Theoretical Frameworks
This theoretical perspective suggests that our society is based and inequality and the struggle for power and resources.
What is conflict theory?
This theorist believed that every part of society is vital to the whole.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
This type of society has a differentiation of beliefs with an elaborate division of labor.
What is organic solidarity?
A group of three people.
What is triad?
This theory believes strong social bonds prevent criminal and deviant behavior.
What is social control theory?
This theoretical framework focuses on the interactions between individuals and the meanings negotiated between them.
What is symbolic interactionism?
This theorist believes we live in a capitalistic society that is unequal and broke down social classes into the bourgeoise and the proletariat.
Who is Karl Marx?
This type of culture rejects the norms and values of mainstream society.
What is counterculture?
The research technique where the sociologist becomes a part of the group and studies or observes the behavior of the group members.
What is participant observation?
This theory suggests there is no set reality, things only exist because people collectively agree that it exists.
What is social construction of reality?
The theoretical framework asserts that social order and social cohesion is essential to the opeartion of society.
What is functionalism?
This theorist believed identity developed in three phases; imitation stage, play stage, and game stage where the generalized other comes into fruition.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
The non-tangible aspects of culture such as the norms, laws, customs, values, beliefs, and ideas of a group of people.
What is nonmaterial culture?
The habit of only seeing things from the point of view of one’s own group
What is ethnocentrism?
This theory aligns with the idea that "we are products of our environment.
What is Differential Association Theory?
Structural Strain Theory falls under the umbrella of this theoretical framework.
What is functionalism?
This theorist presented the concept of impression management and dramaturgy.
Who is Erving Goffman?
Organizations that are large, formal, complex and based on rationality & efficiency.
What is bureaucracies?
What are the four elements of culture?
What is
–language
–norms
–beliefs
–values
This theory believes we do not have an authentic self; we switch ourselves and perform different roles depending on who we are interacting with.
What is dramaturgy?
Dramaturgy falls under the umbrella of what theoretical framework.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Max Weber beliefs fall under what theoretical framework?
What is Conflict Theory?
The ability to see the societal patterns that influence the individual as well as groups of individuals.
What is sociological imagination?
What are the four traits of McDonaldization of Society?
What is
1.Efficiency
2.Calculability
3.Predictability
4.Control
This theory believes societal reactions to an individual's wrongdoing can lead to increased deviance.
What is labeling theory?