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Questions: What does C. Wright Mills mean by the sociological imagination. What does Mills mean by History and Biography?
What is social structure? What thought experiment did we do in class about social structure?
How do sociologists think of the relationship between nature and nurture?
What is socialization and what is meant by agents of socialization? Be familiar with what is meant by formal and informal socialization. When in our lives do we experience socialization? What are the three main categories of what we learn through socialization? What are norms and what are the four types of norms? Be able to identify examples of each type of norm. How are norms enforced? What is the most common method of social control?
What are feeling rules? Know what emotion management and emotional labor are and how they are different. What is meant by surface acting and deep acting? Know how emotional labor can involve both suppressing or inducing emotions.
Know the difference between macro- and micro-sociology (don't worry about knowing the difference between deductive and inductive).
Be familiar with Pascoe's main argument in 'Bullying as Social Inequality' (i.e., what does she say about bullying and socialization?). What is meant by social reproduction (as introduced in the Pascoe lecture).
What is the importance of the Nuremberg Code for research involving human subjects?
What is meant by quantitative and qualitative research? Be able to identify the following methods: surveys, research interviews, participant/non-participant observation, historical/content analysis, and experiments. Know some of the basic strengths and weaknesses of surveys and interviews. Be familiar with these three potential issues in social research: Social Acceptability Bias, Response Bias, and the Hawthorne Effect.
Be familiar with Karl Marx and the theoretical tradition of social conflict theory. What is materialism, class conflict, and the means of production? What does Marx mean by labor power and why was there a preference for hiring young men who were married? What does Marx mean by alienation? What is false consciousnessand what is its effect, according to Marx? What is class consciousness?
Be familiar with Emile Durkheim and the theoretical tradition of structural functionalism. What does Durkheim mean by mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity? What is collective conscious, collective effervescence, and anomie?
Be familiar with Max Weber and the theoretical tradition of interpretivism. Be able to identify the main finding from Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. What does Weber mean by rationalization and the iron cage of capitalism? Be familiar with how Ritzer's work on McDonaldization argued that the iron cage was not possible. What is verstehen?
Be familiar with Erving Goffman and his dramaturgical sociology. What is impression management and what are the different stages where impression management is done? What is a line; what are sign vehicles and the three types? What does Goffman mean by maintaining face, preventative practices, and corrective practices?