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Sociology 12 Exam Outline: June 2013 (4AB) General terms/concepts Explain how social scientists can study an issue/event from a different focus: Sociology, anthropology and psychology Define Society and sociology Bias Understand the term bias Know the steps to detecting bias Know examples of how to detect bias in the news Sociological Imagination Personal troubles Public issues Components (Historical and social forces) Origins of Sociological Thinking Age or Reason/ Age of Enlightenment Development of Natural Sciences Less reliance on Religion for answers to questions about people and society Age of Revolution (French and American Revolutions- changes in government and power structures, new social class emerging) Industrialization (effect on society- social problems) Urbanization (effect on society- social problems) Macro-level sociology and micro-level sociology Sociologists: Know important sociologists and each of his/her contributions to the field of sociology Auguste Comte (sociology, positivism, social statics, social dynamics) Harriet Martineau (Translated Comte’s works, social research, sufferers, equality, social classes working together) Herbert Spencer (Evolution, Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest) Emile Durkheim (Functionalism, product of social environment, anomie, study of suicide) Karl Marx (conflict theory, economics, class conflict and change, bourgeoisie, proletariat, means of production, capitalists, alienation, revolution) Max Weber (Value-free sociology, Verstehen, ) C. Wright Mills (Sociological Imagination, personal troubles, public issues, social and historical forces) Sociological Perspectives: Understand the five main sociological perspectives (schools of thought). Know the theory and be able to apply it to an example as we did in class through our work with analogies and the specific examples given on the handouts. Functionalism Conflict Theory Symbolic Interactionism Feminism Post-Modernism Be sure to consider the connections we made to other units such as culture and socialization ex: a) What would a conflict theorist /functionalist/ Symbolic Interactionist/Feminist Post-Modernist say about the purpose of culture? b) What would a conflict theorist /functionalist/ Symbolic Interactionist/Feminist Post-Modernist say about school or family as agents of socialization? Research Methods Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research methods Distinguish between descriptive and explanatory studies Understand the steps to the scientific inquiry method Understand and be able to identify and explain research methods including: observation (structured, unstructured, natural, participant), experiment, case studies, survey (random, representative), interview, historical analysis/content analysis Be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of each type of research Explain the difference between a common cause and cause and effect Make reference to examples discussed in class/ text (Kitty Genovese, Milgram’s experiment on obedience, Queue Culture, Inside a Glasgow Gang etc.) Research Methods- define/ apply the following terms: Reactivity/ Hawthorne effect Validity Reliability Analysis Replication Control group Experimental group Variable Independent variable Dependent variable Random sample Representative sample Culture: A Shared Human Experience Define Anthropology Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Culture- definition material & non-material culture values, symbols, folkways (a norm), mores (a norm), laws (a norm) Cultural Universals (Murdock) ethnocentrism vs. cultural relativity (see definitions in binder, photocopied case study on the Fore) cultural diffusion & cultural lag(see definitions in binder, consider discussion of what happens when cultures change) culture shock ( remember example of Swiss woman living in a Masai village) cultural variation ( counterculture (remember example of the Hippies) subculture (remember example of Rodeo- note the features of a subculture) popular or pop culture & high culture (see handout for video assignment the Merchants of Cool, answers to questions) Ms. Hennessey’s Terms: Multiculturalism, Melting pot, Cultural mosaic , Cultural Pluralism, Dominant culture Socialization Agents of socialization (family, school, peers, media, government, religion, clubs/social groups, ethnic background, work) Ascribed and achieved roles Personality development theorists: Cooley, Mead, Freud Jung, Piaget Kohlberg Gilligan, Erikson Digital Divide Hidden curriculum Gender Socialization Anticipatory socialization Voluntary and involuntary re-socialization Social devaluation Total institution Feral and Isolated Children (Genie) nature, nurture, innate, learned Mass media, socialization and its impact- be ready to analyse an image! Videos… Killing us Softly, Tough Guise Social Organization Characteristics of personal and impersonal institutions Social institutions (you have a handout about this) Know the 5 tasks Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination terms ISMS” (classism, ageism, racism etc) Types of racism, overt, polite, subliminal, institutional, systemic In groups and Out groups Social groups, aggregates, categories Primary and secondary groups reference group Networks