SOC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Control Variable, Culture Shock, Achieved Status
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Note: this is a list of what i consider to be the most important points from the readings. For the exam, you should also review your lecture notes, as those notes sometimes include additional information about the topics listed below. If you have a question about what in particular is important about these topics, please ask me during our review sessions. Schafer chapter 1: sociological imagination (definition, main characteristics, natural versus social science, difference between sociology and common sense, definition of sociological theory, auguste comte, harriet martineau, herbert spencer, emile durkheim, anomie, max weber, verstehen. Jane addams: robert merton, macrosociology versus microsociology, pierre bourdieu, cultural capital, social capital, functionalist perspective, manifest versus latent functions, dysfunction, conflict perspective (marxist, feminist) Interactionist perspective: nonverbal communication, erving goffman and dramaturgical approach, chart on page 17 (major sociological approaches, basic/pure sociology versus applied/clinical sociology.
