Society & Social Interactions Quiz

According to Émile Durkheim, what did he call the communal beliefs, morals, and attitudes of a society?

• Collective conscience

• Class, status, and power

• Iron cage

• Habitualization

Which theoretical perspective stressed the necessary interconnectivity of all elements in society?

• Functionalism

• Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Habitualization

According to Karl Marx, what is the primary focus of his conflict theory?

• Collective conscience

• Class, status, and power

• Iron cage

• Habitualization

What did Max Weber describe as the final condition of humanity in a rational society?

• Collective conscience

• Class, status, and power

• Iron cage

• Habitualization

According to Charles Cooley, what do we base our image on?

• Collective conscience

• Class, status, and power

• Looking-glass self

• Habitualization

According to Robert K. Merton, what can even a false idea become if it is acted upon?

• Habitualization

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

• Looking-glass self

• Disenchantment of the world

Which theory says that society is a system of interconnected parts that work together to maintain balance?

• Functionalist Theory
• Conflict Theory 
• Symbolic Interactionism 

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

• Functionalist
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionist
• Structuralist

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

• Functionalism 
• Conflict Theory 
• Symbolic Interactionism 

"the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society"
Thinking away from one's usual day-to-day life and look at the world in a new way.  Is know as: 

• Sociological Perspective 
• Sociological Imagination 
• conflict perspective
• functionalist perspective