SOC 101 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Lectures 1 7 Lecture 1 September 2 Chapter 1 Important People C Wright Mills Emile Durkheim Auguste Comte What is Sociology sociological perspective personal biography and public history Durkheim Suicide Social Integration Goffman Jane Addams W E B DuBois Jane Adams Applied sociology Social Facts Origins of Sociology Industrial Revolution Political revolutions Imperialism Scientific Method Positivism Comte s Theory of Social Change Social imagination Types of solidarity Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer Lecture 2 September 4 Chapter 1 Important people Karl Marx Emile Durkheim Max Weber Robert Merton Talcott Parsons Conflict theory 4 types of alienation product alienation activity alienation species alienation social alienation Mechanical solidarity Organic solidarity Verstehen Symbolic interactionism Dramaturgy Functionalism aka structural functionalism or functional analysis Manifest functions latent functions social dysfunctions Split Horn Life of a Hmong Shaman in America Study questions 1 Where are the Hmong from 2 Who is the narrator 3 How does this film demonstrate the idea that people are shaped by the society or social context in which they live 4 How does this film demonstrate the concept of mechanical solidarity 5 Bonus What is the meaning of split horn We barely got to this part in the film don t worry about this Lecture 3 September 9 Chapter 5 Concepts o The Research Model 6 Types of Research Methods Surveys Participant observation Ethnography Secondary analysis Document analysis Experiments Unobtrusive observation Critiques of Functionalism Sapir hypothesis Operational definitions of variable Variables hypothesis validity reliability Correlation vs causation spurious cause effect and spurious correlations How to read a table text How to not do research text Population vs sample Representative sample Random sample stratified random sample snowball sample Importance of wording ordering survey questions Response bias Pager s experiment Mark of a Criminal Record class lecture text Ethical issues in sociological research What is unethical in sociological research Brajuha research text Tuskegee Syphilis Study Milgram s obedience to authority study Zimbardo s stimulated prison study Laud Humphrey s study of gay sex in public bathrooms Unethical Studies Tuskegee Syphilis Study 1932 1972 Milgram s Obedience to Authority Study 1963 Zimbardo s Simulated Prison Study Lecture 4 September 11 A Zimbardo s Simulated Prison Study a A unethical study that has young white college student boys be part of an experiment that became more and more of a reality There were prisoner and prisoner guard and the setting of being a prison came from being an experiment to being just like a real prison The experimenter himself was part of the experiment as a Prison Superintendent He let the parents of the prisoners come to visit like a real prison would All participants in the experiment went from acting their parts to being the parts they were assigned The participants have psychological affected Lecture 5 September 16 Chapter 2 What is culture BBC Trailer The Human Planet Language beliefs values norms behaviors and material objects Material culture vs Nonmaterial culture symbolic culture Ethnocentrism vs cultural relativism E g female genital cutting Different facets of symbolic culture gestures language values norms sanctions E g African American Vernacular English AAVE or Ebonics Cultural Variation in Gestures Sapir Whorf hypothesis Subcultures vs countercultures Chicago school vs Birmingham school approach to studying subcultures Cultural diffusion cultural lag cultural leveling values cluster contradictions clash Breaking Norms doing nothing Prescriptive vs proscriptive sanctions 3 types of norms folkways mores taboos subcultures vs countercultures Lecture 6 September 18 Film questions Devil s Playground 1 Are the Amish a counterculture 2 Do Amish values differ from mainstream American values If so how 3 What is rumspringa Lecture 7 September 23 Chapter 4 Macrosociology functionalism conflict theory vs microsociology symbolic interactionism Social structures and social institutions definitions what are the institutions Social Framework Social construction of reality text Goffman dramaturgy text Stereotypes text Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft Social locations Social facts Zimbardo Quiet Rage prisoners guards Edin Kefalas Promises I Can Keep why do poor teens have babies Chambliss saints roughnecks Functionalist vs Conflict theorists view on social institution Components of Social Structure Culture Social class Social status ascribed status achieved status master status Roles Groups Social institutions Roles A Role vs status B Status set vs role set C Role conflict vs role strain D Role exit Functionalists 1 2 3 4 5 Social institutions serve social needs functional requisites Replace members Socialize new members Produce distribute goods services Preserve order 6 Give sense of purpose to its members Lecture 8 September 2 From a functionalist perspective what are the social functions of this camp That is sociologically speaking what needs does this camp meet for the group s members You will recall the list of functional requisites that functionalists believe social institutions fulfill How would a conflict theorist view this camp Who has the power here and what are their goals Lecture 8