study guide for lecture on race, summer 07

Study guide for lecture on race

Know something about:

early racial classification schemes
how many Hispanics understand race
race as a biological construct
race as a social construct

How has the category of white transformed throughout the history of the United States?
How has the category of black transformed throughout the history of the United States?

study guide for lecture on consumption, summer 07

Study guide for lecture on consumption:

Know about:

American consumer society
culture of consumption
downside to consumption
William Thompson, the financial trap
Karl Marx
Jean Baudrillard
Max Weber
George Ritzer
Thorstein Veblen
Colin Campbell

Midterm 4 study guide for Giddens lecture on the family

Midterm 4 study guide for Giddens lecture on the family.

Part 1.

Discuss the key changes affecting the family.

Part 2.

Discuss the democratic family.

midterm 3 study guide for lecture notes

Study guide for lecture notes

I. social interaction

Know about:

social structure
social position
social role
Erving Goffman
dramaturgy
the importance of style
the cynical and sincere
Arlie Hochschild
emotion labor
surface acting
deep acting

II. conformity

Solomon Asch
the various kinds of sanctions using examples from “Police Accounts of Normal Force.”
Authority
Stanley Milgram
The social conditions that help to explain the My Lai massacre .

Study guide for lecture notes on culture.

Study guide for lecture notes on culture.

Given cultural variation with respect to attitudes toward sexuality and sexual desire, what can we say about the socially constructed nature of sexuality in our society?

Discuss how culture can be seen as ideology. Use culture-specific beliefs about sexual desire as examples.

What is the difference between real and ideal culture? Why should we not conflate the two?

How do the various elements of culture (material goods, values, beliefs, and norms) influence the ways in which people live?

How might an ethnocentric perspective bias our sense of what is reasonable, appropriate, or morally right? Give examples.

Discuss Ann Swidler’s concept of culture as a “tool kit.” Use the two versions of love as an example.