Karl Marx considered the defining trait of modern society to be capitalism.

True
Karl Marx highlighted which of the following in the process of social change?
Social Change
Karl Marx claimed that conflict between classes had the effect of preventing social
change.
False
Max Weber worried that modern societies were prone to a condition he called "anomie."
False
The class-society theory of modernity is derived largely from the social-conflict approach
of Karl Marx.
True
Saying that people are “essentially united in spite of all separating factors” is a good way
to describe what Tönnies called Gemeinschaft.

True
According to Emile Durkheim, modern societies are held together by difference, a
process he called "organic solidarity."
True

Modernization typically decreases social diversity

False
Modernization typically reduces the range of personal choice about how to live.
False
Social change results from invention, discovery, and cultural diffusion.
True
The theory of postmodernity claims that, in important respects, modernity has failed to
live up to its promise.
True
Mass-society theory argues that the scale of social life is increasingly leaving people
feeling lost in a world of vast and impersonal bureaucracies.

True
Ferdinand Tönnies described Gesellschaft as based on the power of the community over
the individual.
False
 Social change is almost always
controversial.  

Emile Durkheim’s concept of mechanical solidarity parallels Tönnies’s concept of

Gesellschaft.
True? False.
Sociologists explain that the consequences of social change are
usually both positive and negative.

Sociologist Peter Berger suggests that the rising popularity of wearing wristwatches is a
good indicator that a traditional society is beginning to modernize.
True
Difficulty forming a personal identity is a problem of modernity highlighted by mass-
society theory.
True
While Max Weber linked modern alienation to inequality, Karl Marx linked modern
alienation to expanding bureaucracy.
False
Modernization means that fewer people live in small, traditional communities.
True

Modernity is the product of social changes brought on by the Industrial

Revolution.
True
Modern people, claims mass-society theory, tend to develop tradition-directed
personalities and hold to conventional ways of life.

False
Durkheim’s greatest concern about modern societies focused on
a rise of anomie.   
Max Weber declared modern society to be “disenchanted.”
True
The class-society theory of modernity is based on the ideas of which of the following
sociologists?
Karl Marx

Social change is usually controversial.

True
Which of the following is a common cause of social change?
All of these responses are correct.