion


15	Feminist theorists are more likely to ___________ postmodernism than to _____________ it.
		A)	celebrate / reject
		B)	embrace / question
		C)	question / embrace
		D)	ignore / understand


16	Foucault argues that the discourse on sexuality in the Victorian Era:
		A)	was increasingly repressed.
		B)	engendered more quantitative studies on sexuality.
		C)	was too pornographic for his taste.
		D)	did not exist.


17	Bauman believes that a (n) _______________ type of society has the capacity to accept ambivalence.
		A)	modern
		B)	postindustrial
		C)	industrial
		D)	postmodern


18	Which of the following would be considered a new means of consumption?
		A)	Coney Island
		B)	Amazon.com
		C)	the Parisian arcade
		D)	a tavern


19	The fact that the Mall of America is both a mall and an amusement park is an example of:
		A)	implosion.
		B)	symbolic exchange.
		C)	the means of production.
		D)	dromology.


20	According to Daniel Bell, in a postindustrial society, social structures are characterized as being:
		A)	irrational.
		B)	obsolete.
		C)	efficient.
		D)	hedonistic.


21	The fusion of science and innovation lies at the base of postindustrial society.
		A)	True
		B)	False


22	According to Michel Foucault, historical developments occur uniformly and linearly.
		A)	True
		B)	False


23	In a disciplinary society, individuals control their behavior even when they are not being observed directly.
		A)	True
		B)	False


24	Foucault discusses the process of deinstitutionalization in his book Madness and Civilization.
		A)	True
		B)	False


25	Zygmunt Bauman argues that modernity is characterized by a need to eliminate ambivalence.
		A)	True
		B)	False


26	Postmodern ethics reject the search for normative regulations and universal or absolute truths.
		A)	True
		B)	False


27	Symbolic exchanges are the most common type of transaction in the postmodern world.
		A)	True
		B)	False


28	A close-up of Baudrillard's book Simulations was featured in the movie The Matrix.
		A)	True
		B)	False


29	The new means of consumption are characterized by a greater immateriality than were the older means of consumption.
		A)	True
		B)	False


30	Postmodern wars are more likely to involve encounters between standing armies than modern wars.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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