UCSP - Week 5 (1)

According to the functionalist perspective, why do different aspects of society exist?

• To limit resources

• To serve a needed purpose

• To create competition

• To promote inequality

What does the Davis-Moore Thesis state about the relationship between social roles and rewards?

• The greater the social role, the lesser the reward

• The greater the social role, the greater the reward

• Rewards are not related to social roles

• Social roles have no impact on rewards

Who is the proponent of Conflict theory that believed society is made up of individuals competing for limited resources?

• Karl Marx

• Adam Smith

• Max Weber

• Emile Durkheim

According to Karl Marx, what causes inequality in society?

• Equal distribution of resources

• Stratification dividing people into two groups

• Absence of social classes

• Lack of competition

Which group in society, according to Marx, owns factors of production such as land and resources?

• Proletariat

• Middle class

• Bourgeoisie

• Working class

Who are the workers that provide manual labor in society, as per Marx's theory?

• Bourgeoisie

• Proletariat

• Middle class

• Ruling class

What distinguishes humans according to Symbolic Interactionism?

• Ability to respond to stimuli

• Distinct species

• Interpretations and meanings of situations

• Subjective reality

According to Symbolic Interactionism, what do humans have the ability to do in response to stimuli?

• Ignore the stimuli

• Interrupt the process

• React instinctively

• Create new stimuli

What does Symbolic Interactionism state about human perception of reality?

• There is only one reality

• There are only interpretations and meanings of situations

• Reality is subjective

• Interpretations are irrelevant

How does Symbolic Interactionism view the concept of reality?

• As a constant variable

• As a subjective interpretation

• As a fixed entity

• As an objective truth