SOCIOLOGY

The final exam is scheduled for 10:30am Wednesday May 5 in our classroom. The final exam covers the history of American sociology, W.E.B. DuBois, George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons,  Robert Merton, C. Wright Mills, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Social Constructionism You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms: W.E.B. DuBois Fisk University “color line” Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute “double-consciousness” “the veil” “the talented tenth” “colortocracy” The Philadelphia Negro (1899) The University of Pennsylvania The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Marcus Garvey 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” Talcott Parson Dynamic equilibrium Social system Value system Personality system C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination The Power Elite White Collar Triangle of Power Robert Me...

Sociology of Culture Prof. Gabe Ignatow Review sheet for final exam at 8am Saturday May 4 in our classroom The final exam will cover the following course readings on the syllabus: Lamont et al. "Cultural and Moral Boundaries in the United States" Richard Peterson and Roger Kern, "Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore" (bottom of page) Bethany Bryson, Anything But Heavy Metal Sam Friedman, Cultural Omnivores or Culturally Homeless? Peterson and Anand, The Production of Culture Perspective Richard Peterson, Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music (get from JSTOR) Wendy Griswold, American Character and the American Novel You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms (this list is not exhaustive): Highbrows Snobs Omnivores Musical dislikes High-status exclusiveness Educated tolerance Symbolic racism Patterned tolerance Multicultural capital tolerance line dominant classes ...