School Of Thought

Question 1

Conflict theory

Answer 1

Theorist: Karl Marx, C.wright Mills
Purpose: to study how power forms the basis of the relationships between different groups and creates social conflict
*competition between social groups for power

Question 2

Feminist sociology

Answer 2

Theorist: Dorthy Smith
Purpose: to examine conflict created by gender

Question 3

Structural functionalism

Answer 3

Theorist: Emile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons
Purpose: to study how social structures work to serve the needs of society

Question 4

Symbolic interactionism

Answer 4

Theorists: charles cooley, George herbert mead, max weber
Purpose: to study the individuals role and place within the wider society and how people creat their world through social interaction

Question 5

Macrosociology

Answer 5

A wide perspective and is concerned with studying society as a whole

Question 6

Microsociology

Answer 6

Is concerned with the role and interaction s an individual or small group may have in society