CHAPTER 1 DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT 4949 unread replies.4949 replies. Part 1 Provide paragraph-long and thorough responses for each question below in your own words. Include applicable information from the textbook or other academic sources (including films/videos) to support your explained ideas and to show your correct understanding of what you read and learned. Do not use direct quotes to respond to the questions, explain in your own words. Include in-text citation(s) after any referenced support and full references for any additional academic sources used outside of our textbook. Refer to 1.3 Theoretical Perspectives section in your textbook and "The Three Main Sociological Perspective" PDF, to help you with questions 1 and 2 below: "Theories in sociology provide us with different perspectives with which to view our social world....A perspective is simply a way of looking at the world. Sociological theories help us to explain and predict the social world in which we live. Sociology includes three major theoretical perspectives: the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective, and the symbolic interactionist perspective ...Each perspective offers a variety of explanations about the social world and human behavior" ("The Three Main Sociological Perspectives", n.d.). 1. In at least six sentences, and in your own words, explain the specific differences between functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism in their approaches to analyzing society. (15 points) 2. In at least four sentences, explain which theory you think is most useful for analyzing society? Explain why you think so. Include descriptions of real world and current examples to justify your response. (5 points) Part 2 Provide two substantive responses to a classmate's posts (back and forth dialogue) or one substantive response to two classmates' posts. Remember, your responses to your classmates should be mostly comprised of your new ideas related to this discussion topic and elaborating on your new ideas. Stay away from repeating ideas already mentioned by you or your classmates. Don't spend much of your responses mentioning what you agree with or like. (10 points) Click here to review the "Responses to Your Classmates - Dos and Don'ts PDF" I provided in the previous module, which includes examples of student responses to classmates to help you with Part 2. Click on "Next" to view the TED Talk, "Cultures at the Far Edge of the World" and begin learning about concepts from our next chapter on "Culture". References The Three Main Sociological Perspectives. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://laulima.hawaii.edu/access/content/user/kfrench/sociology/The%20Three%20Main (Links to an external site.) %20Sociological%20Perspectives.pdf