Sociology Final Exam Review Sheet

The five chapters you are responsible for are: Culture, Socialization, Deviant behavior, Social Stratification, Age, elderly and the concept of Death.

The exam will be 50 multiple choice questions. Below you will find a list of all the terms and theories that we went thru this year. For the final you should be able to define the terms and know an example in order to answer the questions properly. If there is a term that you do not remember or do not have in your notes please ask a classmate.

Culture:

1.  Culture

2.  Culture Shock

3.  Ethnocentrism

4.  Cultural Relativism

5.  Beliefs

6.  Symbols

7.  The 7 US Core values

8.  Idea Culture

9.  Real Culture

10.  High Culture

11.  Popular Culture

Socialization

1.  Nature vs. Nurture

2.  Looking Glass Theory

3.  Social Perception

4.  The I and the Me Theory

5.  The concept of the “self”

6.  Situated Self

7.  Adult Socialization Theory

8.  Moral Development theory

9.  The 6 Agents of Socialization

10.  Stages of Social Development

11.  Desocialization and resocialization

Deviant behavior:

1.  Norms

2.  Range of tolerance

3.  Mores

4.  Stigmas

5.  Theory of Suicide

6.  Means and Goals of society by Robert Merton

7.  Labeling theory

8.  Elite Deviance

9.  Techniques of Neutralization

10.  Social Bond Theory

11.  Differential Association

12.  Differential Reinforcement

13.  Deterrence Theory

14.  Difference of Crime and Deviance

15.  Role of the courts, corrections and police

Social Stratification

1.  Social classes

2.  Wealth

3.  Power

4.  prestige

5.  Upper Class

6.  Upper mIddle class

7.  Lower middle class

8.  Working class

9.  Lower class

10.  Absolute Poverty

11.  Relative poverty

12.  Life chances

13.  Social mobility

Age and the elderly

1.  Gerontology

2.  Signs of aging

3.  Mid life crisis

4.  The concept of acting your age

5.  Ageism

6.  Problems with retirement

7.  How do people make money in their elderly years

8.  Social isolation

9.  Elderly abuse

10.  Cryogenics