Find and read a news article on a topic of interest to you -Think about how the article topic could be viewed from each of sociology’s major theoretical perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and interactionism. It will help to review the perspectives using your lecture notes and the textbook. Come up with at least one set of detailed ideas, claims, questions, or hypotheses about the topic that reflect each perspective (a total of three). Keep in mind that there are many correct answers here—theorists from each perspective would have a lot of different things to say about any topic. -If you quote or paraphrase from any source (news article, textbook, website, etc.), you must cite it with an in-text citation and a bibliography entry



