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Sociology 2 Question and answers already passed Sociology 2 What is the difference between Macrosociology and Microsociology? - correct answer Macro= larger groups and social institutions Micro= small groups or individuals What is the Functionalism Theory? - correct answer Functionalist...

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Sociology 2
What is the difference between Macrosociology and Microsociology? - correct
answer ✔Macro= larger groups and social institutions
Micro= small groups or individuals


What is the Functionalism Theory? - correct answer ✔Functionalists are
interested in the social system as a whole


Sees society as being a complex system made up of interdependent
institutions that work together to promote stability; any change is seen as
dysfunctional


What is the Conflict Theory? - correct answer ✔Sees social life as
characterized by inequality where groups and individuals compete for scare
resources


Interested in how inequality is reproduced; promotes social change


What is the Symbolic Interactionism Theory? - correct answer ✔A micro level
theory (unlike functionalism and conflict theories)


Sees society as the product of everyday interactions among individuals


What is Social Constructionism? - correct answer ✔The study of human
experience in everyday life; interested in how individuals perceive, think, and
talk about social life

,Central to the theory is the concept of the social construction of reality-how
individuals assign meaning to perceptions and experiences through
interaction


Also, the life-world: the everyday routines and experiences that are taken for
granted


What is the Exchange Theory? - correct answer ✔People act rationally to get
what they need by exchanging goods and services with others


Relationships continue based on a simple calculation of rewards minus costs
equal outcome; if the relationship is neutral or positive it is likely to continue


What is the Rational Choice Theory? - correct answer ✔Sees all actions as
fundamentally rational and people ascertain the costs and benefits of any
action prior to acting


What is the Hidden Curriculum? - correct answer ✔Describes the
unacknowledged curriculum students are taught in school that contribute to
how the educational system creates and recreates social inequality


What is Teacher Expectancy? - correct answer ✔The impact of a teacher's
expectations on a student's performance


Student background and socioeconomic status were more important in
determining educational achievement than were differences in school
resources


What is Educational Segregation? - correct answer ✔Students tend to be
segregated into groups or classes within a school, or even into different
schools, based on race or SES

, What is Educational Stratification? - correct answer ✔Students tends to be
separated into different classes or schools that have stratified curriculum of
unequal difficulty


What is the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary kins? - correct
answer ✔Kinship is a relationship derived from descent and marriage; both
voluntary and involuntary


Primary: a person belonging to the same nuclear family (father, mother,
brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter)


Secondary: primary kin of your primary kin (father's father, mother's sister,
son's wife)


Tertiary: the primary kin of the secondary kin


Are Nuclear families more or less frequent? - correct answer ✔The
traditional family (mother, father, and children) is decreasing in frequency
across many cultures


Increasingly common families include: single parents, cross-generational
families, same sex parents


What are the trends seen in Marriage and Divorce? - correct answer
✔Increasing divorce rates
More older and longer-married couples are divorcing


What are forms of Family Violence? - correct answer ✔Child Abuse, Elder
Abuse, Spousal Abuse

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