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Midterm 1 Review Sheet, Introduction to Sociological Theory

Introduction to Sociological Theory

Prof. Gabe Ignatow

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

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”

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