AS theory

Who said that how people behave is conditioned by the social context in which behaviour occurs.

• Marx

• Mead

• Goffman

• Cooley

Who said that other people are like mirrors reflecting, " our self as others see us"

• Garfinkel

• Weber

• Mead

• Cooley

What is false class consciousness?

• The ideological state apparatus

• A mistaken belief about your class subjective class position

• The Marxist view that the proletariat have been socialised into the dominant ideas of the ruling class and hold beliefs which are not in their class interest.

• When a student is not following the lesson and is thinking instead about something else.

Who said that societies need to be understood with regard to the inter-relationship between institutions in society?

• Marx

• Weber

• Comte

• Durkheim

Who said, "the existence of all hitherto existing societies is the existence of class struggles" ?

• Comte

• Weber

• Marx

• Durkheim

What is phenomenology?

• A persepective which argues that physical objects have no external physical reality

• A perspective which analyses society and situations in terms of the subjective meanings that people impose on objects, events and behaviours.

• An interactionist approach that argues that the social world consists of phenomena whose meaning is both negotiated and interpreted through interaction

• A perspective that argues that sociology should focus on small-scale interactions between people and small groups.

Some of the values associated with the role of friend are

• sharing

• be supportive

• Share secrets of a friend with others

• loyalty

What does phenomenologist Wilson, (2002) mean by the idea that we experience the world with and through others?

• We keep up with our friends on social media which means we share the same ideas.

• The social world and its meanings are both negotiated and interpreted through interaction.

• Our conversations are phenomena which should be studied by structuralist sociologists

• Humans are shaped by wider institutions such as the education system

What does Garfinkel's breaching experiment show? (2 answers)

• How we rely on others to create our idea of self

• He wanted to demonstrate what happens when norms are violated, and this showed that norms exist.

• He aimed to show how reality is socially constructed and not a force acting on our behaviour, but rather created in interactions.

• How our parents are easily confused.

What does Wrong mean by the over-socialised conception of man?

• It is a perspective which suggests that a child can experience too much socialisation.

• It is a criticism of the claim that human beings are simply a product of their socialisation as this view is seen to be overly deterministic.

• It is a criticism of the functionalist organic analogy

• It is a perspective which demonstrates the existence of patriarchy.