*ch 1

Question 1

micro-level

Answer 1

smaller groups of 2 to around 30 people or so. everything that we do socially is patterned.

Question 2

meso-level

Answer 2

organizations.

Question 3

macro-level

Answer 3

large groups, such as a state, nation-state or even the globe. life expectancy is patterned in the u.s. according to gender and race.

Question 4

social fact

Answer 4

constrains or limits an individual’s free will and actions;exterior to the individual; can only be explained through other social facts.

Question 5

institutions

Answer 5

a relatively stable and predicable arrangement among people that has emerged overtime to coordinate human interaction and behavior to meet some human need. ex: schools, prison, grocery stores, corporations, factories, marriages, courts, gyms.

Question 6

social structure

Answer 6

recurring patterns of events in social relationships and institutions. ex: daily routines. they can occur mirco, meso, and macro.

Question 7

conflict theory

Answer 7

a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources

Question 8

functionalist theory

Answer 8

a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the
biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society

Question 9

symbolic interactionism

Answer 9

a theoretical perspective through which scholars examine the relationship of individuals

within their society by studying their communication (language and symbols)