Chapter 2: Understanding Theory

________ can be helpful in examining all types of social interactions.

________, by focusing on the need for social order & harmony, con overlooks times in the life of the society where rapid social change- even if it may lead to some social chaos is the just thing to do.

________ held that advanced capitalism is an economic system based on profit and the pursuit of maximum profit.

________ is what is being examined.

________ argue while culture /society hoes exist and is felt by the individuals it is ultimately created and sustained by social systems, which must be made more just.

________ are efforts to shape physical, verbal, visual, and gestural messages that we give to others to achieve impression management.

________ frequently use the conflict perspective to analyze how modern Westen Societies create the built environment in ways that worked for able- bodied people but not those living with disabilities.

________ can sketch fantastically intricate designs and make them become real in the world.

________ are obvious and stated reasons that a social institution exists.

________ focuses on either an individual or small groups.

________ are an unintended consequence of behavioral patterns.

________ is the rich owners of the means of production.

________ see change happening when there are large- scale, macro- structural shifts in society or institutions within one of more societies.

________ is a large- scale, macroscopic, structural shift in society.

________ is the moral order of society.

________ are material objects.

________ is the way individuals behave and interact with other people.

________ are unintended consequences of an institution.

________ are the workers, those who dont own the means of production.

________ are sets of statues and toles focused around one central aspect of society.

Communism under ________ conceptualization of communism all citizens would be queal and able to fulfill their species- being.

________ occurs when a society with organic solidarity is "healthy, "where the parts of the society are working well together.

The ________ argue that men as a category of people have greater access to social rewards than women.

The ________ is so focused on oppression they overlook movements when society is doing well.

________ is an idea that the haves use their power over the major institutions to force their values onto the have- nots as part of their effort to maintain their higher- status positions in society.

________ are groups of theories that share certain common ways of "seeing "how society works.

________ is the way of life of a particular group of people.

________ are the interactional rules that people use to guide an interaction.

________ is the unique potential to imagine and then create what we imagine.

________ are individuals involved in interactions.

________ examined social solidarity throughout history.

________ is created by one or more small number of sociologists working together, it attempts to explain a particular aspect of the social structure or a kind of social interaction between individuals.

________ can happen at any time in a persons life but is most intense in childhood.

________ is the theoretical concept to describe the isolation, dehumanizing, and disenchanting effects of working within a capitalist system of production.

________ is Marxs theory that the proletariat did not understand how they were being mistreated and misled by the owners of the means of production.

________ holds that every society creates norms, values, objects, and symbols that it finds meaningful and useful.

________ is solidarity derived from the similarity of its members.

________ is solidarity where societies operate like a living organism, with various parts, each specializing in only certain tasks but dependent on the others for survival.

________ is how the components of a society work together to maintain the society.

________ is the view of modern societies as consisting of interdependent parts working together for the good of the whole.

________ believed that after a few generations of socialism as an economic system, some of the key social institutions, such as political and economic systems, would no longer be needed and would disappear.

is the second macro-theoretical perspective

is the technology and materials needed to produce products

is the perpetually unemployed

when the proletariat are no longer in false consciousness and are aware of how they are being mistreated and misled.

under Karl Marx’s conceptualization of communism all citizens would be equal and able to fulfill their species being.

or the sense of self, is the knowledge that she or he is unique, separate from every other human

is socialization that occurs in childhood, the most intense time for socialization

are small collections of people of which a person is a member, usually for life, and in which deep emotional ties develop

is where an interaction actually takes place

is where one prepares for an interaction