17.4 Review Questions

QuestionAnswer
Which concept corresponds best to functionalism?
Interdependence
Happiness
Revolution
Symbolism
Which sociologist is not associated with conflict theory?
George H. Mead
C. Wright Mills
G. William Domhoff
Karl Marx
Karl Marx believed social structures evolve through:
conflict
supply and demand
enlightenment
cooperation
The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street protests, and the Tea Party movement have the following in common:
They are examples of conflict theory in action.
They sought to destroy central government.
They can only occur in a representative democracy.
They used violence as the means of achieving their goals.
Which is not one of functionalism’s four main purposes of government?
Equally distributing resources
Maintaining law and order
Meeting social needs
Planning and directing society
Sociologist G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America? asserts that wealth is often necessary to exert the most influence over social and political systems. This is a ____ perspective.
conflict theory
symbolic interactionist
functionalist
feminist
Which of the following paradigms would consider movements such as Occupy Wall Street undesirable and unnecessarily forcing social change?
Functionalism
Symbolic interactionism
Feminism
Conflict theory

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