Macrosociology and Microsociology Seem to Make Very Different Assumptions About

question 106

Multiple Choice

Macrosociology and microsociology seem to make very different assumptions about how society works. How does sociology, as a discipline, deal with these two very different perspectives?

• A) Most sociologists are macrosociologists, making microsociologists a small minority.
• B) Most sociologists think of these two perspectives as being on a continuum with each other, adopting whatever perspective seems most useful for a particular problem.
• C) Most sociologists are microsociologists, and only a small minority still finds macrosociology a satisfying approach.
• D) Although the field is fairly evenly split between perspectives, almost all sociologists feel strongly that their perspective is the correct one.
• E) Microsociology used to dominate the field, but more recently macrosociology has become the dominant perspective.

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