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Structural Functionalism.Definition:Structural Functionalism is a macro theory that looks at how all structures or institutions in society work together. Examples of structures or institutions of society include: education, health care, family, legal system, economy, and religion. Key Concepts:
Key Figure:Emile Durkheim: 1858-1917. Conflict Theory.Definition:Conflict Theory is a macro approach that examines the role that power plays in society and how it can be used to have control over others. Key Concepts:
Key Figure:Karl Marx: 1818-1883. Feminist Theory.Definition:Feminist Theory examines social issues from both macro and micro perspectives, and focuses on the experience of gender. Key Concepts:
Key Figure:Dorothy Smith: born 1926. Dorothy Smith is one Canadian feminist theorist who has focused on how women have been marginalized in society. She works towards reframing a study of society that can reflect the realities and experiences of people beyond the confines of traditional constructs or concepts of gender, race, or economic status. Symbolic Interaction.Definition:Symbolic Interactionism is a micro theory that concentrates on how individuals attach meaning to situations and how it influences behaviour. Key Concepts:
Key Figure:George Herbert Mead: 1863 - 1931. George Mead believed that individuals create meaning through their interactions with the world around them. Specifically, a person develops a self-concept based on the ways in which he or she has interacted with others. This self-concept then also defines how the individual acts and behaves in society. Which sociological perspective emphasizes the way in which the parts of society are structured to maintain its stability?he functionalist perspective emphasizes the way in which parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Which sociological perspective sees the social world as being in continual struggle over resources and power?conflict function. Which sociological perspective sees the social world as being in continual struggle? functionalist perspective.
Which perspective would state that people and their personalities are formed through the way in which they interact with and react to their social world?Which perspective would state that people are formed through the way in which they interact with and react to their social world? The conflict perspective emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.
Which sociological perspective generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order to understand society as a whole?Cards
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