(Possible) Questions from lecture notes



Student-Driven Test Questions

Charles Lemert’s Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories

Preface & Chapter One

1. Why are certain aspects of a group’s culture systematically excluded from conscious and public discussion? –Brady Williams

2. What does Norbert Elias say about civilization? (Answer: Civilization is always an ongoing process; it is never a “done-thing.” Civilizations are in the modern sense, always unfinished, constantly in motion, ever changing. There is no end-point to civilization.) –Justine Clark & Ashley Braun

3. Social theories are among the ways modern culture tries to think about the unthinkable? What are unthinkable ideas, and why do we need social theories to address the unthinkable? –Justine Clark

4. When Charles Lemert was in college in the 1950s, his roommate beat him about the head while muttering to himself. How was Lemert’s experience with his roommate an experience that led him to “thinking the unthinkable?” –Marcus Mann

5. What are the underlying reasons for festivals like Mardi Gras? -Joe Schultz

6. Liminality represents one of the social means by which unreasonable, abnormal activities satisfy a certain need. What need or function does the liminal experience satisfy in society? –Rebecka Roy

7. What is the problem with social theories (Answer: they often overreach their limits.) -Keith Goodin [Follow-up question: How do social theories overreach their limits?]

8. What makes people go crazy and “let loose” at festivals such as Mardi Gras? -Nathan Funk

9. What are “unthinkables”? Give examples of “unthinkable” ideas in American society. -Mikayla Williams and Sharon Ranjitkas

10. How does Lemert explain human indulgence in organized craziness? –Rachel Branson

11. What is liminality, and why is it used? –Rachel Branson

12. What does Lemert consider the distinctive and defining attribute of modern social and political order? –Michael KaKayGaesick

13. Why is it necessary for societies to have liminal experiences available to individuals? Why must societies have periods of “letting go” or “craziness”? What are some examples of liminal experiences in American culture? –Marcus Mann & Sari Lautt

14. What are “social things” according to Emile Durkheim? –Laurel Wallert

16. Give an example of stigma and explain how it affects individuals? – Katyana Eleson

17. Why are coming of age rituals so important? –Kat Goers

Chapters 2 & 3

1. Why, according Marx, “the more wealth, the more poverty?” –Kayla Colvin

2. How is violence the bead lust of modernity? –Kayla Colvin [“Violence is the unavoidable consequence of modern progress. It’s always just below the surface of social things. It’s global and can break into the open at any moment.”] And related: According to Lemert, which century was the most violent and why? – Sara Lautt

3. What is a ‘commodity’, and what makes it economically valuable? – Tiffany Irving [Something that has value at anytime and can be exchanged for a price by someone who might need it or desire it. As such, a commodity is something that can also lose its value.]

4. According to Marx, what determines the value of a commodity in the capitalist system? -Tiffany Kline [The value of a commodity was not determined by the price a buyer is willing to pay for it; rather it is valued according to the human labor expended in its production.]

5. Marx says in his riddle that, “The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size.” How does this insight compare to his views on product alienation? –Alyssa Morken

6. What is the difference between an idea and a theory? [“Ideas are born as spontaneous thoughts conceived in a close-at-hand experience, while theories are brought up over up overtime and at a distance from experience.”] –Ashley Braun and Amanda Kenner

7. What is “use-value”? –Shaun Meyer

8. Why does Karl Marx believe that with an increase in industrialization comes an increase in poverty? –Brady Williams

9. What do social theories and ice cream have in common? –Adam Olson [“Always increasing in number and kind”]

10. What is alienation or estrangement for workers? –Sulav Sigdel

11. Differentiate between Foucault’s and Marx’s riddles of modernity? –Sulav Sigdel & Sara Lautt

12. Briefly explain Foucault’s model of discipline and punishment. –Pratigya Devkota

13. Why did the bourgeoisie class think the new industrial world was better than the previous one? –Mikayla Williams

Chapter 4

1. List and explain the five (5) riddles of modernity. –Keith Goodin

2. Karl Marx describes a disturbing riddle that plagues the newly urbanized poor. What was it, and how did it affect them? –Rachel Thompson & Kurt Schoening

