SOCIOLOGY B1
EXAM THREE STUDY GUIDE
Society
On Being Sane
Society vs. any other group
Institutionalized Definition of the Situation
Social Institution
Social Construction of Reality
The role of social context in the social
construction of reality.
Nature of Social Institutions (4 characteristics)
Distinction
Weber’s Life and Times (Major Institutions)
Capitalism
Four principles of the Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism
Not Just Bodies
Affective Neutrality
Gender and Chaperones
Deviance
Strategies (i.e. objectification, jokes, etc.)
Goffman’s Stigma
Importance of social constructs to navigate
unique and potentially embarrassing
interactions.
Sociobiology
Psychological Explanations for Deviance
Differential Association
Control Theory
Inner Controls
Outer Controls
Labeling Theory
Primary Deviance
Secondary Deviance
Normality of Crime
Collective Conscience and Crime/Deviance
The consequences should the deviance be
erased from our collective consciousness.
Situational Ethics…
Neutralizing Techniques Utilized by
Students
Retrospective Labeling
Projective Labeling
Saints and the Roughnecks
Trying to “Pass”
Social Context and Deviance
Neutralizing Techniques
Labeling
Durkheim and Deviance (3 basic insights)
Anomie
Merton and Anomie
Merton’s Strain Theory
Legitimate vs. Illegitimate Means for Deviance
Denying the Guilty Mind
Neutralizing White Collar Crime