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Sociology of Culture Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam I. (September 26 in class)

Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam I. (September 26 in class)

 The exam will be closed-book and closed-notes. The format will resemble that for the quizzes: mostly short-answer and matching.


You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:

 Karl Marx

George Lukacs

Antonio Gramsci

Horkheimer and Adorno

Jurgen Habermas

Max Weber

Bryan Turner

 

“Prison Notebooks”

“The Dialectic of Enlightenment”

“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”

 

Newtonian paradigm

Positivism

Hypothesis testing

Cause-and-effect relationshipgs

“linguistic turn”

“cognitive revolution”

  

Sociology of culture

Cultural sociology

 

Culture as “cultivation”

Folk culture

Culture as learned behavior

Culture as a life-system

Culture as meaning

 

Historical materialism

Communist revolution

False consciousness

“Opium of the people”

 

Commodification

Commodity Fetishism

Class consciousness

 Hegemony

“Organic intellectuals”

Culture industry

  

“lowest common denominator”

Public sphere

Life-world

System-world

Communicative reason

Colonization of the life-world

 

Verstehen

Value-rationality

Purposive rationality

Salvation

Theodicy

Calvinism

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