Structural-Functionalist: emphasis is on order and stability, society is viewed as a system of interrelated parts, key question: How does a part contribute to overall functioning of society?, major criticism: it defends existing social arrangements, vocab/concepts: manifest and latent functions, Conflict: point of view: society is a system of accommodations among competing interest groups, social systems are unstable and are likely to change rapidly, key question: Who benefits from a pattern or existing social arrangement, and at whose expense?, major theorist: Karl Marx, major criticism: it exaggerates tension and divisions in society, Symbolic-Interactionist: micro level approach, based on belief that most of what people do has meaning beyond the concrete act, belief that the meanings that people place on their own and on one another's behavior can vary, key question: How do people make sense of the world in which they participate?, major criticism: it offers no systematic expanation for how meanings persist or change,

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