UCLA COMM 10 MIDTERM NEWEST 2024 (SOCIAL THEORY) ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH EXAMPLES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

UCLA COMM 10 MIDTERM NEWEST 2024 (SOCIAL THEORY) ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH EXAMPLES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

What is social theory? - Answer--ideas about a subject- can be via one person, group of theorists
-not proven, not a fact
-why? explains something
-identify relationships btwn concepts
-a lens to explain what's happening in the world
-social theory actually shapes the hypothesis
-tool for analysis
-nature of society (goal of social theory- to determine this- the nature of society)

Theory can be one of 2 things: - Answer--interpretive or explanative
-structure or agency
-focus on the individual or society
-can look at structure or on cultural explanations
-base off social philosophy vs. mathematical models
-ultimate goal- explain/understand some piece of reality

Ppl have argued that social theory is= - Answer-= a long conversation w Marx w lots of misconceptions.

-Marx term- praxis (the combination of theory & practice)
theory—> practice —> theory —> practice (cycle of praxis)

-Ritzer- calls sociology a multiple paradigm science

Alienated Labor (Marx 2013- a critical theorist): - Answer--Marx considered last heir of the enlightenment
-Marx believes that labor is the core of human activity/existence
-Marx asks how much is one hour of 'you' worth ; labor is the thing that is most essentially 'us'

Alienated labor- exists of 5 different aspects: - Answer--Separating ourselves from our activity goes against human nature.
-Workers are alienated from the world because of wage labor.

-alienation= we get separated from (1) the product (goods), (2) the labor itself, (3) fellow humans, (4) ourselves, (5) nature
-commodity= something that can be bought or sold (in Marx's mind- that is us, we are the commodity working towards being sold in a market)
3 types that ppl try to fit social theories in- contradictory- - Answer-Structural functionalism, critical conflict, symbolic interactionism
(3 very different understandings of how the world works)

In sociology, a theory - Answer-is a way to explain different aspects of social interactions and to create a testable proposition, called a hypothesis, about society.
-Sociologists develop theories to explain social events, interactions, and patterns. A theory is a proposed explanation of those social interactions. Theories have different scales. Macro-level theories, such as structural functionalism and conflict theory, attempt to explain how societies operate as a whole. Micro-level theories, such as symbolic interactionism, focus on interactions between individuals.

structural functionalism - Answer-(macro or mid) (The way each part of society functions together to contribute to the whole)