Sociology of the Arts and Popular Culture
Prof. Gabe Ignatow
Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam II:
Neo-Weberians, Cultural Anthropology, and the Sociology of Culture
(November 14 in class)
The format of the 2nd mid-term exam will be more-or-less the same as that of the first mid-term.
The exam will cover the following readings:
- Samuel Huntington, Cultures Count and Lawrence Harrison, Why Culture Matters (handout)
- Ruth Benedict, “The Diversity of Cultures” (Spillman)
- Clifford Geertz, Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture (Spillman)
- Richard Shweder, Moral Maps, "First World" Conceits, and the New Evangelists (handout)
- Michele Lamont, Symbolic Boundaries and Status (Spillman)
- Bethany Bryson, Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes (Spillman)
- The lectures on Pierre Bourdieu
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:
Neo-Weberians
“Clash of Civilizations”
Colonialism
Neo-colonialism
Economic dependency
equality
civility
individualism
time orientation
religious outlook
optimism versus pessimism
trust and social capital
rationality
Synchronic
Diachronic
Culture as text
Cultural Functionalism
Indigenous cultures
Cultural destruction
Cultural Relativism
Culture and personality
“national character”
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
“thick description”
“thin description”
Recurring themes
Symbolism
Ethnography
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
Distinction
Social space
Power field
Habitus
Social Capital
Economic capital
Cultural capital
Social reproduction
“The Dinner Game”
Symbolic boundaries
Boundary work
Moral boundaries
Cultural Boundaries
Economic boundaries
Symbolic exclusion
Musical exclusion
Musical tolerance
Patterned tolerance
Multicultural capital