Final Exam Sociology

The book has a section entitled, “Marriage is traditional” and in that particular section it mentioned about how “marriage has changed over time.” When examined current day marriage trends show that people are looking for partnership or soul mates, not for the most traditional reasons of the past. The idea that one person is supposed to be with one person for the rest of their life is no longer relevant. It is possible to have many happy years with one person, but that does not mean that these people will die together. People can have a falling out. Situations change—people do grow. If people stayed stagnant their whole lives, where would society be? With the way

Cooley argues that our self develops through interactions and our impressions about how other people see us. Do you think that he is correct? Why or why not?

Chapter 3 of The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology explains to the reader what culture is and goes into depth of the different concepts within culture. It defines culture as “the entire way of life for a group of people” (Ferris & Stein, 2010, p. 77). Culture is described as a “lens” through which one views the world and is passed from one generation to the next. This “entire way of life”, according to sociologists, consists of two major categories: material and symbolic culture. Material culture involves the entities associated with a cultural group, such as tools, machines, utensils, buildings, and artwork. When examining material culture, it can convey a great deal about a particular group or society. Symbolic culture embraces ways

Amalgamation-(melting pot) all groups should combine their traditions calues and characteristics with one another to create a new group.

a. Harry Harlow – surrogate mother experiment pg.111 must read and notes contact and comfort

After reading both chapters 8 and 9, they both discuss the relationships between the productions and consumption of contemporary popular music and how complex they are. In these both chapters sociologist has studied the different aspects of popular music and popular music in the society. In chapter 8, one section that really stood out to me was, the ‘Young people and cultural productivity’. In the beginning of this section it states that “Willis and his colleagues (1990) argue that as human beings we are symbolically creative, saying that ‘we argue for symbolic creativity as an integral (“ordinary”) part of human conditions, not as inanimate peaks rising above the mists’ “. In other words, humans like to create meaning to everything, including the music we listen to.

The purpose of this paper is to construct an essay and define the sociological perspective. To be able to explain how my knowledge of the Sociological Perspective has helped me to understand the social world on both a macro and micro level. This essay will include the definition, discussion and application of specific sociological terms, concepts and theories.

In the essay For Better, For worse: Marriage Means Something Different Now Stephanie Coontz tells us about the history of marriage and how it has changed. It all started with a woman only marrying because they wanted to work in the house and have kids. Through the years the woman had started to become more attached and people cannot handle it. It started with them marrying for economic purposes and then it moved to more of an affection towards the male. She explains all this with some story and background and then she goes into detail about all of it.

Chapter four’s main idea is the effect of social class on education. As this chapter lays out, there is a strong relationship between student achievement and the various schools that students attend. Research from the Coleman Report shows that “differences in achievement across race and socioeconomic status are not easily explained by differences in school-based resources.” (Banks and Banks, pg. 65)

What is Marriage ? Some might say it is when two people are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. What is love ? Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Reading that definition it is really not specific about what that deep affection is attracting. Love and Marriage had a different meaning in the 1800’s in comparison to today's time period. Jane Austen's romantic novel Pride and Prejudice displays marriage during the 1800’s as only for money and higher rankings on the social class “Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.” ( Austen) You would rarely see a female marry someone less wealthy than her. It was frowned upon ; it was more appropriate to be a “ Older” unmarried woman than a woman who has married for

Functionalism looks at society as a part of many small parts that work together to meet the needs of a society. Conflict Theory sees society as a "survival of the fittest". Society is viewed as a competition with a finite amount of resources with people in society competing for resources such as education, jobs, and housing. Symbolic Interactionist Theory looks at how people interact with each other. This theory emphasizes that communication is the key to allow people to understand the society they are living

Nowadays we see people of all races, social status, and age getting married (freedom of choice). For example, we sometime see younger people marrying older people to inherit their life savings or to have someone mature to talk to. Other reasons might be to live a luxurious life or gain something from the spouse’s items. Joanne Jaime gives a good example in which she

Identify the four major sociological theoretical paradigms. For each, what are the key tenets? How does each explain how society works?

This would have been a big step for a woman living in a society in which the sole purpose of that particular gender was to marry well. She also had daily proof of how marriage might not bring happiness in her own parent’s relationship. She sees their shortcomings as husband and wife and sees the shortcomings of not being able to respect your life’s partner and vows that only the deepest of love would ever induce her to matrimony ( Austen 68 ) . This kind of decision would have had to invoke a lot of thought towards the future and shows a mind that is able to grasp larger concepts and does not just follow the crowd.

Functionalist and Marxist are macro sociological theories that give a better understanding of the society. Functionalist theory is referred to as the consensus whilst the Marxist theory is known as the conflict theory. Key features of both theories are going to be identified and discussed.