Midterm 1 Study guide

SOC 201A

Midterm 1

Study guide

Know about the following items, or be able to answer the following questions.

CHAPTER 1: Sociology: Theory and Method

1. Personal troubles and public issues

2. C. Wright Mills and the sociological imagination

3. Theories

4. Auguste Comte

5. Émile Durkheim and organic solidarity

6. Karl Marx and this critique of capitalism

7. Max Weber and bureaucracy

8. Symbolic interactionism

9. Functionalism and manifest and latent functions

10. Steps to doing sociological research

11. Hypotheses

12. Types of research methods

13. Why is a larger random sample more desirable in survey research?

CHAPTER 2: Culture and Society

14. Values

15. Norms

16. Material goods

17. Society

18. Nature versus nurture

19. Sociobiology and reproductive strategies

20. Subcultures

21. Assimilation

22. Multiculturalism

23. Ethnocentrism

24. Cultural relativism

25. Types of societies – hunter-gatherer, agrarian, civilizations, industrial

26. Industrialization

27. Nationalism

Sociology and other ways of knowing (lecture notes)

28. Compare sociology to other ways of knowing

29. In the past 30 years, what has happened to the divorce rate?

30. What year saw the lowest recorded teen birth rate in the US?

31. According to the lecture, high rates of alcoholism among Native Americans and high rates of hypertension and heart disease among African Americans are caused by what?

32. The critical nature of sociology

Sociological imagination (lecture notes)

33. The sociological imagination, social causes and social solutions, and C. Wright Mills

Theoretical approaches (lecture notes)

34. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore

35. The symbolic interactionist perspective

36. Howard Becker and marijuana smokers

37. Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

38. What do Marx and Engels think will happen when those who own the economy can no longer effectively manage the forces they have created?

Research Methods (lecture notes)

39. What should you consider when doing survey research?

Culture and Society (lecture notes)

40. According to Kim McDonald, why do women in some societies in South America, like the Bari of Venezuela, have multiple sex partners?

41. Karl Heider and the Dani of New Guinea

42. Deborah Tolman and Lisa Diamond, sexual desire in Western and Islamic societies

43. Ideal and real culture

44. Is sex believed to be pleasurable in all societies?

45. Ann Swidler, love, and cultural “toolkit”