Sociology 12 Exam Outline: June 2013 (3A)
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
Sociological Imagination
- Personal troubles
- Public issues
- Components (Historical and social 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?
Culture: A Shared Human Experience
- Define Anthropology
- Culture- definition
- material & non-material culture
- values, symbols, folkways (a norm), mores (a norm), laws (a norm)
- Maslow’s Hierarchies of Need
- 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 (, remember example of arranged vs. romantic marriage)
- 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, Merchants of Cool answers to questions)
- multiculturalism, mosaic, melting pot, 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
- Social institutions (you have a handout about this- know 5 tasks)
- Characteristics of personal and impersonal institutions
- 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