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4000 Introduction to Sociological Theory Midterm 2 Review Sheet

Introduction to Sociological Theory

Prof. Gabe Ignatow

 

Review Sheet for Mid-term Exam II. (March 26 in class)

 

The 2nd mid-term exam will cover the course readings and lectures from Bourdieu through cultural theory.

 

 

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

 


Social space

Power field

Economic capital

Social capital

Cultural capital

Symbolic capital

Class reproduction

“habitus”

“Class Dismissed”

 

Max Weber

“Railroad Switchman”

Theodicy

Salvation

Calvinism

Other-worldly religion

This-worldly religion

Accounting

Predestination

Rationalization

The calling

The Protestant Ethic

Work ethic

 

Emile Durkheim

The Elementary Forms…

Aborigines and Native Americans

The Sacred

The Profane

Rituals

Totems

“Collective Effervescence”

Social Solidarity

 

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