3. How did Marx and Foucault differ on their explanations of violence in their different centuries? –Rachel Thompson

Chapter 5

1. Why has the modern revolution not led to a better life for the masses, according to Karl Marx? –Kayla Colvin & Amanda Kenner

2. According to Karl Marx, what is the one constant throughout all societies? –Chelsea Fuller

3. What are social structures, and why are they naked to the eye? –Emilie Dalbec & Laurel Wallert

4. Why is modernity so fought with riddles? –Justin Clark

Chapter 6

1. What is Weber’s “spirit of capitalism”? –Rachel Branson

2. What did Weber say was the evil of the modern world (as it relates to work)? –Chelsea Fuller

3. What did modernity mean to Weber? –Amanda Kenner

4. What are the three (3) pure types of authority for Weber? –Janis Flug & -Katyana Eleson

5. What did the double-bind keep man from escaping, according to Weber? –Tiffany Kline

6. Why is Karl Marx considered a materialist and Max Weber an idealist, and how does this relate to their opposing views on culture? –Jordan Bruhn

7. How are the ways of the Puritan similar to the ways of the capitalist/entrepreneur? –Rachel Thompson & Danielle Jones

8. What is asceticism, and how does it relate to the Protestant Ethic?

9. Weber kept politics and science separate, but he seemed to have a similar opinion about the both of them. What was that opinion? –Danielle Jones

10. What did Weber think distinguished the modern individual from others (in terms of work)? –Danielle Jones

Questions From Mapping the Social Landscape

C. Wright Mills’ The Promise

1. What is the “Sociological Imagination?” –Sulav Sigdel [Answer: “[The Sociological Imagination] is a quality of mind that will help [individuals] to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves.” Pg. 3]

2. What does Mills mean when he states, “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both [troubles and issues]”? - Danielle Jones

3. Why does Mills assert that “The sociological imagination is the most fruitful form of self-consciousness”? –Jordan Braun

4. “The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise.” (pg. 3) How does this help men to deal with their personal struggles and the global changes around them? – Rachel Thompson

5. Give some examples of structural changes that may lead to personal troubles. –Juston Welten

6. What are the three (3) consistently asked questions by those who have been imaginatively aware of the promise of their work? –Sulav Sigdel [Follow-up Question: What exactly is the Promise that Mills speaks about so glowingly?]

7. C. Wright Mills noted that what we experience in various and specific milieux is often caused by _____________. (see page 7) –ReBecka Roy

8. What does the sociological imagination do? –Cody Severson

9. What is the difference between troubles and issues? Give an example of each. –Tiff Irving

Edin & Kefalas’ Promises I can Keep

1. According to Promises I Can Keep, how do middle-class women and low-income women view marriage and raising children? –Danielle Jones

2. What does Edin & Kefalas mean when they say, “A young mother often fears marriage will mean a loss of control”? –Tiffany Kline

3. What reasons do low-income women give for early pregnancy? –Katyana Eleson Answer: “While the poor women we interviewed saw marriage as a luxury, something they aspired to but feared they might never achieve, they judged children to be a necessity, and absolutely essential part of a young woman’s life, the chief source of her identity and meaning… in the social worlds inhabited by these women…[a baby] represents and opportunity to prove one’s worth. The real tragedy, these women insist, is a woman who’s missed her chance to have children.” (pg. 11)

4. What reasons do low-income women give for delayed marriage? –Katyana Eleson Answer: “A young mother often fears marriage will mean a loss of control –she believes that saying “I do” will suddenly transform her man into an authoritarian head of the house who insists on making all decisions, who thinks he “owns” her. Having her own earnings and assets buys her some “say-so” power and some freedom from her man’s attempts to control her behavior…” (pg. 13)

5. If the poor hold marriage to such a high standard, why don’t they do the same for childbearing? –Brady Williams

6. Why do some poor young mothers seldom view an out-of-wedlock birth as a mark of personal failure? –Ashley Braun

7. How do most single mothers justify having children in their teens, and why do these single mothers seldom marry? –Paul Ptiner

