SOCI1311 University of Texas High Suicide Rates in the UK Essay

AFTER VIEWING THE ATTACHED FILES FOR THE ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS PICK TWO THEORIES FROM THIS LIST (I explained each theory the way my professor did below) TO USE IN THE ESSAY. MUST BE FROM THIS LIST.

1. Dramaturgical Theory: Views social life as a theatrical performance in which we are all actors on a metaphysical stage, with roles, scripts, costumes, and sets.

Dress (costume)

Objects we carry (props)

What we say (scripts)

Setting (set)

2. Mid Range Theory: Attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend to function. The key to mid-range theory is that it generates falsifiable hypothesis-predictions that can be tested by analyzing the real world.

3. Functionalism: The theory that various social institutions and processes in society exist to serve some important (necessary) function to keep society running.

* According to functionalists society is like a body where the parts must work together to sustain it.

* it is made up of different social institutions that serve different functions and play different roles in creating social order.

* Functions maybe be manifest or latent.

3. Conflict Theory:

* The idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic animating force of social change and society in general.

4. Feminist Theory:

* A term for many theories with an emphasis on women’s experiences and a belief that society in general subordinates women. Emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world.

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