Social Perspectives

Question 1

A mindset that can connect individual experiences and societal relationships.

Answer 1

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Question 2

The lens that an individual chooses to view the scope of society from

Answer 2

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Question 3

Goes beyond the obvious and question that is accepted as true or common sense.

Answer 3

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Question 4

Focuses on big picture analysis that drives changes in the whole of society

Answer 4

MACROSOCIOLOGY

Question 5

Large-scale forces in the society that affects the course of human society and the lives of individuals

Answer 5

MACROSOCIOLOGY

Question 6

Analyzes social interactions that forms of human societal development

Answer 6

MICROSOCIOLOGY

Question 7

Understand social meanings that shape realities in society and different social settings

Answer 7

MICROSOCIOLOGY

Question 8

The three social paradigms are:

Answer 8

• Structural Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

Question 9

Grew from the French and Industrial revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries

Answer 9

STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM

Question 10

There is a need to have a strong society and this can be achieved by strong social bonds and rules for social cohesion

Answer 10

STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM

Question 11

____________ felt that human beings have desires that result in chaos unless society limits them.

Answer 11

Emile Durkheim

Question 12

Who said,

“To achieve any other result, the passions first must be limited… But since the individual has no way of limiting them, this must be done by some force exterior to him”

Answer 12

Emile Durkheim

Question 13

Structural Functionalism’s major assumption is that ___________ is necessary to have a strong society, and adequate socialization and social integration are necessary to achieve social stability.

Answer 13

social stability

Question 14

In Structural Functionalism, ____________ perform important functions to help ensure social stability.

Answer 14

society’s social institutions

Question 15

In Structural Functionalism, slow social change is desirable, but __________ threatens social order.

Answer 15

rapid social change

Question 16

Functionalism is a ____________.

Answer 16

macro theory.

Question 17

Grew from the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century

Answer 17

CONFLICT THEORY

Question 18

Instead of fearing the disintegration of society, it is best to explore the conditions that were responsible for the violence and social upheavals in society.

Answer 18

CONFLICT THEORY

Question 19

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels analyzed that the _____________ was responsible for the breakdown of social order because of its own contradiction which leads to its own inevitable demise.

Answer 19

capitalist system

Question 20

Assumes that society is characterized by pervasive inequality based on social class and other factors.

Answer 20

CONFLICT THEORY

Question 21

Assumes that far-reaching social change is needed to reduce or eliminate social inequality and to create an egalitarian society.

Answer 21

CONFLICT THEORY

Question 22

In Symbolic Interactionism, people construct their ______ as they interact; they do not merely learn the roles that society has set out for them.

Answer 22

roles

Question 23

Symbolic Interactionism states that is this interaction occurs, individuals negotiate their definitions of the situations in which they find themselves and socially construct the reality of these situations. In doing so, they rely heavily on _________ such as words and gestures to reach a shared understanding of their interaction.

Answer 23

symbols

Question 24

Symbolic Interactionism is a __________.

Answer 24

micro theory.

Question 25

Conflict Theory is a __________.

Answer 25

macro theory.

Question 26

Society is an organic whole composed of stable parts.

Answer 26

Structural Functionalism

Question 27

Society is a set of groups competing for power and resources.

Answer 27

Conflict Theory

Question 28

Society is the sum of daily interactions guided by symbols.

Answer 28

Symbolic Interactionism