C. Wright Mills
This exam covers all materials and lectures in your assigned reading covers so far this quarter. Choose three of the four questions below. For EACH one chosen, write a 2-3 paragraph response. In your response, be sure to refer to specific concepts from the readings, lecture notes, and/or discussions, and use these concepts to support your answer. Please state the question prior to your answer.
- Define the sociological perspective or imagination, cite its components, and explain how they were defended by C. Wright Mills.
- What is meant by the terms “ascribed status” and “achieved status” provide an example to illustrate how a person’s ascribed status could influence his or her achieved status.
- Discuss how conflict theorists focus on social inequality and group conflict.
- Discuss the six types of leaders that could be in a social institution.This exam covers all materials and lectures in your assigned reading covers so far this quarter. Choose three of the four questions below. For EACH one chosen, write a 2-3 paragraph response. In your response, be sure to refer to specific concepts from the readings, lecture notes, and/or discussions, and use these concepts to support your answer. Please state the question prior to your answer.
- Define the sociological perspective or imagination, cite its components, and explain how they were defended by C. Wright Mills.
- What is meant by the terms “ascribed status” and “achieved status” provide an example to illustrate how a person’s ascribed status could influence his or her achieved status.
- Discuss how conflict theorists focus on social inequality and group conflict.
- Discuss the six types of leaders that could be in a social institution.This exam covers all materials and lectures in your assigned reading covers so far this quarter. Choose three of the four questions below. For EACH one chosen, write a 2-3 paragraph response. In your response, be sure to refer to specific concepts from the readings, lecture notes, and/or discussions, and use these concepts to support your answer. Please state the question prior to your answer.
- Define the sociological perspective or imagination, cite its components, and explain how they were defended by C. Wright Mills.
- What is meant by the terms “ascribed status” and “achieved status” provide an example to illustrate how a person’s ascribed status could influence his or her achieved status.
- Discuss how conflict theorists focus on social inequality and group conflict.
- Discuss the six types of leaders that could be in a social institution.