SOCIOLOGY B1
EXAM TWO STUDY GUIDE
Culture
Material Culture
Nonmaterial Culture
Culturally Standardized Unreason
Culture as a Product of Action
Culture as a Conditioning Element of Further
Action
Symbols
Language
Norms
Folkways
Mores
Taboos
Values
Formal & Informal Sanctions
Negative & Positive Sanctions
Culture Shock
Cultural Lag
Culture Diffusion
Cultural Leveling
Subculture
Counterculture
Idioculture
Socialization
Nature vs. Nurture
The Social Self
The Looking-Glass Self (Three principle
elements)
The “I” and the “Me”
Play
Games
Generalized Other
Freud and Personality
The Role of Emotions in Socialization
Family as Socializing Agent
School as Socializing Agent
Peer Group as Socializing Agent
The Workplace as a Socializing Agent
Resocialization
Total Institution
Social Structure
Status
Ascribed & Achieved Statuses
Master Status
Status Symbols
Roles
Role Strain
Status Inconsistency
Role Conflict
Role Exit
Primary & Secondary Groups
Group Leadership
Group Size (Dyad vs. Triad)
Reference Groups
In- and Out- Groups
Six elements of Ideal-Type Bureaucracies
Bureaucracy applied to McDonalds
Goal Displacement
Ritualism
Trained Incompetence
Culture
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Queer Customs
Act Your Age
Age Clicks
Anticipatory Socialization
Sequencing and Discrepancy
Reconciling Age
Socialization
Anybody’s Son Will Do
Social Structure
The Pathology of Imprisonment
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Restroom and Equal Opportunity