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”