Monday, September 14, 2009

Quiz Question

A functionalist, a symbolic interactionist, and a conflict theorist walk into a bar. The bartender says he doesn't serve sociologists. Match each of the following responses to the most likely theorist:

A. “What do you mean by that?!? I'm here to drink beer, not sociologists!”

B. “You may control the distribution of beer here, but I'm the one with the gun.”

C. “If you want this bar to continue to maintain equilibrium, you will give me my beer.”

5 comments:

mybackstage said...

LMAO

Sydney said...

I love it! Do you mind if I steal it for my class?
My one worry--they won't get the interactionist because their language skills are not quite good enough.

Anomie said...

@sydney go right ahead!

lmw said...

Ah-so clever! I love it!

Anonymous said...

Trick question. Those are all responses an ethnomethodologist would give.