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Conflict Thoery
Information Warefare and Applications of Marxist thought
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/12/2009

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According to Weber, the quality of perceived interaction is
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status
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According to Marx, society develops along which of the following patterns?
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Feudalism to Capitalism to Socialism to Communism
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The enlightenment, secularism, rationalism and materialism are traditions influenced by
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Karl Marx
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According to Weber, the chance of a man or group to realize their will even against the opposition of others is
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power
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According to Weber, economically determined stratification is
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class
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which individual was known as the "last philosopher"
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Marx
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Marx book which comes up with the "notion of alienation" on the worker is divorced from the means of production. Thus "dead labor" dominates "living labor"
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The Paris Manuscript of 1844
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The premise that social and historical development followed natural law is called
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Empiricism
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The premise that through reason man could identify the laws of science and human action is called
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rationalism
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In this work Marx describes the historical proclivity of the accumulation of money and an elaboration of the domination of living labor by dead labor. "fetishism of commodities and money"
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Das Kapital
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The creation of the 'good life'n (freedom from ignorance, injustice, and the enjoyment of the abundant material fruits of Man's labor)
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Utopianism
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The theorist ho can be called a "dialectical spiritualist" is
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Hegel
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In this work he summarized his research in the 1840s and seated that the results would be the guiding threads of his subsequent work.
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A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Marx and Engles attended the first congress of the league of commnunists in the summer of 1847. It is here that they wrote the book
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The communist Manifesto
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Which of theorist is considered the antecedent of all theorists that pass beyond the individual and see mind a social entity
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Hegel
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which theorist is not identified with the dialectic?
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Aristotle, Hegel, Marx
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This book was considered by some to be Marx's magnum opus
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Das Kapital
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Pattern for dialectic
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Thesis- Antithesis- Synthesis
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The theorist who "stood Hegel on his head" was
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Marx
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The creation of a new order out of the old and new is the
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Synthesis
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This conflict theorist who reduced the basic element of social stratification to power rather then economics is
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Mills
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The fact that ever system of economic production begins as an affirmation i.e. the best of all possible orders at the time is the
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Thesis
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The fact that any system, once entrenched becomes an obstacle to change the basis of the
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antithesis
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The concept of "zeit Geist" was advanced by
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Hegel
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The fact that for monopolistic capitalism life becomes a chain of crisis that result in tariff walls, inflation, and increase in government spending lays the foundation for the
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Marx's theory of collapse
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Which of the following theorist is identified as a Neo-Marxist
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Mills
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Which theorist advanced the notion that the heads of government the military and the business leaders for a "power elite"
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Mills
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A code fragment that copies itself into a Larger program, modifying that program then replicates itself, infection other programs
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Virus
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this does not fall into the category of malicious software
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trap doors
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An independent program that reproduces by copying itself in full-blown fashion from one computer to another, usually over a network...
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worm
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This is a code fragment that hides inside a program and preforms a disguised function. One way to hide the software is to make it look like a security related tool.
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Trojan Horse
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This type of software can be an independent program or a piece of code that's been planted by a system developer or programmer
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logic bombs
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This is a mechanism that is built into the system by the designer that provides the designer a way back into the system and circumvents the normal system protection
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trap door
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Monitoring the activity of a computer or other electronic equipment by detecting low levels of electromagnetic emissions from the device
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Van Eck Monitoring
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This is a device that can disrupt the normal operation of digital equipment such as computers and navigational equipment by directing HERF emission at them
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high energy radio frequency gun
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This is a device in which the source can be a nuclear or non-nuclear detonation...
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electromagnetic pulse bomb
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These machines are tiny robots that could be spread at an information center. The crawl through the offices and hallways until they find a computer, enter it through slots and shut down the electronic circuits
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Nano Machines
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The bourgeoisie, in Marx's scheme, are the laborers
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False
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The proletariat are the owners of the means of production
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False
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Riesman's supports the interpretation presented by C. Wright Mills in the power Elite
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False
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The phenomenological school of Neo-Marxism emphasizes the notion of alienation
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False
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According to Mills, when several institutional orders develop in accordance with a common principle it is called
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correspondence
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According to Mills, when various institutional developments lead to similar resultant ends it is called
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coincidence
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According to Mills, when one institutional order dominates and manages the other it is called
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Coordination
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Hegel is known as a dialectical materialist or an economic determinist
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False
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According to Mills, when one or more institutional orders blend it is called
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convergence
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Conflict theory is identified with evolutionary development while structural functionalism is linked to revolution
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False
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In mills' scheme the biological component of a man that focuses on structural mechanisms and undefined impulses is called
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organism
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In Mill's scheme the component of the individual that refers to the integration of feelings sensations and impulses is called the
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psychic structure
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According to Mill's, this component refers to man as a player of roles
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person
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This is mills most inclusive term for the individual as a whole entity
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character structure
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This component of Mills view of the individual is the focus of idiosyncratic integration
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character structure
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An organized set of roles, according to Mills' is
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institution
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The political, military, economic, kinship, and religious systems within Mills sociology are referred to as
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institutional orders
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President Nixon was responsible for the shift in concern away from social unrest to natural disasters and this set the tone for the evolution of FEMA.
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False
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A president Executive Order needs Congressional approval in order to be implemented.
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false
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FEMA drew the attention of the press when it drew compliments for the fine job it did in Florida in cleaning up the destruction cause by hurricane Andrew
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False
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Whitfield Diffie of sun Microsystems is a staunch supporter of the use of the clipper chip.
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False
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Grossmen argues that those who purchase hacked DVD players should be criminally prosecuted.
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False
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Traditionally musicians take the lions share of the profits from thier songs while the manufacturing and distribution arms of the industry receive a relatively small amount
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False
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Grossmen argues that copyright laws are necessary to protect intellectual captial
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False
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There are concerns on the part of TIA director Poindexter that the Patriot act will subject various political organizations to surveillance, wiretapping, harassment, and criminal action for advocating their political beliefs.
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False
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Lee Tien, senior staff attorney of the electronic frontier foundation, is one of the major advocates of the TIA program.
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False
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the "great seal" appears on the back of the five dollar bill.
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False
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According to Lee Tien, the most serious asymmetric threats facing the U.S. is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loosely organized in shadowy networks
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False
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The Biosphere reserves are centered arund a core that will be highly developed for industrial purposes and surrounded by two successive rings known as a buffer zone and a transition zone.
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False
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Garret Hardin (1968) is the author of "tragedy of the Commons" voices serious concerns about eminent domain and the erosion of civil liberties.
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False
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Section 101 of the New York State eminent domain precedures law clearly states that just compensation shall not be paid to the persons whose property right are acquired by the exercise of the power of eminent domain
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False
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