Sociology Unit 1

How does the sociological imagination help us understand events around us?

• It makes us prisoners of social forces.
• Helps us make judgments on other cultures based on what is right and wrong. 
• Events in our personal lives and events in our society are completely unconnected.
• It makes us challenge conventional social wisdom by seeing how social pressures affect our daily lives

What is sociology?

• The scientific study of soccer players.
• The scientific study of human social behavior.
• The scientific study of urban gangs and violence.
• The acceptance of conventional social wisdom.

This sociological perspective emphasizes the role of conflict, competition, & constraint within a society.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

This sociological perspective focuses on the interactions among people based on mutually understood symbols.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

This sociological perspective emphasizes the contributions (functions) made by each part of a society.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

The distribution of power in a society is of prime importance to this sociological perspective.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

This sociological perspective sees society as an integrated whole, and assumes that societies will tend to return to a state of stability whenever a change occurs.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

The process of socialization is crucial to this sociological perspective, since we learn the meanings of symbols from others in society.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

This sociological perspective can be represented by a child's mobile, in that any change in one part of society affects all other parts.

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism

In studying social deviance & crime, which perspective focuses on how a deviant person learned their deviant behavior (socialization)?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• None of these