Introduction to Sociological Theory
Review Sheet for Exam 2
The exam October 31 will cover the following readings and the lectures for these sections:
Weber on Class, Stande, Conflict, and Rationalization III-13,14,15
Thorstein Veblen on the leisure class V-24
Pierre Bourdieu on the forms of capital XV-70
Max Horkheimer on Critical Theory XIII-62
Durkheim on aboriginal religion and modernity II-9,10
Weber on Calvinism and capitalism III-12
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:
Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption
Conspicuous leisure
Conspicuous waste
Max Weber
Class, Status, Power
Rationalization
Means-ends reasoning
purely technical superiority
Charismatic authority
Traditional authority
Rational-legal authority
Problem of succession
Technocracy
Meritocracy
Career ladders
Exams
Technical ability
Pierre Bourdieu
Social Capital
Cultural Capital
Economic Capital
Habitus
Social Field
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Beliefs
Values
Norms
Material Culture
High Culture
Low Culture
Popular Culture
Cultural Capital
Subcultures
Countercultures
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno
The culture industry
The Dialectic of Enlightenment
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Predestination
The sacred
The profane
Collective effervescence
Rituals
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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