SOC 101 Principles of Sociology: Midterm Study Guide This study guide is designed to alert you to the topics/issues that may appear on the midterm exam. You should use it to direct your studying. In other words‚ do not study from the guide‚ but from your in-class notes and reading notes‚ with the study guide as a roadmap. The midterm is on Thursday‚ October 11. All you need to bring is a pen or two. • • • • • History of sociological thought o August Comte – stages of human understanding
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organization of villages due to market economy Iron Law of Oligarchy Changes in social organization of villages due to market economy Humanizing the Corporate Culture Differential Association Theory Control theory Gender and Crime Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Cultural Universals Cultural Leveling Looking Glass Self www.pria.org online education to enhance career Register by Sep 20‚ 2013 Theories on
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Sociology 1st Test C. Wright Mills- Power. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society‚ and advocated public and political engagement over uninterested observation. Mills biographer Daniel Geary writes that his writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s. In fact‚ Mills popularized the term "New Left" in the U.S. in a 1960 open letter‚ Letter to the New Left. Social Darwinism- not any single well defined
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Sociology Chapter 2 Culture X. CULTURE – THE DEFINITION A. CULTURE – SOCIETY - A CHANGING WORLD 1. Importance of Culture 2. Culture – Material and Non-material 3. Cultural Universals $. Social Institutions (Adams) B. COMPONENTS OF CULTURE 1. Symbols – anything that can represent anything else 2. Language – symbols that successfully communicate ideas 3. Values 4. Norms C. TECHNOLOGY - CULTURAL CHANGE – DIVERSITY 1. Cultural Change – Technology and Cultural Lag 2. Cultural
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Essay B Me Talk Pretty One Day – Analysis Learning foreign languages is a challenge most people grab by the horn within their life. Struggling and battling the bull is discomforting at first due to ones own insecurity and self-confidence. For a start you will feel unhitched‚ but if you hook on you will often find success at some point. The reasons for a learning a new language are plentiful: one maybe wants to change his picture of the world‚ while another might want to seem more cultivated
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11 2.2 Pinker’s account of how the mind works: information processors ................................. 13 3. Steven Pinker’s theoretical argument against linguistic relativity ....................................... 15 4. Pinker’s exegesis of Whorf................................................................................................... 18 5. Objections to Pinker’s theoretical argument ........................................................................ 21 5.1. Objections to Pinker’s
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that are largely shaped by language. I found Boroditsky’s theories hard to refute as she backed them up with many hard facts. Boroditsky furthers her credibility through the acknowledgement of previous flaws within the theory‚ as seen in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which lacked any major empirical evidence. Boroditsky is able to show the importance of a language’s structure and the how it impacts the meanings and thoughts behind the words that are used. “Suppose I want to tell you that I saw Uncle
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* what is anthropology? * Anthropology uses a holistic perspective to understand human culture and what it means to be human * The working definition: the empirical comparative study of humans as biological and cultural beings‚ informed by the overarching principles of cultural relativism and by the avoidance of ethnocentrism * Four Traditional Fields of Anthropology * Physical anthropology * Also known as biological anthropology. Examines the biological and behavioral
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References: ٭ Basini‚ S. 2010. The basic perceptual process‚ DT503-1 Behavioural Science. Dublin Institute of Technology. ٭ Broadbent‚ D.E.‚ 1958 ٭ Caroll‚ J.B.‚ ed.‚ 1956. Language‚ thought and reality. Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ٭ Cooper‚ C.L.‚ Kirkcaldy‚ B.D‚ 1995 ٭ Heffner‚ C.L.‚ 2001. Introduction to Sensation and Perception [Internet] Available at: < http://allpsych.com/psychology101/index.html> [Accessed 1 April 2001]
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