Introduction to Sociological Theory
Review Sheet for Exam 1
Thursday September 26 in class
The 1st exam will cover the course readings on the syllabus through Karl Marx.
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms. Note that this list is a guide only, and everything from the lectures and readings for this section of the course can be included on the exam.
Readings:
C. W. Mills VIII-37
Weber on Verstehen III-11
Durkheim’s Suicide II-8
Marx on false consciousness I-2
Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Malthus, and Davis and Moore (lecture only)
Toennies on Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (lecture only)
Simmel on urban life IV-16, 17
Durkheim and mechanical and organic solidarity II-6
Marx on the proletariat, bourgeosie, and capitalists I-1,3,4,5
Film: "Masters of Money"
What is sociological theory?
What is a theory?
C. Wright Mills
“false consciousness”
Suicide and social integration
“Anomic Suicide”
Charles Darwin
Auguste Comte
Thomas Malthus
Herbert Spencer
Ferdinand Toennies
Emile Durkheim
Georg Simmel
Karl Marx
Functionalism
Conflict theory
Cultural Theory
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Organic analogy
Theological stage
Metaphysical stage
Positivist stage
Natural selection
“survival of the fittest”
“Laws of Population Growth”
Meritocracy
Ferdinand Toennies
Gemeinschaft (“Community”)
Gesellschaft (“Society”)
Mechanical solidarity
Organic solidarity
Anomie
Georg Simmel
Individualization
Network analysis
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The Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital
Class conflict
Capitalists
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
“Base” and “superstructure”
Control of the “means of production”
Capitalism’s “internal contradictions”
False consciousness à class consciousness
Revolutionary intellectuals
Alienation
De-skilling
Routinization
Boredom
Socialism
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