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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. DuBois
Fisk University
color line
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
double-consciousness
the veil
the talented tenth
colortocracy
The Philadelphia Negro (1899)
The University of Pennsylvania
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Marcus Garvey


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