Exam 6: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: the Later Years

Which theoretical area focuses on the recent and widespread changes that transformed almost everything about the modern world throughout the last half century?

Poststructuralism grew out of postmodernism.

Erving Goffman's dramaturgical analysis is incompatible with symbolic interactionism.

Which theoretical area tries to overcome sociology's historical emphasis on production by focusing on the use of goods and services?

What does the theoretical syntheses movement in sociological theory hope to link together?

Talcott Parsons is best described as a structural functionalist because he theorized about both social structures and action systems.

While structural functionalists always had critics, when did it become apparent that the dominance of this theory was in jeopardy?

Contemporary theorists claim race ______.

Herbert Spencer was more influential to early sociology in the Americas than in Europe.

Ethnomethodology was developed as a critique of phenomenology.