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theory final exam review sheet

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 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

Social Constructionism
Berger and Luckmann
Sociology of knowledge
Recipe knowledge
Phenomenology
Human nature
World-openness
Species-specific environment
Plasticity
Habitualization
Institutionalization
Reifications
Universe-maintenance

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