3.4 Review Questions

QuestionAnswer
A sociologist conducts research into the ways that Hispanic American students are historically underprivileged in the U.S. education system. What theoretical approach is the sociologist Using?
Conflict theory
Symbolic interactionism
Functionalism
Ethnocentrism
Members of a counterculture movement believed that the economic disparity between the highest and the mid to lower economic classes is growing at an exponentially alarming rate. A sociologist who studies that movement by examining the interactions between its members would most likely use what theoretical approach?
Symbolic interactionism
Functionalism
Conflict theory
Ethnocentrism
What theoretical perspective views society as having a system of interdependent inherently connected parts?
Functionalism
Sociobiology
Conflict theory
Ethnocentrism
The “American Dream”—the notion that anybody can be successful and rich if they work hard enough—is most commonly associated with which sociological theory?
Conflict theory
Sociobiology
Functionalism
Ethnocentrism

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

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