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Sociological Perspectives And Social Groups Worksheet
Sociological Perspectives and Social Groups Worksheet
Part 1
Complete the following table by describing how each sociological perspective views each concept. Each response should be 25 to 40 words.
Perspective
Marriage
Family
Education
Religion
Functionalist
Marriage is important for the continuity of race. According to functionalists, to some extent, marriage subjugates woman and give domination to men. Marriage is necessary thing that would be playing a crucial part in stabilizing a society.
Family is one of the most important institutions. According to functionalists, it is the basic building block. Its main function is to provide emotional support to its members. Family also helps in teaching individuals, how to socialize with other by taking norms and values in considerations.
According to the functionalist perspective, school is the most important figure that is going to prepare a student for participation in various institutions of society. Education is crucial for making an individual a part of the economic, social and political institution.
According to the functionalist perspective, religion assist in building a consciousness that would be collective. Religion helps in binding people in common relation and gives them a feeling of togetherness. Emotion is another component of religion. Religion also gives a feeling of belonging to people.
Conflict
It is the theory that focuses on the power struggle in marriage that exists between men and women. According to this conflict perspective marriage places men in power-class and women in a much lower class and there is a change in these roles as well.
Conflict perspective looks at family as a vehicle that would maintain patriarchy as well as the inequality that exist in society. It also sees that family benefit men more than women.
This theory is important for maintaining inequality in society. It also helps in preserving power of those who dominates the society. It enables the working class to accept their position as lower class of the society.
According to this perspective, religion helps for calming the uncertainty over the role that an individual is assigned by the universe or society. Religion also promises rewards for good deeds and punishment for evil deeds.
Symbolic Interactionist
As per this perspective, marriage is the central unit of life and is based on negotiated meanings. It helps in building emotional bonds among people.
According to this theory, family is the main element that inculcates and rejuvenates bond between members through symbolic rituals. Family meals and holidays promote interaction among people of a family.
Interaction between student and teacher helps in developing a set of expectations. In this theory it has been highlighted that student’s performance in both academic as well as discipline is important.
According to this perspective, a society is built on various ideas that are made on the interpretation of different objects, behaviour and events. This theory believes that religion is constructed socially and social change is one of reason of its emergence.
Part 1
Respond to the following in 50 to 75 words each:
Describe the characteristics of primary and secondary groups and how these groups function in society.
Secondary groups are larger whereas primary groups are smaller in size. Primary groups are more informal than the secondary groups. Secondary groups hold short-term relations as compared to the primary groups in which members used to have long term relations.
Primary groups help in providing emotional support.
Secondary groups help in fulfilling the increasing human needs.
Explain the main differences between primary and secondary groups.
In primary groups, members are closely knitted and are more intimate. Primary groups consist of small scale. It could be seen that in primary groups there comes family and friends. In primary group, relation is not formal. On the other hand, there comes secondary group that is greater as compared to the primary group. Secondary groups are impersonal and are for short time period. Secondary group includes colleagues etc. In secondary groups, relations are informal.
Describe the different aspects of group dynamics that influence social groups.
There are various aspects of group dynamics that influence social groups in a society and these are four in numbers. Aspects that influence the social groups are given below:
Communication and way of interaction
Interpersonal interaction
Social integration that includes power, influence, roles and norms etc.
Development of the groups.
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