Sociological Perspective (sb)

Understanding Social behavior by putting yourself in the place of others.

• Positivism

• Society

• Culture Theory

• Verstehen

Using Sociology to solve problems

• Conflict Theory

• Applied Sociology

• Latent Functions

• Social Facts

Your primary status in education is

• Believer
• Citizen
• Teacher
• Learner

Karl Marx proposed that society would be better if all classes would rise up and fight until there was only one class of people. This is ____theory.

• Structuralist

• Functionalist

• Conflict

• Interactionist

True or False
The sociological perspective allows sociologists to focus on the common behaviors of a group of people, rather than their individual differences. 

• True
• False

Which theory says that society is a system of interconnected parts that work together to maintain balance?

• Functionalist Theory
• Conflict Theory 
• Symbolic Interactionism 

Which theory views society as composed of different groups and interests competing for power and resources? 

• Functionalism 
• Conflict Theory 
• Symbolic Interactionism 

Which of the three theories is the only micro theory (focuses on individual interaction)?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism 

Believed that all of history could be explained and was driven by class conflict

• Karl Marx
• Emile Durkheim
• Herbert Spencer
• Max Weber

This theory views society as traditionally unequal between men and women.

• Structural-Functional Theory
• Social Conflict Theory
• Feminism Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism Theory