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Reading Activities and Notes Chapter 1 Section 2 Comprehension Exercise 19.5/20 Directions: Record the notes that are posted around the room. When finished recording the notes, use these notes and the text book to complete the following items. Answer questions 2-9 in complete sentences. 1. In your own words, define the following terms found in the chart below. In the far right column, write the perspective that would be most likely to use this word. Term Dysfunctional Manifest Function Latent Function Symbol Symbolic Interaction Ideal Type Verstehen Social Darwinism Definition Perspective Something that doesn’t perform its function so that society doesn’t work smoothly. Something that in invented to perform its certain role. Functionalist Something that invented with some negative effect functionalist Something represents something else. The process how symbol are used when penetrating the meaning Describing something necessary for society and that is what the society should be Attempt to understand why people act interactionalist The idea that evolution plays the role of function funcionalist functionalist interactionalist interactionalist interactionalist 2. What were the social and political changes that were the result of growing cities? Social and political changes replaced home as a working place. Increasing of factory made people who live in countryside to go to go to the city to look for the jobs. 3. How did scientists attempt to understand these rapid changes? They tried to prove their beliefs through observation, controlled experiment, and careful collection and analysis of information. 4. What were the topics of interests for the five early sociologists? Auguste Comte: the cause and consequence of French revolution and social order and social change. Herbert Spencer: adopting Biological model of society. Karl Marx: The structure of society is influenced by how its economy is organized. Emile Durkheim: function of religion in maintaining social order Max Weder: separate group within the society rather than in society as a whole. 5. What do the three theoretical perspectives study, and which of the founders of sociology is connected to which perspective? Functionalist: study society by viewing it as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system. ---- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim Conflict: Study society by focusing on the force in society that promotes competition and change. ------ Karl Marx Interactionalist: Study society by focusing on how individuals respond to one another in everyday situation. ----- Max Weder Reading Activities and Notes 6. How did Herbert Spencer’s belief in the survival of the fittest influence his view of social unrest? His belief is similar to idea of Darwin so that his view of a society becomes known as Social Darwinism. 7. Below is a chart that contains the types of perspectives and issues that sociologists study. In the appropriate box, explain how that perspective might examine or study the issue. See page 3 for more description concerning these three issues. Issues Internet’s effect on Society Marriage life Crime Functionalist Conflict Interactionist How one user or company interacts with the other. Function of user and company Conflict between some users and the others. Function of people who marry and their parents or people who don’t marry Conflict between people who marry and people who don’t marry How people who marry are interacted. Function of police and criminals Conflict between people who caused the criminal How people interact with the other and its causes 8. Review your answers in the chart above. Are some issues better to study with one perspective and maybe not as good with other perspectives? Explain. I think that to study the internet’s effect on Society, we had better to study in Functionalist perspective and Conflict perspective because I hope that these perspective can reveal the issue. 9. Which of the three theoretical perspectives do you think is the best? Explain why you believe this. I think Functionalist is the best because I agree with the concept of this perspective. I experienced that everyone have to play their role appropriately to achieve something.