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Multiple choice quiz 4
Which
one
of the following describes legal-rational authority?
a) Authority is based on an appeal by power-holders to the importance of long-standing rules and beliefs
b) Authority is based on the extraordinary supernatural, superhuman or exceptional powers or qualities of an individual personality
c) The authority of a leader emerges naturally or the leader is selected on the basis of adherence to traditional principles
d) The authority of those with power rests on a framework of rules which gives them the right to issue commands to others
Which
one
of the following is Lukes’s second dimension of power?
a) The ability to make or influence decisions
b) The ability to stop certain issues ever reaching the point where decisions are made
c) The ability to manipulate and control the thoughts and desires of others
d) The ability to get your own way even in the face of opposition by others
A democratic system of government is
one
in which:
a) those who rule take account of needs beyond their own when they make decisions
b) the government is elected by and accountable to all citizens
c) those with power reflect the interests of a range of elite groups
d) those who rule reflect only the interests of those who voted for them
Which
one
of the following statements is not part of the pluralist view of power?
a) There is no one individual or group which has power but power is distributed throughout society
b) A particular group holds power, which it uses to further its own interests at the expense of the rest of society
c) The state is a neutral body compromising and balancing between competing interests
d) No single group can monopolize power as any attempt to do so will be countered by the action of other groups
Which
one
of the following statements best describes the Marxist view of power?
a) Power in society is held by the owners and controllers of the means of production
b) Power is held by the state, which reflects the interests of a range of competing elites
c) Power in society is only held by the bourgeoisie because people keep voting for them
d) Power in society is not monopolized by any one group
In Pareto’s classical elite theory, those who rule through cunning and guile are known as which
one
of the following?
a) Jackals
b) Running dogs
c) Lackeys
d) Foxes
Oligarchy is:
a) rule by wealthy individuals
b) rule by individuals who are substantially older than the bulk of the population
c) rule by a small elite
d) rule by a god or deity or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
Which
one
of the following developed the theory of the power elite?
a) Bertrand Mills
b) C. Wright Mills
c) Vilfredo Pareto
d) Nicos Poulantzas
e) Mills and Boon
f) Stephen Lukes
Which
one
of the following might not generally be regarded as a feature of elites in contemporary Britain?
a) Private education
b) Attendance at Oxford and Cambridge and other ‘top’ universities
c) State education
d) A shared weltanschauung
e) A high degree of connectedness
Which
one
of the following is not a New Social Movement?
a) Women’s movement
b) Anti-war movement
c) Green movement
d) Trade union movement
The third way refers to which
one
of the following?
a) A view that power in society is held neither by the people as a whole, nor by a ruling class, but by a third autonomous ruling elite
b) A form of government between democracy and dictatorship
c) A political philosophy that retains the values of socialism but also supports market policies for reducing inequalities and generating wealth
d) A view that suggests democracy has failed to resolve the problems of Western society, and a new form of government must be found
Pluralists regard the state as:
a) an honest broker mediating between the interests of different groups
b) a corrupt institution of scheming and cunning self-seeking foxes
c) an instrument of lions who rule in their own interests to keep what they already have and to defend it at any cost
d) a tool for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie
The study of voting patterns is known as:
a) psephomancy
b) psephography
c) psephology
d) psephism
The term ‘left wing’ generally refers to:
a) ideas and organizations generally favouring existing social arrangements and traditional values
b) ideas and organizations generally critical of existing social arrangements and traditional values
c) ideas and organizations generally displaying great volatility, swinging between favouring and not favouring existing social arrangements and traditional values
Partisan dealignment refers to which
one
of the following?
a) Most individuals aligning themselves with a particular political party over long periods of time
b) Voters identifying themselves with a political party that most naturally seemed to reflect their class interests
c) Working-class manual workers adopting more middle-class norms and values
d) Fewer and fewer individuals showing loyalty to any particular political party
Which
one
of the following is not generally regarded as a value of the New Right?
a) Reducing state involvement in the economy
b) Support for the free market
c) Strong support for the welfare state
d) An emphasis on individual choices and responsibilities
Pressure groups are:
a) self-help groups to support those who find themselves facing stress in contemporary society
b) groups which have emerged largely since the 1960s which campaign on a broad range of connected issues, often on an international and global scale
c) groups of Third World countries fighting the pressures of Western cultural influences in their societies
d) organizations which try to put pressure on those with power in society to implement policies they favour
Culture jamming refers to which
one
of the following?
a) Subverting corporate messages about the desirability of their brands and logos
b) Mixing different brands and logos to develop new ones
c) The process of promoting some transnational corporations at the expense of others
d) The process of sharing the beneficial elements (the jam) of Western culture with less developed countries
Which
one
of the following is not a model of audience responses to media coverage of political issues?
a) Hypodermic
b) Two-step flow
c) Uses and gratifications
d) Globalist
e) Interpretivist
f) Postmodernist
Which
one
of the following is not generally regarded as a consequence of globalization?
a) Global communication networks
b) The growing power of transnational and multinational corporations
c) Growing global problems, such as cyber crime, the drug trade and terrorism
d) The reduced power of international government organizations
e) Economic migration
f) The growing power of national governments
