Unit 1 Sociology

The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life is what sociologist C. Wright Mills called

• the sociological perspective

• the sociological imagination

• sociological collaboration

• social sociology

The study of groups and their behavior.

• Sociology

• Psychology

• Anthropology

• Social Science

To see how the individual fits into the world, and how the world affects the individual.

• Sociological Imagination

• Dysfunctional Psychology

• Conflict Perspective

• Symbolic Interactionism

Which perspective (paradigm) of sociology is considered the “well-oiled machine”?

• Functionalism

• Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

Which perspective (paradigm) is considered a “group of competing interests”?

• Conflict Theory

• Functionalism

• Symbolic Interactionism

This perspective (paradigm) of sociology emphasizes language and nonverbal communication.

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Conflict Theory

• Functionalism

an examination of large-scale patterns of society

• micro-level analysis
• macro-level analysis
• positivism
• conflict theory

a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled contributes to society's equilibrium

• functional analysis
• conflict theory
• class conflict
• symbolic interactionalism

Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers

• conflict theory
• theory
• class conflict
• values

a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another 

• sociological perspective
• functional analysis
• theory
• symbolic interactionism