8. If the poor hold marriage to such a high standard, then why don’t they do the same for childbearing? –Ross Monson

9. What has led researchers to believe that marriage has lost its meaning in low income communities? –ReBacka Roy

10. Marriage among these women is desirable, yet almost all evidence

shows that the women see it as unobtainable. Why? – Shaun Meyers

11. What are some reasons Edin and Kefalas believe that non-marital

childbearing has continued to increase? –Mikayla Williams

Velliquette & Murray, The New Tattoo Subculture

1. Why do humans alter their natural appearance, and why do they feel the need to further differentiate themselves by tattooing? –Chesea Haugen & Shawn Meyers

2. What are some of the ways tattoo artists legitimize their work? –Kayla Colvin

George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of America

1. “McDonaldization” has done much to help society to become more efficient, but how has it hindered it? –Rachel Branson

2. What is the “irrationality of rationality”, and how will McDonaldization affect our future? –Alyssa Morken

3. What are the four (4) dimensions of McDonaldization? –Tiff Irving

4. What some advantages of McDonaldization? –Chelsea Haugen & Rachel Holden

D. Stanley Eitzen, The Atrophy of Social Life

1. What are some implications of the increasing social isolation for society? –Chelsea Haugen & Brady Williams

2. How have mega-houses contributed to the architecture of isolation? –Tiffany Kline

3. Give three (3) examples of why today’s society is at risk for social atrophy. –Kayla Colvin

4. How are we able to isolate ourselves so easily in these modern times? –Kat Goers & Paul Pitner

5. What does Jeffrey Kagan mean when he says we prefer to chat with a raceless, nameless stream of words, and how does this relate to Locke’s belief that “we are becoming an autistic society?” –Rachel Thompson

6. How, according to Eitzen, did the invention of the refrigerator change society’s interaction patterns? –Danielle Jones & Lindsay Majerus

Dyer, Anybody’s Son Will Do

1. Why is it important to create and maintain the illusion that basic training is an extraordinary challenge? –Katyana Eleson

2. Why does the military try to recruit people before they are 20 years old, and why are older candidates not as desirable as younger ones? –Jackie Urai & Alex Olson

3. What are the two functions of drills (marching in formation) in the military? –Kayla Colvin

4. What is the first stage in the conversion process of a marine? –Kayla Colvin & Chelsea Fuller

5. What is re-socialization, and why does the military intentionally break down new recruits’ pride and self-esteem? –Chelsea Haugen & Rachel Thompson

6. What is the function of basic training in the Marines? –Justin Clark

Lewis, Learning to Strip

1. List and explicate the two types of exotic dancers? –Jackie Urai & Kayla Colvin

2. What three (3) techniques of neutralization do exotic dancers primarily rely on? –Kayla Colvin

3. Why do strippers think they need to justify their job and how exactly do they do this? –Melody Mische

4. How does exotic dancing affect the lives of the dancers outside of the club? –Rachel Branson

5. What is anticipatory socialization, and what benefits does it offer to exotic dancers? –Chelsea Fuller

6. What is the difference between a career-oriented dancer and a goal-oriented one? –Emilie Dalbec & Chanda Torske

7. What four (4) factors influence entry into exotic dancing? –Jordan Bruhn & Tiff Irving

8. Why do exotic dancers have a hard time with developing successful heterosexual relationships [and why do some dancers see lesbian relationships as a viable choice]? –Caroline Haugen

9. According to McCaghy and Skipper, what are three (3) conditions associated with the occupation? –Tiff Irving

Boswell & Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture

1. What common double standards exist for men and women regarding sexual relations? –Rachel Branson & Jackie Murnion

2. How do men and women define the “hook-up” differently? –Kayla Colvin & Sara Lautt

3. Give two examples of how (some) fraternities publicly demeaned sexually active women. –Kayla Colvin

4. Rape is considered a deviant behavior. How do some fraternity brothers justify their deviance? –Jackie Murnion

5. What are some key factors that can lead to rape in a fraternity/sorority? –Chelsea Haugen

6. What is “chatter”, and what role does this ritual play? –Chelsea Fuller

7. What are some attitudes and pressures that develop in high-risk fraternity houses, and how does peer pressure strengthen rape culture? –Jackie Murnion &Mikayla Williams

8. What is the real meaning of rape, and how do fraternity brothers view consent? –Janis Flug [Follow-up: Can an intoxicated or drunk woman give consent?]

