SOCIOLOGY 200 – TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK 1
Please use complete sentences to answer the following questions. Each of these questions can be answered after completing the Chapter Readings (linked to the module)
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Chapter 1 Questions:
1. What do you think C. Wright Mills meant when he said that to be a sociologist, one had to develop a sociological imagination?
2. Describe a situation in which a choice you made was influenced by societal pressures.
3. Which theory do you think better explains how societies operate—structural functionalism or conflict theory? Why?
4. What is symbolic interactionism?
5. Differentiate between four kinds of research methods: surveys, field research, experiments, and secondary data analysis. In other words, what kind of data do you collect with each method?
Please provide in text Citations and references from the reading material provided chapter 1 and chapter 2. USE THE READING THAT IS REQUIRED TO COMPLETE ASSIGMENT.