Sociology Review General topics to study Social and cultural capital Difference between validity and reliability McDonaldization Material vs non material culture Ethnography Cross sectional and longitudinal studies Micro vs Macro level analysis Types of research ethnographic survey experimental field and secondary analysis Cultural industry Cultural leveling relativism lag and the relativist fallicy cultural imperialism Culture shock Reification The film digital nation o What happens to drone pilots o South Koreas response to internet addiction o What did MIT find out about students who multitask constantly actually worse at it Social structure Sociologists what they study found and their major terms o Emile Durkheim o Karl Marx o Max Weiber o August Comte o Harriet Marileau o C Wright Mills o Herbert Spencer o Mills and Jane Adams o W E B Debouis Durkheim s social facts and anomie What is sociology as a science Functionalists conflict symbolic interaction postmodern theories and feminist theories Netography Folkways morays and taboos Tempocentrism Conspicuous consumption The golden lotus example in class Charlie and Fido example in class Real and ideal culture Values beliefs norms and sanctions formal and informal Subcultures vs countercultures Latent manifest and dysfunctions Ethnocentrism Cultural imperialism Social Darwinism
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