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Review Quiz
Questions
Question 1: One statement from the reading that best summarizes Functionalism.
Answer: “Each part of society is functional for the stability of the whole society.”
Question 2: Functionalism holds that everyone and everything in society, no matter how
strange it may seem everything serves a purpose: How was this illustrated in the article?
Answer: Most people are used to seeing the world psychologically, where action
is thought to spring from the characteristics of the individual rather than from interaction
and social patterns. From this psychological perspective, people may explain the mass
suicide of a religious cult, say, as the result of religious fanaticism or a powerful leader or
irrational and sick persons. Although this may indeed be a partial explanation,
sociologists believe that a religious cult must also be understood as a kind of society, as
an organized group sharing a culture, as individuals influencing each other in social
interaction, as a structure with people filling positions and acting in roles, conforming to
each other's expectations, influenced by a power structure, as in any other group or
society. As another example, instead of examining the characteristics of individuals who
end up in prison, sociologists are more interested in factors relating to the positions these
people have in society: how the poverty "position" might influence criminal action,

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arrest, and imprisonment; or how power in society might play a part in how crime is
defined in the first place.
Also This was illustrated in the article by showing us the reader that crime may be
viewed as something that is not accredited/positive in society, but believe it or not even
crime in society serves a purpose. For without crime law makers (polices), many would
be without a job. Not only law makers but without crime in a society, there wouldn’t even
be a need for prison, so therefore Correctional Officers and Prison Wardens would have a
job so to speak.
Question 3: What are the criticisms of functionalism?
Answer: Criticism of functionalism is: its acceptance and rationalization of social
inequality and societal evils, also its lack of testability
 The error of reification (that is, treating something that is not alive / not
human as if it were alive / human).
 Does everything in society have a function? The usual justification for this
belief is expressed in the idea that: "We know something is functional to
society because it exists; it exists because it is functional".

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 Functionalists have a problem explaining social change (or, more correctly,
rapid social change - revolutions, for example). This is because of the
emphasis their perspective puts on:
Value consensus created through the socialization process.
Functional dependence and necessity (why, for example, should anything change if it is already
functional to society?).
Question 4: Answer true or false to the following
Answer: Social conflict perspective is all about the differences between social
groups in the society. True
Answer: Conflict perspective is essentially based on Karl Marx’s thoughts on
class struggle. True
Answer: There are various groups of people in society belonging to different
classes, religions and ideologies. True
Question 5: According to Karl Marx’s theory, society is divided into two groups: Identify
the groups and briefly explain their status.
“The Have’s”
a. The haves (the bosses/ providers of production)
“The Have’s not”

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b. The have not’s (workers of production)
The Haves’s
 The “haves” were called “capitalists” because they had all the money needed
to build new factories, mines, railways or other “means of production.”
Also “Haves” are those who are very powerful in society because they control
resources.
The Have Nots
 The capitalists would then force the “have-nots,” who he called the
“proletariat (working class),” to work for them. This situation was unfair in
the distribution of wealth within a society that would cause problems.
Also the have nots are the poor people they are powerless as they are at the
receiving ends and have to live as per the whims and fancies of rich people.
Question 6: Account for the family from each of the following perspectives:

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Answer: Interaction theory: This is where the cultural practices of the individual begin;
they develop a cognitive understanding of their society and their place in it through the
family’s social behaviors towards them.
Answer: Functionalism theory: Each member has a role to play to ensure the family
functions as a unit: the father and mother are the providers as the children goes to school
to learn how to be better providers for their families.
Answer: Conflict theory: The man (in some societies) is perceived as the provider; if
the role of the woman in the family is to be more of the provider (even though normally
regarded as the nurturer) this may result in an unstable family and a misconception/conflict
of roles each parent must play.
Question 7: How does symbolic interactionist see society?
Answer: Max Weber's assertion that individuals act according to their
interpretation of the meaning of their world, Money is a symbolic interaction that society
uses to form various bonds.
The social conception of the self-entails that individual selves are the products of social
interaction and not the logical or biological preconditions of that interaction. It is not
initially there at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity.
According to Mead, there are three activities through which the self is developed:
Language, play, and game.

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Question 8: (a). Based on the reading which perspective is the most conservative of the
sociological schools of thought? (b).Why do you think this perspective is considered the most
conservative?
Answer: The most conservative perspective would be Functionalism. To the sociologist
you can’t really go out of functionalizing to the greater good of society; whether it be crime,
poverty or a suicidal religious cult they are all functioning to the system of society.

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School: Northern Caribbean University
Teacher: Mrs. Paulene Gaye-Betten
Subject: Introduction to Sociology
Date: February 1, 2016
Group Members Names and ID#
Marlon Forrest: 20151441
Doraine Thyme:
Imuzi Thompson:
Cristal Swaby:

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Vanessa Lewis: