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theory final exam review sheet

The final exam is scheduled for 10:30am Tuesday December 10 in our classroom.
The final exam covers the history of American sociology, W.E.B. DuBois, George Herbert Mead, 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert Merton and C. Wright Mills. 
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:


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

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

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
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

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