The interpretive Dynamics of Society

Question 1

Is formally defined as constituting a fairly large number of people who are living in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside their area, and participate in a common culture.

Answer 1

Society

Question 2

He is supposed to possess the tripartite powers reserved for him alone.

Answer 2

deity or God

Question 3

What are the tripartite / three fold powers

Answer 3

Omnipotence (all-powerful), Omniscience (All-knowing), Omnipresence (everywhere)

Question 4

It’s ‘agents’ control and runs the machinery of social control.

Answer 4

All-powerful

Question 5

Its ‘library’ keeps all possible knowledge and collects the memories of the people who form it.

Answer 5

all-knowing

Question 6

its ‘spies’ are scattered in the four corners of the land.

Answer 6

everywhere

Question 7

The three classical theories of the origin of society

Answer 7

Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism

Question 8

It looks at social “order”. It argues that society is made possible by cooperation and interdependence

Answer 8

Structural Functionalism

Question 9

Who is the father of Structural Functionalism

Answer 9

Talcott Parsons

Question 10

It sees society as an arena. Social actors are gladiators fighting for their very lives. The winner takes the rewards and is assured of freedom.

Answer 10

Conflict Theory

Question 11

Father of Conflic Theory

Answer 11

Karl Marx

Question 12

It explores the issues of meaning-making and why this is crucial in understanding order or conflict as processes that brought about society.

Answer 12

Symbolic Interactionism

Question 13

Father of Symbolic Interactionism

Answer 13

George Herbert Mead

Question 14

Are guides in the performance of roles and in everyday actions and interactions. They provide order in a system characterized by the presence of many actors with different businesses and agenda to pursue.

Answer 14

Rules

Question 15

They give invaluable insights into the nature of social behavior.without us realizing it, almost 90% of our day-to-day actions are governed and shaped by these rules.

Answer 15

Unwritten rules

Question 16

According to E.B. Taylor, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Answer 16

Culture

Question 17

It refers to the mass-produced and mass-mediated forms of consumer culture that emerged in the twentieth century.

Answer 17

mass culture