Long Quiz 1 (CESC)

Which perspective is the creation of E. Durkheim?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Symbolic Interactionalism

The _____perspective focuses on how individuals act with one another in daily situations. 

• Functionalist
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionist
• Structuralist

Karl Marx proposed that society would be better if all classes would rise up and fight until there was only one class of people. This is ____theory.

• Conflict
• Functionalist
• Structuralist
• Interactionist

If I define teacher as a responsible individual who wears fuzzy sweaters and drinks coffee all day, and so I behave that way, then that is an example of which sociological theory in practice?

• Symbolic Interactionalism
• Functionalist Perspective
• Conflict Theory
• Feminist Analysis

Which theory views society as composed of different groups and interests competing for power and resources? 

• Functionalism 
• Conflict Theory 
• Symbolic Interactionism 

Which of the three theories is the only micro theory (focuses on individual interaction)?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism 

Believed that all of history could be explained and was driven by class conflict

• Karl Marx
• Emile Durkheim
• Herbert Spencer
• Max Weber

Functionalists and conflict theorists tend to focus on the ________, or large scale patterns of society, in conducting their analyses.

• interactionist level
• micro level
• symbolic level
• macro level

Tusita owns a dairy farm. She has cows that she has to feed and care for. Every day, she milks the cows and sells the milk to the supermarket all over her states. Brenda stays and works in a(n) _______________ community.

• urban

• suburban

• rural

The people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent.

• Global community

• Sectoral

• Informal Community

• Formal Community