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theory final exam review sheet

The final exam is scheduled for 10:30am Tuesday December 11 in our classroom. The final exam covers George Herbert Mead, C. W. Mills, Robert Merton, and Charlotte Perkins Gillman. You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms: George Herbert Mead Mind, Self and Society Behaviorism Perspective-taking Social sources of the self The other The generalized other The “I” and the “me” “Play” and “game” C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination The Power Elite White Collar Triangle of Power Robert Merton Manifest functions Latent functions Unintended consequences Rain dance Anti-gambling laws Voluntary organizations The Communist Party Self-fulfilling prophecy Role model Middle-range theory Charlotte Perkins Gillman Gender Inequality “Women and Economics” (1998) Nuclear family Gender socialization Sex differences Women’s economic independence from men Public day care Cooperative kitchens

extra credit opportunities

Dear students, Just  wanted to let you all know that there will be  3    opportunities            for extra credit before the final exam: 1)  1 - 5  points for SPOT participation  (will explain in class) 2)  3  points for completion of the theory proficiency exam in class  1 1 / 2 7 3)  extra credit on the last quiz  (either  1 1 / 2 9  or 12/4)

review sheet for exam 2 November 8

Introduction to Sociological Theory Review Sheet for Exam 2 The exam November 8 will cover the following readings and the lectures for these sections: Pierre Bourdieu XV-70, History of American sociology (lecture only), W.E.B. DuBois V-22 You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms: Pierre Bourdieu Social Capital Cultural Capital Economic Capital Habitus Social Field Symbolic Power Symbolic Violence Reconstruction Urbanization Immigration Oberlin College Yale University University of Kansas University of Chicago Progressive Movement Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer William Graham Sumner The Chicago School Urban Ethnography Symbolic Interactionism Robert Park Charles Horton Cooley George Herbert Mead Structural Functionalism Talcott Parsons Social System Personality System Cultural System equilibrium Neo-Marxism Feminist Theory Postmodernism Cultural Theory W.E.B. Du