Principles of Sociology – SOCL 201

TEST 1 REVIEW

Fall 2010

Concepts:

Social Darwinism

Positivism

Values

Norms

Mores

Taboos

Culture (Material and non-material)

Sanctions (Positive and negative)

Gestures

Subculture

Counterculture

Total Institutions

Social Institutions

Status (Ascribed and Achieved)

Role

Groups (Primary and Secondary)

In-group and out-group

Cliques

Reference groups

The iron law of oligarchy

Bureaucracies

Bureaucratic red tape

Bureaucratic alienation

People:

Harriet Martineau

Jane Addams

W. E. B. DuBois

George Herbert Mead

Talcott Parsons

Charles Horton Cooley

Karl Marx

W.I. Thomas

Ernest Burgess

Auguste Comte

Herbert Spencer

Theories:

Conflict theory

Structural functionalism

Symbolic interactionism

According to sociologists our thinking and motivation are largely determined by_____

Development of sociology as a science was influenced by______

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

William Ogburn and culture

Studies of isolated and institutionalized children reveal….

Charles Horton Cooley’s Looking Glass Self

Mead's Theory of Role Taking

                3 Stages (Imitation, Play, and Games)

I and Me (Subject and Object)

Freud:

Id

Ego

Superego

Gender socialization

As we proceed on our life course, the events we experience are largely influenced by (See beginning of CH 4)

The two sociological perspectives that focus on the broader picture or the macrosociological approach, are_____

History of Society:

Eras –

Hunting and gathering

Pastoral and horticultural society

Agricultural society

Industrial society

Post-Industrial

Relationship between specific technologies and advances to new eras of society

The issue of social inequality first became a fundamental feature of social life in the ________ society.

George Ritzer maintains that the organizational features of the fast food industry have

gradually seeped into many aspects of human social life. He describes this process as___

Characteristics of bureaucracies

With respect to group size, Georg Simmel noted that:

Berger’s “Invitation to Sociology”

Lawson and Leck’s “Hooking Up on the Internet,”

Dyer’s “Anybody’s Son Will Do”