9. How is deviance determined? Is it based on what people do or by how others judge what people do? –Sarah Manock

10. How do men and women differ in their views on date rape? –Melodie Mische

11. Who are the “faceless victims” of fraternity rape culture? –Emilie Dalbec & Keith Gillis

12. A woman who sleeps around is called a slut. A man who sleeps around is called a stud. Why is this the case, and what sociological idea does it illustrate? –Rachel Thompson

13. What are the differences between low-risk and high-risk fraternity parties? –Lindsay Majerus & Kat Goers & Shawn Meyers

14. According to conflict theory, who defines deviance? –Tiffany Irving

15. What is the “walk of shame”? –Sarah Stoterau

Williams, Shopping as Symbolic Interaction

1. According to Erving Goffman, face-to-face public encounters with strangers typically rely on what? –Kayla Colvin

2. How do corporate and shop floor cultures differ? –Jackie Murnion

3. What does a “tucked in shirt” signify? –Tiffany Kline

4. Why do secondary relationships tend to be temporary? –Mikayla Williams

5. What are “the ropes”? How does one learn “the ropes”? What are some lessons learned? [Follow-up: Why did white women customers have a sense of entitlement?]–Sarah Stoterau

6. How did “Toy Warehouse” and “Diamond Toys” present themselves to the customer, and why did they feel they needed to create such themes? –Danielle Jones

Lecture Notes Questions

1. What are the three (3) types of power/authority according to Max Weber, and what does he believe to be the most efficient type of power, the one the works best for industrial modernity? –Chelsea Haugen, Keith Gillis, & Rebecka Roy

2. Why, according to Durkheim, were Catholics less likely to commit suicide than Protestants? And why were Jews less likely to commit suicide than both Catholics and Protestants? –Tiffany Kline

3. How does Ferdinand Tonnies distinguish between Gemeinschaften and Gesellschaften societies? – Jordan Bruhn

4. What does Karl Marx see as the “engine” of social change, and why? – Janis Flug & Ashley Braun

5. How does Max Weber define power? –Kristin Novotny

6. Give an example of each of the four types of suicide, and explain how integration or regulation may have played a part. –Danielle Jones

7. What is the “rationalization of society” according the Max Weber? –Nathan Funk

8. What are the five (5) types of social interactions, and where would you situate the love relationship? –Chelsea Haugen & Michael KakayGeesick

9. What are the six (6) agents of socialization, and which is the preeminent source for pre-adolescent children? Which becomes the preeminent source for teenagers? –Danielle Jones

10. What is resocialization? Give examples of institutions that are designed to resocialize individuals. –Paul Pitner

11. What is deviance, and what does labeling theory have to say about its development? –Cody Severson

12. What is the norm of reciprocity in exchange theory? Also, what is the principle of least interest, and who, according to this theory, has the most power in romantic relationships? –Caroline Hougen

Questions for Exam # 2

Charles Lemert’s Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Social Theories

Chapter 9 (Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “Herland”)

1. What is essentialism, and how is it not always true? –Kayla Colvin

2. What is an Androcentric world according to C.P. Gilman? –Kayla Colvin & Rachel Branson

3. What does “standpoint feminism” maintain, and what does this thinking lead to? –Tiffany Kline

4. For Gilman, where was the difference in gender found? –Chelsea Fuller

5. According to Hochschild, what is the “Second Shift” of domestic work? –Tiff Irving

6. Even though Gilman discussed women and how they suffered in the workforce, what group did she overlook? What was the problem with this? – Rachel Thompson

7. Why does extreme feminism –the idea that women’s differences make them superior to men- draw a critical response? –Marcus Mann

8. What did the dirty, ripped, putrid, yellow wallpaper in Gilman’s short story symbolize? –Danielle Jones

Chapter 10 (W.E.B. Dubois’ “Double-Conscious Race-Man”)

1. What is “double-consciousness,” and what does it mean to Black Americans? –Kayla Colvin & Rob Wright

2. What is a “race-man?” –Kayla Colvin & Jordan Bruhn

3. What was DuBois “Talented Tenth” principle, and what did it emphasize? –Tiff Irving

4. Who was Booker T. Washington, and what was his famous “Atlanta Compromise”? How did his views on race relations differ from DuBois’. –Dr. Vigilant

