the systematic study of human society and social interaction

Match the perspective to its beliefs.

• Functionalist

• Societies characterized by post-industrialization, consumerism, and global communications bring into question existing assumptions about social life and the nature of reality

• Symbolic Interactionalist

• Society is based on patriarchy, a hierarchical system of power in which males possess greater economic and social privilage than females.

• Postmodernist

• Society is characterized by social inequality; social life is a struggle for scarce resources. Social arrangements benefit some at the expense of others.

• Feminism

• Society is the sum of the interactions of people and groups. Behaviour is learned in interaction with other people; how people define a situation becomes the foundation for how they behave

• Conflict

• Society is composed of interrelated parts that work together to maintain stability within society. This stability is threatened by dysfunctional acts/institutions

Which is true of the sociological imagination?

• Term coined by C. Wright Mills

• defined as the ability to see the relationship between our individual experiences and society as a whole

• Part of the conflict theory of sociology

• helps us look beyond our own experiences to gain insight into society

macro-level sociology

• trends within & among large groups and societies

• study small groups and individual interactions

Match the sociological thinkers to the correct perspective.

• Feminist

• Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons, Robert Merton

• Conflict

• Karl Marx, Max Weber

• Postmodernist

• George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer

• Functionalist

• Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard

• Symbolic Interactionist

• Dorothy Smith, Margrit Eichier, Meg Luxton

According to functionalists...

• manifest functions

• the undesirable consequences of an element of society

• dysfunctions

• functions intended by society

• latent functions

• functions unintended, "hidden", and generally unacknowledged

Power is the same as prestige.

• True

• False

Argued that race was as central to the modern world as class.

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Dorothy Miller

________ attempt to study how people make sense of situations and how they go about activities.

• functionalists

• conflict theorists

• postmodernists

• symbolic interactionists

an idea or concept that exists because a group of people agree that it exists and give it meaning, rather than being based on objective reality or natural law.