Question

1. Summarize conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and structural functionalism. Explain why you are in college based on each of the three theoretical perspectives. Explain which of the three theoretical perspectives best describe why you are pursuing a higher education. Include textual evidence to support your view.
2. Would you willingly participate in a sociological study, like the Stanford Prison Experiment, that could potentially put your health and safety at risk, but had the potential to help thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people? Explain the code of ethics for social research and defend if you think it is too restrictive and would prevent quality social research? Include textual evidence to support your view.

Answer 1

conflict theory:

The conflict theory, suggested by Karl Marx, claims society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources. It holds that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity.

IMPORTANCE OF CONFLICT THEORY:

Conflict theory is a way of studying society that focuses on the inequalities of different groups in a society. It is based on the ideas of Karl Marx from the 19th century, who believed a society evolved through several stages, the most important of which were feudalism, capitalism, and finally socialism.

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.

In other words, it is a frame of reference to better understand how individuals interact with one another to create symbolic worlds, and in return, how these worlds shape individual behaviors.

It is a framework that helps understand how society is preserved and created through repeated interactions between individuals. The interpretation process that occurs between interactions help create and recreate meaning. It is the shared understanding and interpretations of meaning that affect the interaction between individuals. Individuals act on the premise of a shared understanding of meaning within their social context. Thus, interaction and behavior is framed through the shared meaning that objects and concepts have attached to them.

Structural functionalism, or simplyfunctionalism, is "a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability".

The primary concepts within Functionalismare collective conscience, value consensus, social order, education, family, crime and deviance and the media. The concept of function: Functionalist sociologists like Parsons and Durkheim have been concerned with the search for functions that institutions may have in society.

Answer for Explain why you are in college based on each of the three theoretical perspectives.

So based on the conflict theory

* conflict to be the first rank holder by utilising the limited resources that were available, the one who uses all resources gets the benefits for that resources.

* Based on symbolic interactionism, we all exhibit some interactions to all positive and negative impact by the way we learn about the symbolic interactionism too.

* A college has different parts or departments in it, each department students may not be easy going with other departments but it's essential to run a college with different departments. ( Based on structural functionalism)

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