Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each paradigm to its core image of society.
- Structural functionalism
- Conflict theory
- Symbolic interactionism
- Sociological imagination
- A fabric of everyday meanings and encounters
- An arena of groups competing for resources
- A system of parts performing functions
- Linking private troubles to public issues
Hints
- Each lens asks a different question: what holds together, who benefits, what it means.
- One of them works at the level of face-to-face meaning.
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- Structural functionalism → A system of parts performing functions
- Conflict theory → An arena of groups competing for resources
- Symbolic interactionism → A fabric of everyday meanings and encounters
- Sociological imagination → Linking private troubles to public issues
Why
Three lenses plus the master skill: zoom out to functions, follow the power, zoom in to meanings, and always connect the case to the pattern.
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