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Exam 1 Review Sheet, Sociology of the Arts and Popular Culture

Sociology of the Arts and Popular Culture

Prof. Gabe Ignatow

Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam I. (October 10 in class)

The 1st mid-term exam will cover the following readings:

  1. William Sewell jr., The Concept(s) of Culture (handout)
  2. Philip Smith, Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? (Smith)
  3. Lynn Spillman, Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology (Spillman)
  4. Philip Smith, 37-57
  5. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (Spillman)
  6. Habermas, Jurgen “On Systematically Distorted Communication”
  7. Philip Smith, 13-18
  8. Max Weber, “The Social Psychology of the World Religions” (handout)
  9. Max Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism” (handout)
  10. Bryan Turner, Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses

You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:

Karl Marx

George Lukacs

Antonio Gramsci

Horkheimer and Adorno

Jurgen Habermas

Max Weber

Bryan Turner

“Prison Notebooks”

“The Dialectic of Enlightenment”

“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”

Newtonian paradigm

Positivism

Hypothesis testing

Cause-and-effect relationshipgs

“linguistic turn”

“cognitive revolution”

Sociology of culture

Cultural sociology

Culture as “cultivation”

Folk culture

Culture as learned behavior

Culture as creativity/agency

Culture as systems of symbols and meanings

Culture as a life-system, way of life

Culture as meaning

Historical materialism

Communist revolution

False consciousness

“Opium of the people”

Commodification

Commodity Fetishism

Class consciousness

Hegemony

“Organic intellectuals”

Culture industry

“lowest common denominator”

Public sphere

Life-world

System-world

Communicative reason

Colonization of the life-world

Verstehen

Value-rationality

Purposive rationality

Salvation

Theodicy

Calvinism

Bryan Turner

Islamic asceticism

Sufi mystics

“Sultanism”

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