SOCIOLOGY: THEN AND NOW (QUIZ) (90%) 1.) People who view society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system are said to employ the
**Answer**
D. functionalist perspective.

2.) From the following list, who did NOT influence the field of sociology during its early years?
**Answer**
C. John Lofland

3.) Functionalists view certain elements in society as , representing the negative consequences that elements have for the stability of the social system.
**Answer**
C. dysfunctional

4.) The principle of Verstehen involves
**Answer**
D. putting yourself in the place of others and trying to see situations through their eyes.

5.) A symbol is
**Answer**
B. anything that represents something else.

6.) People who focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change employ the
**Answer**
A. conflict perspective.

7.) Karl Marx coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.”
**Answer**
False.

8.) A function is the consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenance of its social system.
**Answer**
True.

9.) People who employ the interactionist perspective focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change.
**Answer**
False.

10.) An interactionist perspective
**Answer**
D. focuses on how society explains relationships. -- (WRONG!)