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culture review sheet exam 2

Sociology of Culture
Prof. Gabe Ignatow Review Sheet for Exam 2 on Friday March 31

The second exam will cover the following course readings from the syllabus:

  • Ruth Benedict, The Concept of Culture
  • Clifford Geertz, Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
  • Richard Shweder, "On the Return of the 'Civilizing' Project"
  • Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Introduction and Chapter 1
  • Film: "Warriors of the Amazon"
  • Sulkunen, Pekka. Sociology Made Visible: On the Cultural Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
  • Pierre Bourdieu, Social Space and Symbolic Power
  • Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production (read through pg. 40) and The Market of Symbolic Goods
  • Sam Friedman, Habitus clivĂ© and the emotional imprint of social mobility

You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms (this list is not exhaustive):

cultural anthropology
synchronic analysis
diachronic analysis
culture-and-personality
“personality writ large”
“modal personality”
“man is an animal suspended in webs of significance”
ethnography
“thick description”
“the return of the ‘civilizing’ project”
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The sacred
The profane
Ritual
Totems
Collective effervescence
The yanomami

Social Capital
Cultural Capital
Economic Capita
Habitus
Social Field/Power Field/Social Space
Symbolic Power
Symbolic Violence

Habitus Clivé
Social mobility
Speed of mobility
Distance of mobility
Resentment and ridicule
Hysteresis effect

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