1.3 Review Questions

QuestionAnswer
Which of these theories is most likely to look at the social world on a micro level?
Symbolic interactionism
Structural functionalism
Conflict theory
Positivism
Who believed that the history of society was one of class struggle?
Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
Erving Goffmann
George Herbert Mead
Who coined the phrase symbolic interactionism?
Herbert Blumer
Max Weber
Lester F. Ward
W. I. Thomas
A symbolic interactionist may compare social interactions to:
theatrical roles
behaviors
conflicts
human organs
Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic interactionist?
Participant observation
Surveys
Quantitative data analysis
None of the above

The content of this course has been taken from the free Sociology textbook by Openstax

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