Chapter 11 (Anna Julia Cooper’s “Office”)

1. What was Cooper’s expression for the moral and political position of Southern Black Women? –Kayla Colvin

2. What was Cooper’s main idea about the social condition of black women? –Ashley Braun

3. Cooper’s social theory placed her as the “odd woman out” of classic sociological theory. Why did her theory place her there? –Tiffany Kline

4. What was the defining characteristic –difficulty- of the colored woman’s standpoint? – Chelsea Fuller

Chapter 12 (Georg Simmel’s Stranger)

1. According to Lemert, what is one of the most striking and troubling features of the new modern world of economic change? –Kayla Colvin & Chelsea Fuller

2. Who is the “stranger,” and how did Simmel create this category? –Chelsea Haugen

3. What is “global migration,” and what is its primary cause? –Sarah Manock

4. What is mobility, and how does it relate to the modern world? –Lindsay Majeus

5. Why is the “Stranger” also called a potential wonderer? –Tiff Irving

6. How did Simmel compare people in modernity to strangers? –Danielle Jones

Ferguson’s Mapping the Social Landscape

Ehrenreich’s Nickeled and Dimed

1. What are some advantages the author had that reduced the validity of her experiment? –Kayla Colvin

2. What one redeeming feature of low wage work did the author find? –Kayla Colvin & Kat Goers

3. According to Ehrenreich, is it possible to make a living on the kinds of jobs available to unskilled people? Explain –Lindsay Majerus & Rachel Thompson

Domhoff’s Who Rules America

1. What is the function of the Debutante party for members of the upper class? –Tara Nelson

2. Why is volunteering so important to upper class women? –Kayla Colvin

3. What are the four different types of empirical studies that established the existence of an interrelated set of social institutions, organizations, and social activities? –Chelsea Haugen

4. Why do Americans dislike the idea of social classes? –Tiffany Kline & Laurel Wallert

5. What are some of the key features of upper class schooling, and how does it affect students? –Kat Goers

6. What country did the boarding school adopt its methods from, and why? –Kat Goers

7. What do social clubs unconsciously do? –Kat Goers

8. Why were marriages outside of the upper class highly discouraged? –Kat Goers

9. How do schools play an important role in transmitting the class structure to their students? –Rachel Branson

10. Why are boarding schools an effective socializing agent? –Lindsay Majerus

11. How do upper class women view their work as volunteers? –Katyana Eleson

12. Ervin Goffman says boarding schools are “total institutions” that are highly effective socializing agents. What are “total institutions,” and what do they do to their member (a.k.a., students in this case)? –Rachel Thompson

Kim’s Out of Sorts

1. What are the two most commonly cited shifts in socio-cultural norms that have influenced adoption in the U.S.? –Kayla Colvin

2. Why is it easier to adopt a “non-white baby” than a “white” baby? –Kat Goers

3. By the end of the 1970’s, it became very hard to adopt a healthy white infant, name three factors that caused this change? –Lindsay Majerus

4. What strategies serve as contemporary “racial etiquette,” and how are these strategies used? –Katyana Eleson

5. Why is there such a desire for white children when looking to adopt? –ReBecka Roy

6. Why were children from Korea considered “desirable?” –Tiff Irving & Melodie Mische

7. What socio-historical forces are acting on parents who want to adopt only white or Asian children? –Sarah Manock

8. What does adopting white children “Hide?” –Emilie Dalbec

Bonilla-Silva’s New Racism

1. Historically, what three (3) strategies were used to keep Blacks and other racial/ethnic minorities separated from whites? –Tara Nelson

2. List the four central frames of color-blind racism, and provide an explication for two (2) of these frames. –Kayla Colvin & Chelsea Haugen

3. List and explain the five (5) central features of the new racism? –Kat Goers

4. What are the three (3) races in the new tri-racial system of the United States (and where would Tiger Woods fit into this system)? –Adam Olson

