SOC 3701 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels, Unintended Consequences
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Preparatory sheet for the final exam (to be taken in class on december 14) The questions will be based on the following list of topics. Part a: self and society in sociological theory (introduction to part vi, pp. The connection between self and the social context. Did not view society as the result of a contract among autonomous individuals, nor see social order as driven entirely by relations of power. Humans are social creatures- society, therefore, is an innate part of human life: g. h. Mead"s relational theory of the mind. (the self pp. Involves specific identities (the meanings attached to the self by one"s self and others) The self is not primarily the physiological organism- is essential to it but we are at least able to think of a self without it: ghosts. A sense of self depends on ability to use self-referent terms, terms to describe the self.
