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Introduction to Sociological Theory
Review Sheet for Exam 2
The exam April 11 will cover the following readings and the lectures for these sections:
Weber III-13,14,15; Veblen V-24; Bourdieu XV-70; Horkheimer XIII-62;
Durkheim II-9,10
Note that we are skipping the reading by Max Weber (III-12)
To help your study, you should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms:
Pierre Bourdieu
Social Capital
Cultural Capital
Economic Capital
Habitus
Social Field
Symbolic Power

“Conspicuous consumption”
“Conspicuous leisure”
“Conspicuous waste”
Class, Status, Power
Rationalization
Means-ends reasoning
“purely technical superiority”
Charismatic authority
Traditional authority
Rational-legal authority
Problem of succession
Technocracy
Meritocracy
Career ladders
Exams
Technical ability

Instinct vs. Culture
Meaning
Blinking vs. Winking
Symbols
Languages
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Linguistic Relativism
Linguistic Determinism
Linguistic Categories

Beliefs
Values
Norms
Material Culture
High Culture
Low Culture
Popular Culture

Cultural Capital

Subcultures
Countercultures


Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism

Horkheimer and Adorno
The Culture Industry
The Dialectic of Enlightenment

The sacred
The profane
Collective effervescence
Rituals
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

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