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theory exam 2 review sheet

 Introduction to Sociological Theory

Review Sheet for Exam 2

Thursday November 12  in class


You should be able to define and discuss all of the following terms. Note that this list is a guide only, and everything from the lectures and readings for this section of the course can be included on the exam.



Weber, Veblen, Bourdieu, DuBois and George Herbert Mead


Max Weber 

Class, Status, Power

Rationalization

Means-ends reasoning

purely technical superiority

Charismatic authority

Traditional authority

Rational-legal authority

Problem of succession

Technocracy

Meritocracy

Career ladders

Exams

Technical ability


Thorstein Veblen

Conspicuous consumption

Conspicuous leisure

Conspicuous waste


Pierre Bourdieu

Social Capital

Cultural Capital

Economic Capital

Habitus

Social Field

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






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