SQA Higher Sociology Human Society overview quiz quiz

A consensus perspective that sees society as a stable system held together by shared values

A conflict perspective that sees society as divided by class struggle over production

A social action perspective that explains society from the bottom up through meaning

A perspective that argues all big theories of society have lost their authority

The private ownership of the means of production by a ruling class

A shared collective conscience and value consensus

The labels that people attach to one another in interaction

Consumer choice and the influence of the media

The workers who own only their labour and must sell it

Sociologists who study society using evidence and theory

The ruling class who own and control the means of production

People whose identity is based on lifestyle and consumption

The everyday meanings people attach to social situations

The broad agreement on shared norms and values in a society

The biological differences between men and women

The institutions built on the economic base, such as law, education and the media

A system in which men hold most power and women are subordinated

A society in which everyone shares the same values and cooperates

The process by which children learn the norms of their society

The decline of big theories such as class and shared values

Liberal feminism

Marxist feminism

Radical feminism

Functionalist feminism

Radical feminism

Marxist feminism

Liberal feminism

Conflict feminism

Functionalism

Marxism

Postmodernism

Interactionism

A label that comes true because people act as if it were true

A shared set of values that holds a society together

The agreement between two classes over the ownership of production

A research method that uses large-scale surveys

It is fixed at birth by biology and does not change

It develops through social interaction and seeing ourselves as others see us

It is determined entirely by a person's social class

It is shaped only by the choices people make as consumers

Society is more equal than ever before and conflict has ended

Everyone now shares exactly the same set of values

Big theories such as class and shared values no longer fully explain a diverse society

Research methods can no longer produce reliable evidence

It is based on personal experience and what everyone already knows

It is based on research, evidence and theory and is open to testing

It avoids using any evidence so it stays neutral

It accepts taken-for-granted assumptions without question

Functionalism and interactionism

Interactionism and postmodernism

Functionalism and postmodernism

Marxism and feminism

They focus only on small-scale interaction and ignore society as a whole

They can neglect the meanings individuals give to their own behaviour

They refuse to use any sociological theory at all

They argue that society has no structure or institutions