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Worksheetssociological perspectives
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Your primary status in education is
a)
Believer
b)
Citizen
c)
Teacher
d)
Learner
2.
Which perspective is the creation of E. Durkheim?
a)
Functionalism
b)
Conflict Theory
c)
Psychoanalysis
d)
Symbolic Interactionalism
3.
The _____perspective focuses on how individuals act with one another in daily situations.
a)
Functionalist
b)
Conflict Theory
c)
Symbolic Interactionist
d)
Structuralist
4.
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.
a)
Conflict
b)
Functionalist
c)
Structuralist
d)
Interactionist
5.
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?
a)
Symbolic Interactionalism
b)
Functionalist Perspective
c)
Conflict Theory
d)
Feminist Analysis
6.
True or False
The sociological perspective allows sociologists to focus on the common behaviors of a group of people, rather than their individual differences.
The sociological perspective allows sociologists to focus on the common behaviors of a group of people, rather than their individual differences.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
Which theory says that society is a system of interconnected parts that work together to maintain balance?
a)
Functionalist Theory
b)
Conflict Theory
c)
Symbolic Interactionism
8.
Which theory views society as composed of different groups and interests competing for power and resources?
a)
Functionalism
b)
Conflict Theory
c)
Symbolic Interactionism
9.
Which of the three theories is the only micro theory (focuses on individual interaction)?
a)
Functionalism
b)
Conflict Theory
c)
Symbolic Interactionism
10.
Believed that all of history could be explained and was driven by class conflict
a)
Karl Marx
b)
Emile Durkheim
c)
Herbert Spencer
d)
Max Weber
11.
This theory views society as traditionally unequal between men and women.
a)
Structural-Functional Theory
b)
Social Conflict Theory
c)
Feminism Theory
d)
Symbolic Interactionism Theory
12.
Functionalists and conflict theorists tend to focus on the ________, or large scale patterns of society, in conducting their analyses.
a)
interactionist level
b)
micro level
c)
symbolic level
d)
macro level
13.
According to the principles of symbolic interactionism, symbols not only allow relationships to exist, they also allow society to exist.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
What term describes the behaviours and attitudes picked up in school
a)
Labelling
b)
Streaming
c)
Hidden curriculum
d)
Open curriculum
15.
Which theory is associated with Paul Willis
a)
Labeliing
b)
Anti-school sub-culture
c)
Streaming
d)
Correspondence theory
e)
Crisis of masculinity
16.
The theory that focuses on how individuals come to be identified as deviant
a)
cultural transmission theory
b)
strain theory
c)
labeling theory
d)
control theory
17.
Social norms are:
a)
Creative activities such as gardening, cookery and craftwork
b)
The symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
c)
Religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
d)
Rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life
18.
The 'correspondence principle' (Bowles & Gintis) suggests that:
a)
Schools prepare children for work by teaching them to be obedient
b)
Teachers and parents tend to have similar attitudes to learning
c)
Children who write lots of letters develop a better grasp of language
d)
Boys' and girls' educational achievements have recently become similar
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