5. What are the reasons for “racial matching” when adopting children? –Rachel Branson

Lucal’s What is Means to be Gendered Me

1. What are the markers of femininity in American society? –Tara Nelson & Kat Goers

2. What are “gender blenders,” how do “gender blenders” feel about being women? –Chelsea Haugen & Kayla Colvin

3. What is the “two and only two” rule? –Tiffany Kline

4. Define and give examples of “gender display”? –Rachel Branson

5. What does it mean to be “gendered me”? –Justin Clark & Aaron Wegscheid

6. What techniques did the author develop to deal with gender misattribution? –Katyana Eleson

Lesko’s Our Guys/Good Guys

1. Who does Lesko define as the “good guys” of American high school culture? –Tara Nelson

2. What is the “pain principle,” and what does it have to do with masculine socialization into athletics? –Kayla Colvin

3. How does the “pain principle” help to define men? –Tiffany Kline

4. What does the author compare the aggressiveness of football to? –Kat Goers

5. How do violent sports affect male dominance? –Lindsay Majerus

6. Why do male athletes view their bodies as instruments? –Tiff Irving

Cherlin’s The De-Institutionalization of American Marriage

1. What is a family of choice, and how does it relate to the “pure relationship?” –Jordan Bruhn & Cody Severson

2. What is de-institutionalization, and how has it affected the American marriage? –Mikayla Williams

3. What developments altered the meaning of marriage? –Chelsea Fuller

4. What does the author mean when he says, “Remarriage has not become more like first marriage; rather, first marriage has become more like remarriage”? –Rachel Thompson

5. What is the most recent development in the de-institutionalization of marriage? –Adam Olson

6. Is the de-institutionalization of marriage necessarily a negative thing? Explain. –Danielle Jones

Crittenden’s The Mommy Tax

1. What exactly is the “mommy tax”? –Justin Clark

2. Who are the most disadvantaged people in the workplace, and why? –Chelsea Haugen

3. Who are the women that are equal to men in the workplace? –Lindsay Majerus

4. Why are “unencumbered” workers the most ideal workers for most companies? –Kelsey Qualley & Ashley Braun

5. When it comes to women’s equality, what part is still left out to this day? –Kelsey Qualley

6. What factors make motherhood in Europe more favorable than in the United States? –Kelsey Qualley & Kayla Colvin

7. What does the “be a man” strategy mean? –Mikayla Williams

8. What is the ultimate price of the mommy tax? –Cody Severson

9. What is the “warrior wage gap”? –Tiffany Kline

10. How can we lower the mommy tax in our society? –Sarah Manock

11. According the Bible (the book of Leviticus), what was ratio of earning for men to women? –Emilie Dalbe

Dr. Vigilant’s Lecture Notes

1. What is social stratification? –Cody Severson

2. What is the main difference between a caste system and a class system? –Dr. Vigilant

3. What is socioeconomic status, and what factors are considered in its calculation? –Tiff Irving

4. What is the Davis-Moore Thesis on social stratification, and why is it advantageous to have lower class people? –Keith Gillis

5. What determines whether an occupation is prestigious or not? –Danielle Jones

6. Explain the difference between relative and absolute poverty –Danielle Jones

7. What was the main problem of having only three (3) racial categories? -Danielle Jones

8. What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination? Why are stereotypes so pervasive and appealing? –Akec Majuk

9. Why is “race” a biological misnomer? Akec Majuk

10. What are three (3) family forms? –Chelsea Haugen

11. What is serial monogamy? –Keith Gillis

12. What is the “covenant marriage”? –Dr. Vigilant

13. What does the propinquity concept say about the “soul mate” idea? -Dr. Vigilant

Questions for Exam # 3

Charles Lemert’s Thinking the Unthinkable: The Riddles of Classical Theories

Chapter 7: The Reasonable Hope of a Social Bond: Emile Durkheim

1. What was Durkheim’s “most elegant phrase,” and what did it mean? –Emilie Dalbec

2. What is the “moral bond” described by Durkheim, and what is its function in society? –Emilie Dalbec & Rachel Branson

3. What is anomie? {Follow-up question: Why was Durkheim so concerned about this concept?} –Danielle Jones

4. What role did Durkheim think sociology could play in modern society in terms of ethics? –Danielle Jones

5. How did Marx, Weber, and Durkheim see the cause of conflict in industrial society differently? –Danielle Jones

6. According to Durkheim, what is the cause of suicide? –Tiffany Irving

7. What is Functionalism?

8. What was Durkheim’s opinion on the industrial conflict? –Cody Severson

Violence, War, and the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (pg. 159) and Chapter 14: The Unfolding of Social Theory in the Unraveling of the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First

