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which metanarrative states that the distribution of wealth and income is uneven between and within social classes?
Feminists
Interpretivists
Marxists
Positivists
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Functionally important roles are...
Roles that have the greatest responsibility to direct and organise others
Roles that are found in every known society
Key positions in society that are essential for its survival
The roles that require the highest level of skill
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The real life perspective argues that which relationships can be considered family?
Pets, dead relatives, online friends
Pets, dead relatives, donor conceived children
Same sex couples, work colleagues
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What are social issues?
Problems caused by individuals that impact society
Problems caused by society that impact individuals
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How did Foucault demonstrate his understanding of power in society...
Surveillance
Charismatic authority
Force
The Panoptic Model
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Who spoke of the 'presentation of self'?
Goffman
Giddens
Mead
Blume
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Which theory believes that the family is a unit of consumption?
Functionalism
Marxism
Feminism
The new right
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How does Weber define social class?
Having political and economical power
Groups that could be identified by the prestige or honour attached to them.
A group of people who have similar access to life chances.
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Sanctions are...
Ways of punishing bad behaviour
ways of rewarding or punishing un/acceptable behaviour
ways of rewarding good behaviour
any reaction to behaviour imposed by law
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Which are features of Murdocks definition of family?
Children: own or adopted
group with common residence, reproduction & economic benefit
Socially approved sexual relationship
All of the above
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When was same sex marriage legalised in the UK?
2013
2015
2012
2014
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Why do new right theorists believe that two parent socialisation is necessary?
It creates an underclass in society
Women should not raise children alone
Delinquency and antisocial behaviour are likely without it
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Which ideology states society will be UNABLE to function, if everyone has equal power, wealth and authority?
Functionalists
Interpretivists
Feminists
Marxists
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Who are the bourgeoisie?
Lower class
Ruling class
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If you conform to society, you are...
Acting in a way that your parents expect
Acting against society’s norms and values
Acting in a way that is deviant
Acting in accordance to norms and values
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What is the nurture vs nature debate?
Whether our behaviour is inherited or genetic
A problem caused by society
The primary socialisation we receive and its impact
whether our behaviour is biological or environmental
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Who spoke of the 4 essential functions of the family in 1949?
Bell
Vogel
Parsons
Murdock
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Benson said women in society are viewed as...
Lower than men
A reserve army of labour
Subservient
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A general agreement across a society on a set of values...
status quo
manipulation
conformity
consensus
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Who are the lower working class according to Marx's ideology?
The proletariat
The bourgeoise
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What is the functional fit theory?
Explanation of how family changed in pre/post industrial society
How families function in every society
Families and geographical mobility
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Functionalists liken the family to...
A refuge
An organism
A political sphere
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What is the name given to a family that consists of multiple generations?
Nuclear
Extended
Reconstituted
Linear
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The idea that our perception of what is real is created through a variety of historical &cultural processes is...
culture
social identity
sub-culture
social construction
25
Mirza 1997 argued that...
Equal opportunities still do not exist
Black women are doubly disadvantaged by race & gender
It is impossible to have a universal definition of feminism
Black women's experiences are different to any other ethnic group
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Which theory is based on consensus?
Marxism
Functionalism
Feminism
Postmodernism
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Left wing politics believes that...
The nuclear family is the best structure
The poor should pay just as much tax as the rich
All wealth should be redistributed equally
People should not depend on welfare
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Define socialisation
Process of learning how to avoid going to prison
Process of learning your culture and religion
Process of learning to behave in socially acceptable way
Process of learning the laws of your country
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Parsons added which feature to Murdocks 4 essential functions?
Stabilisation of adult personalities
Socialisation
Economic stability
Reproduction
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Which two theories are based on conflict?
Marxism interactionism
Feminism functionalism
Interactionism feminism
Marxism feminism
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Which sociological theory is also known as political functionalism?
The new right
Interactionism
Difference feminism
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power is the ability to make others do what you want, even against their own will
True
False
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Primary socialisation takes place within education
True
False
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A form of sociology that focuses on analysing society in terms of its institutional relationships and their effects
Phenomenology
Determinism
Structuralism
Interactionism
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According to Durkheim, which 3 characteristics are needed for a fully functoning society...
value consensus, collective conscience, social solidarity
social solidarity, collective conscience, formal control
religious beliefs, collective conscience, formal control
ideological apparatus, value consensus, social solidarity
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Which two theories would be considered structuralist?
Feminism and Interactionsism
Interactionism and personal life
Marxism and functionalism
Personal life and functionalism
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A set of ideas an ideals which explains how society works or should work
norms
theory
values
ideology
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Actions that go against the norms and values of a society are...
conformity
deviance
anomie
crime
