Introduction to Sociological Theory
Review Sheet for Final Exam: Sociological Theory in
(Thursday May 8, 10:30-12:30 am - as far as I know!!)
The final exam covers the overview of sociology in
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms, although this list is not exhaustive:
Urbanization
Immigration
Progressive Movement
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
William Graham Sumner
The
Urban Ethnography
Symbolic Interactionism
Robert Park
Charles Horton Cooley
George Herbert Mead
Structural Functionalism
Talcott Parsons
“The Structure of Social Action”
Neo-Marxism
Critical Theory
Social Constructionism
Feminist Theory
Post-positivism and post-modernism
W.E.B. DuBois
“color line”
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
“double-consciousness”
“the veil”
“the talented tenth”
“colortocracy”
The
The
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Marcus Garvey
C. Wright Mills
Radical sociology
“The Power Elite”
Triangle of Power
“military-industrial complex”
Social revolts against the power elite
“The Sociological Imagination” (1959)
Gender Inequality
Charlotte Perkins Gillman
“Women and Economics” (1998)
Nuclear family
Gender socialization
Sex differences
George Herbert Mead
Mind, Self, and Society
the "other"
the "generalized other"
the "I"
the "me"
pragmatist philosophy
rational choice economics
behaviorist psychology
the self-concept
"play" and "game"
Robert Merton
self-fulfilling prophecy
role model
bureaucratic personality
manifest and latent functions
dysfunctions
unintended consequences
middle-range theory
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
phenomenology
world-openness
plasticity
species-specific environment
sociology of knowledge
recipe knowledge
habitualization
institutionalization
sedimentation
reifications
internalization
mythology, theology, philosophy, and science
universe
primary socialization
secondary socialization
