Theory And Debates

Question 1

What are the 4 functions for functionalism?

Answer 1

1) the organic analogy
2) value consensus and social disorder
3) the systems needs: GAIL
4) STRETCH: research method link

Question 2

What are the 4 functions for Marxism?

Answer 2

1) ideology
2) Marxist feminism
3) neo Marxism
4) the state, revolution and communism

Question 3

What are 5 different feminists?

Answer 3

1) liberal
2) radical
3) marxist
4) black
5) difference

Question 4

What are 5 different social action theories?

Answer 4

1) Max Weber
2) Symbolic Interactionalism - George Mead
3) Erving Goffman - the dramaturgical analogy
4) Labelling theory - Becker
5) Labelling theory - Cooley

Question 5

What are the 4 functions for postmodernism?

Answer 5

1) loss of monopoly of the truth
2) choice, identity and consumptions
3) globalisation
4) hyper reality and stimulation

Question 6

What are 4 factories to why sociology can and should be a science?

Answer 6

1) positivists
2) objectivity
3) paradigm shift
4) some sociology can be falsified

Question 7

What are the 4 factors for why sociology cannot and should not be a science?

Answer 7

1)interpretivists
2) committed sociology
3) paradigms
4) falsification

Question 8

What are the 5 factors for why sociology should be value free?

Answer 8

1) early positivists
2) modern positivist
3) positivists (Durkheim)
4) methods (experiments)
5) weber

Question 9

What are the 5 factors for why sociology should be value driven?

Answer 9

1) committed sociology
2) criticism of funding bodies
3) interpretivists
4) gouldner
5) limitations of experiments

Question 10

What are the 4 factors for why sociology can and should influence social policy

Answer 10

1) functionalism and positivism
2) social democrats
3) liberal feminism
4) new right

Question 11

What are the 4 factors for why sociology cannot and should not influence social policy?

Answer 11

1) piecemeal approach does not work
2) Marxists
3) difference feminism
4) radical feminism