Introduction to Sociological Theory
Prof. Gabe Ignatow
Review Sheet for
The 1st mid-term exam will cover the course readings on the syllabus through (i.e. including) Pierre Bourdieu.
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:
C. Wright Mills
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Emile Durkheim
Thorstein Veblen
Charles Darwin
Auguste Comte
Thomas Malthus
Herbert Spencer
Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
Ferdinand Toennies
Georg Simmel
Thorstein Veblen
Pierre Bourdieu
What is sociological theory?
What is a theory?
“false consciousness”
Suicide and social integration
Functionalism
Conflict theory
Inequality
Cultural Theory
Values
Rituals
Socialization
Organic analogy
Theological stage
Metaphysical stage
Positivist stage
Natural selection
“survival of the fittest”
“Laws of Population Growth”
Meritocracy
Gemeinschaft (“Community”)
Gesellschaft (“Society”)
Mechanical solidarity
Organic solidarity
Anomie
Individualization
“The Metropolis and Mental Life”
Network analysis
“The Communist Manifesto”
“Das Capital”
Class conflict
Capitalists
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
“Base” and “superstructure”
Control of the “means of production”
Capitalism’s “internal contradictions”
False consciousness à class consciousness
Revolutionary intellectuals
Alienation
De-skilling
Routinization
Boredom
Socialism
“Conspicuous consumption”
“Conspicuous leisure”
“Conspicuous waste”
Class, Status, Power
Rationalization
Means-ends reasoning
“purely technical superiority”
Charismatic authority
Traditional authority
Rational-legal authority
Problem of succession
Technocracy
Meritocracy
Career ladders
Exams
Technical ability
Social space
Power field
Economic capital
Social capital
Cultural capital
Class reproduction
“habitus”