SOC 1: FALL2014

LAMC: KLEIN

STUDY GUIDE #1

CH. 1- 4 + NOTES

CH. 1:

The Sociological Imagination- C. Wright Mills (central thesis, history and biography, private troubles and public issues)

  • The sociological perspective
  • How we know what we know in daily life versus science
  • The development, features, and goals of science
  • Sociology
  • Auguste Comte
  • Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
  • Karl Marx and class conflict
  • Emile Durkheim
  • social integration
  • suicide
  • anomie
  • Max Weber: the spirit of capitalism
  • Value-free research, value neutrality: how do we ensure non-biased research?
  • Jane Addams
  • Harriet Martineau
  • W.E.B DuBois
  • What is a paradigm?
  • Theoretical perspectives:
  • Symbolic Interactionism
  • Functional analysis
  • Latent and manifest functions
  • Conflict Theory
  • Levels of analysis
  • The pillars of science - notes
  • Two types of sociology -notes
  • Two kinds of science - notes
  • Replication - notes
  • Publication – notes
  • The scientific continuum - notes

CH. 2

  • Types of knowledge: experience, cultural tradition, faith, authority and science
  • How we know what we know in everyday life differs from science
  • Sociology as science
  • Theory building
  • The scientific method
  • Types of research
  • The relationship between theory and methods
  • Combining research methods – triangulation

CH. 3:

  • What is a group? What is society?
  • Sociocultural evolution? The transformation of society? The Key to transformation?
  • What are the social revolutions that brought about change? Which type of society/societies did this lead to? Be able to identify and explain the social changes.
  • What is culture?
  • Important points re: culture
  • Material: key component? Significance?
  • Nonmaterial/symbolic: key component? Significance?
  • Symbol
  • language
  • Virtual communities?
  • Values and norms
  • Positive and negative sanctions
  • Formal and informal
  • U.S. core values
  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • Taboos
  • Laws
  • Moral holidays
  • Moral holiday places
  • Beliefs
  • Culture shock
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Cultural relativism
  • Subcultures and countercultures
  • Multiculturalism
  • Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism
  • High culture/low culture (folk culture) debate
  • Aesthetic gatekeepers
  • Cultural capital
  • Popular culture
  • Ideal culture/real culture
  • Cultural lag
  • Cultural diffusion
  • Cultural leveling
  • Assimilation

CH. 4:

  • Nature vs. nurture
  • Socialization, desocialization, resocialization, anticipatory socialization, primary socialization, adult socialization, developmental socialization, socialization over the life course
  • Self? Personality?
  • The “I” and the “me”
  • The “looking-glass self”
  • Definition
  • 3 successive steps
  • The situated self
  • Agents of socialization: define, explain and identify the various agents
  • Formal, hidden, corridor curriculum
  • Role taking: significant others, generalized other
  • Total institution
  • Degradation ceremony