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Review Sheet for Culture Exam 1


Sociology of Culture
Exam 1 Review Sheet
Friday February 8, 2019
The first exam will count for 25% of your final grade, and will cover the following readings:
William Sewell jr., The Concept(s) of Culture
Critical Theory, from Standord Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry
Max Weber, “The Social Psycholgy of the World Religions”
Samuel Huntington, “Cultures Count”
You should be able to define and discuss the following people and ideas:



Karl Marx
George Lukacs
Antonio Gramsci
Horkheimer and Adorno
Max Weber
Bryan Turner
“Prison Notebooks”
“The Dialectic of Enlightenment”
“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”
Culture as “cultivation”
civilization and barbarism
folk culture
culture as learned behavior
historical materialism
Communist revolution
false consciousness
“Opium of the people”
other-wordliness
Commodification
Commodity Fetishism
Hegemony
Organic intellectuals
Culture industry
lowest common denominator
Value-rationality
Purposive rationality
Salvation
Theodicy
Calvinism
Individualism
Equality
Trust
Social capital
Optimism/pessimism
Civility

Time orientation

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