1. What was Weber’s doctrine of speed, and [follow-up] what did rationalization have to do with this idea? –Chelsea Haugen

2. What answers were given for the question of “Why do rational people give away political freedoms to political leaders who are evidently incompetent?” [Follow-up: What were Max Weber & Emile Durkheim’s responses to this question?] –Katyana Eleson

3. According to Lemert, what event marks the beginning of the 20th Century, and what event marks the end of the 20th Century? –Danielle Jones

Susan Ferguson’s Mapping the Social Landscape

Dog & Erdoes’ Civilize Them with a Stick

1. How did the “do-gooders” propose to fix the “Indian Problem”? {Follow-up Question: What was the “Indian Problem”?} –Rachel Branson

2. How did the boarding school foster fights between the various groups (i.e., Whites, Breeds, and Skins)? –Kayla Colvin & Tiffany Kline

3. How were boarding schools made, and what was their function? –Tiffany Kline

4. According to an old medicine man, what is the difference between the White man and the Lakota? –Tiffany Kline

5. What is the “Maza-Skan-Skan,” {and what essential cultural difference did it come to stand for between the Native Students and White teachers?} –Emilie Dalbec

6. What are the “10 Rules” Native Americans should follow according to the missionaries? – Sari Lautt & Emilie Dalbec

7. Why weren’t parents very sympathetic when they learned how harshly their children were being punished? –Cody Severson

8. How does “Indian time” differ from “White man’s time”? –Lindsay Majerus

9. Why did the two authors consider that taking Native American children to boarding schools was tantamount to being “kidnapped”? –Tiffany Irving

10. What were some of the nuns’ reactions to seeing some of the girls huddled in bed together? What were the girls really doing? –Tiffany Irving

11. How did the previous lifestyle of Native American children differ from the new lifestyle in the boarding schools? –Danielle Jones

12. What do the authors mean when they say “racism breeds racism in reverse”? –Danielle Jones

Kozol’s Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Education Apartheid

1. What argument do most educators make today, according to the author, which justifies the educational status quo of segregation? –Kayla Colvin

2. What was the problem with the bathrooms at Fremont High School?

3. What are three (3) examples the author gives of inadequacy in inner-city schools? –Tiffany Kline

4. Why must students take “sewing and hairdressing” classes? –Tiffany Kline

5. How does the article describe “diversity,” and why is this a distortion of the concept? –Emilie Dalbec

6. What are high-stakes tests? –Emilie Dalbec

7. What does S.F.A stand for, and what does it mean? –Emilie Dalbec

8. What is the most damaging aspect with any serious effort to address the problem racial segregation openly? –Rachel Branson & Lindsay Majerus

9. Who is the primary target of “school reform,” and why? –Mikayla Williams

10. Give a brief explication of the court cases Brown vs. Board of Education and Plessy vs. Ferguson? Which one does Kozol feel is an accurate description of today’s education? –Tiffany Irving

11. What is so ironic about some of the big city public schools being named after people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall? –Danielle Jones

12. Why does it seem like such a waste that the public schools in wealthy districts are funded at such high levels while the public schools that poor minority children attend have extremely low funding? –Danielle Jones

13. What is the agreed-upon convention that most media uses to describe segregated schools? –Rachel Thompson

Weber’s Protestant Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism

1. How is waste of time classified? –Emilie Dalbec

2. What does Calvinism/Puritanism say the deadliest of sins is, and what are some examples of that sin? –Danielle Jones

3. What two (2) important factors made the modern rational organization of the capitalist enterprise possible? –Rachel Branson

4. What is one of the most important factors that brought about the modern rational organization of the capitalist enterprise? –Cody Severson

5. According to Weber, what primary factors influenced the development of a capitalist economic system? –Mikayla Williams

