Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2008

Sociology of Culture Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam I. (September 26 in class)

Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam I. (September 26 in class)   The exam will be closed-book and closed-notes. The format will resemble that for the quizzes: mostly short-answer and matching. 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 a life-system Culture as meaning   Historical materialism Communist revolution False consciousness “Opium of the people”   Commodification Commodity Fetishism Class consciousness   Hegemony “Organic i