Assignment
Structural Functional Perspective:
1. Review the chapter material and provided links – describe structural functional perspective (one paragraph – five complete sentences)
2. Select one of the quotes (below) that best connects to structural functional perspective
3. Clearly explain how/why the selected quote connects to structural functional perspective (one paragraph – five complete sentences)
Conflict Perspective:
1. Review the chapter material and provided links – describe conflict perspective (one paragraph – five complete sentences)
2. Select one of the following quotes (below) that best connects to conflict perspective
3. Clearly explain how/why the selected quote connects to conflict perspective (one paragraph – five complete sentences)
Symbolic Interaction Perspective:
1. Review the chapter material and provided links – describe symbolic interaction perspective (one paragraph – five complete sentences)
2. Select one of the following quotes (below) that best connects to symbolic interaction perspective
3. Clearly explain how/why the selected quote connects to symbolic interaction perspective (one paragraph – five complete sentences)
Sociology Theorist Quotes:
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” (C.W. Mills)
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.” (Charles Horton Cooley)
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” (W.E.B. Du Bois)
“It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil.” (Max Weber)
“Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.” (Karl Marx)
“The law is the survival of the fittest…. The law is not the survival of the “better” or the “stronger”…. (Herbert Spencer)
“Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.” (Emile Durkheim)
“Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.” (Erving Goffman)
“Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.” (Talcott Parsons)
Sources: (above quotes sources)
Two additional outside sources required – Typed, 12-point font, double spaced, two-page paper minimum required
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