SOC 285 Week 4

A premise of this school of thought is that people's narrow self-serving interests need to be regulated by shared norms and values, and by the state

• Social order

• Conflict

• Postmodern

A study that seeks to quantify the prevalence of happiness through questionnaires would be following this paradigm

• Positivism

• Interpretivism

• Critical realism

Name one of the 3 dimensions of abstraction, according to Sears & Cairns

A premise of this school of thought is that the state protects the interests of the ruling class, and maintains oppression through systemic inequalities.

• Social order

• Conflict

• Postmodern

The physically existing thing of "the pipe" would be the...

• Signifier

• Signified

A premise of this school of thought is that enlightenment/modern thinking is not universal

• Social order

• Conflict

• Postmodern

A study that utilizes participant observation to understand how a particular group of people navigate and make meaning in their rural lives would be following this paradigm

• Positivism

• Interpretivism

• Critical realism

The word "pipe" would be the...

• Signifier

• Signified