If you wanted to study the way racially grouped prison gangs throughout a society’s prisons behave toward other gangs and prison bureaucracy in order to maximize their access to space and resources, which school of sociological thought would you adopt as being the most directly applicable?
A. symbolic interaction
B. structural functionalism
C. conflict theory
D. Weber’s iron cage
Answer:C
If you wanted to study the way racially grouped prison gangs throughout a society’s prisons behave toward other gangs and prison bureaucracy in order to maximize their access to space and resources, which school of sociological thought would you adopt as being the most directly applicable?
A. symbolic interaction B. structural functionalism C. conflict theory D. Weber’s iron cage