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theory final exam review sheet

The final exam is scheduled for 10:30am Tuesday December 11 in our classroom.

The final exam covers George Herbert Mead, C. W. Mills, Robert Merton, and Charlotte Perkins Gillman.

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

George Herbert Mead
Mind, Self and Society
Behaviorism
Perspective-taking
Social sources of the self
The other
The generalized other
The “I” and the “me”
“Play” and “game”

C. Wright Mills
The Sociological Imagination
The Power Elite
White Collar
Triangle of Power

Robert Merton
Manifest functions
Latent functions
Unintended consequences
Rain dance
Anti-gambling laws
Voluntary organizations
The Communist Party
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Role model
Middle-range theory

Charlotte Perkins Gillman
Gender Inequality
“Women and Economics” (1998)
Nuclear family
Gender socialization
Sex differences
Women’s economic independence from men
Public day care
Cooperative kitchens

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