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Briefly explain the difference between a macro-level and micro-level theoretical orientation.

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The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is:

A) an arena of conflict between categories of people.
B) the product of people interacting in everyday situations.
C) a system that operates to benefit people.
D) All of the above are correct.

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Almost all of Latin America and Asia falls within which of the following categories?

To say that a social pattern is "dysfunctional" means that it has more than one function for the operation of society.

A simplified description unfairly applied to every person in some category is referred to as:

According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher suicide rate typically has:

Sociological research shows that all categories of people have had the same opportunities to participate in sports.

Sociology is useful training for any job that involves working with people.

Which theoretical approach would highlight the fact that, on average, African American families have less income than white families?

The meaning people find in competitive sports would be one focus of a symbolic-interaction approach.

Sociologists use the term "social marginality" to refer to:

Societies around the world are more interconnected than ever before.

Do you see any dangers in adopting the sociological perspective too intensely? For example, if we say that society is at work in all our choices about how to live, do we lose any sense of personal responsibility for our actions?

In several sentences, explain the focus of the social-conflict approach.

Durkheim documented that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates.

According to Comte's approach, the kind of thinking favored by people such as Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, becomes common in a society at which stage of societal development?

A symbolic-interaction analysis focuses not on how individuals perceive a social setting but how what happens in that setting involves social inequality.

People rarely recognize all of the functions of social structure.

What did C. Wright Mills mean by "the sociological imagination"? How does this point of view change the way we see personal problems?

Social-exchange analysis is one micro-level approach to understanding social interaction.