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