Sociology 101 Straighterline final exam What is sociology - Answer the scientific study of social interactions and of social organizations What is the functionalist perspective? - Answer A system is to survive where certain essential tasks are performed.What happens to a functionalist system? - Answer If it fails to maintain it will perish.What is a conflict perspective? - Answer Conflict theorists focus their attention on society as a whole, studying its institutions and structural arrangements.What is the interactionist perspective? - Answer It is more concerned with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life Why would you use conflict, interactionist and functionalist perspectives together? - Answer By using all perspectives for full advantages.What is socialization? - Answer A process of social interaction by which people acquire knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior essential for effective participation in society.What are agents of socialization? - Answer Family, peers, school and mass media What is the sociological theory? - Answer A theory that emphasizes conditioning and observational theory What is culture? - Answer Refers to a social heritage of people learning patterns for thinking, feeling and acting from one generation to the next.What is society? - Answer Refer to a group of people within the same territory and share a common culture.What does it mean to be culture in flux? - Answer Culture groups adapt in dynamic and unpredictable ways Whats a subculture? - Answer Religious, racial, ethnic, occupational and age groups.What is a counterculture? - Answer Rejects many of the behavioral standards and guideposts that hold in the dominant culture.What is ethnocentrism? - Answer Judges the behavior of other groups by the standards of our own culture What is a 'status' - Answer A position within a group or society
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