STUDY
GUIDE – SECOND EXAM
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
SPRING 2002 - KESSLER
The format will be
definition and short essay, similar to the first exam.
The exam will cover Chapters 5-8 and Chapter 10 in Macionis (Chapters 11
and 12 will
be covered on the final exam) all lecture material and presentations since the first exam, all
supplemental readings (see your on-line syllabus), and the following videos:
“Quiet Rage”, “Road Warriors”, and Seinfeld clips.
Chapter
Five - Socialization:
Be able to explain and
contrast the biological (nature), psychological, and sociological perspectives
(nurture) on human social development. Be
familiar with the findings from the studies of isolated children and their
contribution to the “nature versus nurture” debate.
Understand the fundamental differences between the behaviorists (for
example, Watson, Skinner and Pavlov) and the social behaviorists (Cooley and
Mead). Be able to explain the
primary assumptions of Mead’s theory of Social Self.
Be familiar with the principal agents of socialization and their
importance to the socialization process.
Chapter
Six – Social Interaction in Everyday Life:
Be
able to define and discuss Goffman’s Dramaturgical Analysis of social
interaction. Understand and be able
to explain how gender socialization reproduces inequality in everyday
interactions, including demeanor, use of space, expressions, gestures, and
language.
Chapter
Seven – Groups and Organizations:
Be able to discuss the
significance of Asch’s (line experiment) and Milgram’s (teacher-learner
experiment) findings they relate to group conformity.
Be able to define bureaucracy and discuss its origins, characteristics,
and problems. Be able to explain
what is meant by the “McDonaldization” of society and some of its social
implications.
Chapter Eight –
Deviance:
Be
able to explain and contrast the non-sociological views of deviance with the
sociological perspective and its principal premises concerning deviance.
Be familiar with the structural-functional, symbolic interaction, and
social conflict analyses of deviance and the major theories within each
paradigm. Be able to discuss how
deviance is gendered. Be able to
describe how violent and property crime arrests break down by age, gender,
social class, and race, and why. What
accounts for the higher arrest rate among African Americans?
Be able to identify, describe, and critique the four justifications for
punishment of criminals.
Be
able to define social stratification and its four basic principles.
Understand the difference between caste system and class system.
In which system would you find high status consistency and why?
Why is it that hierarchies in societies endure, and that resources are
not shared more equally? Be able to
define and discuss the functional and social conflict perspectives on social
stratification, including the Davis-Moore thesis, the Marxist analysis, and
Weber’s tri-dimensional model of inequality.
What is the difference between class and socioeconomic status (SES)?
Be
able to briefly define:
Socialization
Agents
of Socialization
Total
institutions
Resocialization
Behavioralism
Social
behavioralism
Looking-glass
self
Mead’s
concept of Self
Generalized
other
Status
Role
Social
construction of Reality
Thomas
theorem
The
presentation of self (Goffman)
Primary
group
Secondary
group
Groupthink
Bureaucracy
Bureaucratic
ritualism
Bureaucratic
inertia
Deviance
Social
control
Merton’s
(structural) strain theory
Primary
and Secondary deviance
Stigma
White-collar
crime
Corporate
crime
Organized
crime
Hate
crime
Retribution
Deterrence
Rehabilitation
Societal
Protection
Recidivism
Social
stratification
Social
mobility – intergenerational and intragenerational
Caste
system
Class
system
Meritocracy
Status
consistency
Davis-Moore
thesis
Socioeconomic
status
The
Kuznets Curve