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SOC 4000 Review Sheet Exam 1

The 1st mid-term exam will be held in class on February 19, and will cover the course readings on the syllabus through (i.e. including) Karl Marx.

 

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

 C. Wright Mills

Karl Marx

Max Weber

Emile Durkheim

Thorstein Veblen

Charles Darwin

Auguste Comte

Thomas Malthus

Herbert Spencer

Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore

Ferdinand Toennies

Georg Simmel

Thorstein Veblen

Pierre Bourdieu

 

What is sociological theory?

What is a theory?

“false consciousness”

Suicide and social integration

 

Functionalism

Conflict theory

Inequality

Cultural Theory

Values

Rituals

Socialization

 

Organic analogy

Theological stage

Metaphysical stage

Positivist stage

Natural selection

“survival of the fittest”

“Laws of Population Growth”

Meritocracy

 

Gemeinschaft (“Community”)

Gesellschaft (“Society”)

 

Mechanical solidarity

Organic solidarity

Anomie

Individualization

“The Metropolis and Mental Life”

Network analysis

“The Communist Manifesto”

“Das Capital”

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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