Structuralist

Question 1

What does structure give to a word?

Answer 1

Meaning

Question 2

Is this a top-down or bottom-up approach?

Answer 2

Top-down

Question 3

What do structuralists think society is more important than?

Answer 3

The individuals within it

Question 4

What do they think social behaviours influenced by?

Answer 4

social insitutions

Question 5

What are the other social structures?

Answer 5

Class, gender, and ethnicity

Question 6

What do they believe are the most important factors in determining the way people act?

Answer 6

Social institutions and social structures

Question 7

What methodologies do they prefer to use?

Answer 7

Positivist

Question 8

What data do they prefer to collect?

Answer 8

Quantitative data

Question 9

Do they think human behaviour is predictable?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

What do they think their collected data can provide?

Answer 10

solutions to social issues

Question 11

What are some examples of structural theories?

Answer 11

Consensus theories (functionalism) and Conflict theories (Marxism and feminism)

Question 12

Did marxism and feminism start out in the structuralist tradition?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

What do marxism and feminism agree with in terms of structural theory?

Answer 13

That structural inequality exists

Question 14

Why are structuralist theories still relevant?

Answer 14

Because divisions still exist

Question 15

What divisions still exist in society?

Answer 15

Social class, gender, ethnicity

Question 16

How many people are there living in poverty in the UK?

Answer 16

14 million

Question 17

Of the people still living in poverty in the UK, what type of people are they?

Answer 17

Females from minority ethnic backgrounds

Question 18

Are there still people who haven’t quite evolved into postmodern society?

Answer 18

Yes, such as the elderly

Question 19

What background do those that disagree with the theory come from?

Answer 19

Postmodern

Question 20

What makes the ‘one size fits all’ structuralist belief no longer fit for purpose?

Answer 20

Individual choices and greater diversity

Question 21

What is meant by ‘meta-narrative’?

Answer 21

An explanation that tries to sum up why everything happens in one truth

Question 22

Does society still believe in meta-narratives?

Answer 22

No, according to Leotard

Question 23

What have we replaced meta-narratives with?

Answer 23

Individual perspectives on society

Question 24

Will everyone in the same social class, gender and ethnicity have similar experiences?

Answer 24

No

Question 25

Is Structuralism a micro or macro approach?

Answer 25

Macro

Question 26

What do macro approaches look at?

Answer 26

Society as a whole