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Introduction to Sociological Theory
Prof. Gabe Ignatow
Review Sheet for Exam 1
Friday February 21 in class
The 1st exam will cover the course readings on the syllabus through Karl Marx. Note that the Weber readings (Weber on Class, Stande, Conflict, and Rationalization  III-13,14,15) and Thorstein Veblen will not be on the first exam.
You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms. Note that this list is a guide only, and everything from the lectures and readings for this section of the course can be included on the exam.

Readings:
  • C. W. Mills VIII-37
  • Weber on Verstehen III-11
  • Durkheim’s Suicide II-8
  • Marx on false consciousness I-2
  • Simmel on urban life IV-16, 17
  • Durkheim and mechanical and organic solidarity II-6
  •  Marx on the proletariat, bourgeosie, and capitalists I-1,3,4,5

What is sociological theory?
What is a theory?
C. Wright Mills
“Culture and Politics”
“false consciousness”
Suicide and social integration

Karl Marx
“The German Ideology”
Max Weber
“‘Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy’”
Emile Durkheim
“Anomic Suicide”
Charles Darwin
Auguste Comte
Thomas Malthus
Herbert Spencer
Ferdinand Toennies
Georg Simmel
“Fashion” and “The Problem of Sociology”
Network analysis

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 Kapital”
Class conflict
Capitalists
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
“Base” and “superstructure”
Control of the “means of production”
Capitalism’s “internal contradictions”
False consciousness -> class consciousness
Revolutionary intellectuals
Alienation
De-skilling
Routinization
Boredom
Socialism

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