Exam 3 Study Guide Material from earlier in the semester Throughout the semester beginning in Ch 1 have a general understanding of Conflict theory Functionalism Functionalist theory Symbolic interactionism Ch 5 Reliability the quality of consistency in measurement The process must yield the same results if repeated time after time Validity the measurements are consistent with what was intended to be measured Material from the last section of the semester Disability Studies From lecture by Prof Rembis Disability Rights Movement o Early history vs modern Disability Rights Movement The Social Model of Disability o Disability vs impairment see also Goodley reading o The social model vs the medical model of disability Simi Linton quote If I want to go to vote or use the library and these places are inaccessible do I need a doctor or a lawyer o The social model and legal changes Disability Studies as an academic discipline o Disciplinary influences on Disability Studies o Why is Disability Studies important Disability Studies Readings 2 different views of disability as exemplified by the quotes about mutant from X Men The Last Stand Ilea o Medical model of disability vs social model Ilea also see lecture o Different responses to disability fixing disability curing giving freedom from disability vs fixing society using cures as weapons genocide Ilea Definitions of disability from pathology to politics Goodley o Moral position sin o Medical view pathology o Disability as socially constructed what Prof Rembis calls the social model disablism Temporarily able bodied TAB Goodley Disability and inequality i e inequalities for those who are disabled in terms of income education legal protections etc Goodley Disabled People s Movement Goodley also see Disability Rights Movement in lecture Disability Studies perspectives Goodley o The social model o The minority model Ch 21 Collective behavior and social movements lecture and text Collective behavior lecture text o Why do people engage in it o Early theorists Mackay herd mentality etc Lebon collective mind etc Park circular reaction etc Blumer acting crowds how does an acting crowd develop E g murder of Sam Pettie o Contemporary theories Minimax strategy Berk text Turner and Killian emergent norms 5 types of participants o Why don t people engage in it Free rider problem Prisoner s Dilemma Collective action problem in the provision of public goods e g privately funded education o Forms of collective behavior lecture text Riots rumors panics mass hysteria moral panics fads fashions text Social movement lecture text o definition o examples o 3 main elements Tilly o types proactive vs reactive what their target is what kind of change they seek alterative etc o social movement tactics lecture text o Weather Underground o Social movements and the media o Theories about why people join social movements mass society lecture deprivation relative deprivation lecture text declining privilege theory text ideological commitment lecture text o stages of social movement text o pro choice pro life text Film Berkeley in the Sixties Ch 22 Social Change and the Environment lecture and text What is social change 4 main social revolutions Gemeinschaft vs gesellschaft Industrial Revolution o Marx o Weber Conflict power global politics o G7 Plus threats to their power Theories and processes of social change o Evolutionary theories Unilinear Multilinear o Cyclical Marx s dialectical process of history thesis antitheses synthesis Technology and social change o Ogburn 3 processes by which technology changes society critiques of Ogburn s theory Cultural lag o What is technology and its significance in social change Changes in social organization ideology etc Environment Environmental problems o Environmental injustice o Toxic waste Superfund sites o Ecosabotage or what the person in the video calls ecoterrorism o Environmental Movement o Environmental Sociology Exam questions may draw on all films all short videos all examples used in class lecture even if not explicitly cited above all lectures and all chapters assigned for this portion of the class