6. How does the idea of man’s duty affect his life? –Katyana Eleson

Chaves’ Abiding Faith

1. Why do Americans “believe as much but practice less”? –Danielle Jones

2. What four (4) developments in society do many scholars believe automatically undermine religious belief? –Rachel Branson

3. What did Chaves discover about Americans and religion? –Tiff Irving

4. Explain why Chaves says that religion is more broad than deep. –Tiff Irving

5. What are the major religious differences between blacks and whites, and betweem men and women? –Mikayla Williams

6. What reasons are given for the persistence of religious beliefs? –Katyana Eleson

Karp’s Illness and Identity

1. List, and provide an explication for, identity turning points in depression illness. –Chelsea Haugen & Katyana Eleson

2. How does Karen describe/classify her illness? –Emilie Dalbec

3. What are inchoate feelings? –Emilie Dalbec

4. What is the “crisis point”? –Chelsea Fuller

5. Describe one way that this article relates to Currie’s Road to Whatever. –Danielle Jones

6. Why do people like Karen feel that it is a necessity to keep their depression a secret from other? –Rachel Thompson

Oberlander’s The U.S. Health Care System: On a Road to Nowhere?

1. Why is the U.S. health care system a “paradox of excess and deprivation?”

2. What was the most popular health care coverage in the U.S. in 2002? –Chelsea Haugen

3. What is medical sociology, and what are its areas of study? –Emilie Dalbe

4. What is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States? –Emilie Dalbec

5. What four (4) major changes occurred with “managed care”? –Chelsea Fuller & Rachel Thompson

6. What are the three (3) predictable dynamics of American Health Care? –Chelsea Fuller

7. What does the author think is the most relevant fact about U.S. health politics –and why? –Katyana Eleson

Johnson’s What Can We Do? Becoming a Part of the Solution

1. According to Johnson, what is “privilege?” –Rachel Branson & Chelsea Fuller

2. What is the paradox surrounding the problem of privilege? –Katyana Eleson

3. According to the author, when does privilege exist, and in what ways do systems of privilege make privilege invisible? –Kayla Colvin

4. What will “reclaiming language” accomplish? –Tiffany Kline

5. What is the key ingredient to oppressive systems? –Chelsea Fuller

6. Why do most people follow life strategies based on adapting to the power relations of their world? –Chelsea Fuller & Katyana Eleson

7. What initiates a process of change? –Chelsea Fuller

Brecher, Costello, & Smith’s Globalization and Social Movements

1. What are some examples of social movements that overcame equal or greater concentrations of wealth and power? –Kayla Colvin

2. What are some “pitfalls” that cause social movements to go wrong? –Kayla Colvin

3. What is convergence? Give some examples of both positive and negative convergence. –Rachel Branson & Chelsea Haugen

4. What pitfalls must globalization from below avoid in order to succeed? –Robert Wright

Dr. Vigilant’s Lecture Notes

1. According to the sociologist Randall Collins, what is “Credentialism,” and what is the current issue surrounding it? –Tiffany Kline

2. What is “education inflation,” and how can you avoid it? –Laurel Wallert

3. What are the social functions of American education? –Laurel Wallert

4. What are the four (4) main educational quandaries or problems? –Chelsea Haugen

5. What is the difference between a centripetal and centrifugal religion? {Follow-up: Give examples of each of these religious forms.} –Chelsea Haugen & Danielle Jones

6. According to Emile Durkheim, what are the social functions of all religions? –Danielle Jones

7. What is the difference between immigration and emigration, and [follow-up] what are the pull and push factors of migration? –Kayla Colvin

8. What is the main difference between an expressive social movement and an instrumental one? –Kayla Colvin

9. What does the resource mobilization theory argue about social movements? –Kayla Colvin [Follow-up: How does it differ from the relative deprivation perspective?]

10. What are the four (4) areas of demographic analysis? –Tiffany Kline [Follow-up: List and explicate the stages of the Demographic Transition Theory.]

11. What are the five (5) causes of death according to the CDC? –Chelsea Haugen

12. What are Uganda’s A-B-Cs of HIV/AIDS, and what demographic does each letter target? –Chelsea Haugen

13. What is a social movement? [Follow-up: List and explicate the various types of social movements.] –Danielle Jones

Study Hard, Prosper & Be In Health

Dr. Vigilant

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