sociology 111 final exam ivy tech Questions with correct answers

Functionalist Perspective Correct Answer - theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system conflcit theory Correct Answer - Karl Marx's theory sees social life as a competition and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality. symbolic interaction Correct Answer - the ongoing use of language and gestures in anticipation of how the other will react; a conversation, looks at everyday interactions of people to help explain society Communist Manifesto Correct Answer - A socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1848) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views. Comte Correct Answer - coined the term sociology, believed in positivism, divided sociology into social statistics/dynamics Weber Correct Answer - combined economic sociology and the sociology of religion, wrote "protestant ethic", bureaucratic theory, rationalization theory, 3 types of authority Karl Marx Correct Answer - founded historical materialism, conflict theory, and theorized social classes and class conflict Durkheim Correct Answer - created the functionalist perspective, developed concept of anomie, practitioner of positivist sociology