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theory exam 1 review sheet

Introduction to Sociological Theory
Review Sheet for Exam 1
Thursday October 4 in class
The 1st exam will cover the course readings on the syllabus through Thorstein Veblen on the leisure class.
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
Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Malthus, and Davis and Moore (lecture only)
Toennies on Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (lecture only)
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
Film: "Masters of Money"
Weber on Class, Stande, Conflict, and Rationalization III-13,14,15

Thorstein Veblen on the leisure class V-24

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

Individualization
“The Metropolis and Mental Life”
Network analysis

Mechanical solidarity
Organic solidarity
Anomie

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 à class consciousness
Revolutionary intellectuals
Alienation
De-skilling
Routinization
Boredom
Socialism

“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

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