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Theoretical Approaches (SOC)
- Microsociology vs. macrosociology
- Functionalism
- Conflict theory
- Symbolic interactionism
- Social constructionism
- Exchange-rational choice
- Feminist theory
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- Ch. 1: Sociology
- Ch. 2: Examining the Social World
- Ch. 4: Socialization
- Ch. 6: Deviance and Social Control
- Ch. 7: Stratification
- Ch. 10: Family
- Ch. 11: Education
- Ch. 12: Religion
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Sociological Theory |
- Ch. 2, Seeing and Thinking Sociologically, pp. 38-41 (“Three perspectives on social order”)
- Ch. 3, Building Reality: The Social Construction of Knowledge
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- Ch. 1, p. 5
- Ch. 12, pp. 456-457
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Social Institutions (SOC)
- Education
- Hidden curriculum
- Teacher expectancy
- Educational segregation and stratification
- Family (PSY, SOC)
- Forms of kinship (SOC)
- Diversity in family forms
- Marriage and divorce
- Violence in the family (e.g., child abuse, elder abuse, spousal abuse) (SOC)
- Religion
- Religiosity
- Types of religious organizations (e.g., churches, sects, cults)
- Religion and social change (e.g., modernization, secularization, fundamentalism)
- Government and economy
- Power and authority
- Comparative economic and political systems
- Division of labor
- Health and medicine
- Medicalization
- The sick role
- Delivery of health care
- Illness experience
- Social epidemiology
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- Ch. 1: Social Institutions
- Ch. 10: Family
- Ch. 11: Education
- Ch. 12: Religion
- Ch. 13: Politics and Economics
- Ch. 14: Health Care
- Ch. 16: Process of Change
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Economy |
- Chapters 4, 8, 9, 10, 11
- Ch. 10, The Architecture of Stratification: Social Class and Inequality;
- Ch. 11, The Architecture of Inequality: Race and Ethnicity
- Ch. 7, Building Social Relationships: Intimacy and Families.
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- Ch. 4, pp. 118, 136-138, 155-157
- Ch. 7, pp. 240, 262
- Ch. 8, pp. 292-294
- Ch. 10, p. 376
- Ch. 11, pp. 384-406
- Ch. 12, pp. 422-429, 443, 451-452
- Ch. 14, pp. 504, 512
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Culture (PSY, SOC)
- Elements of culture (e.g., beliefs, language, rituals, symbols, values)
- Material vs. symbolic culture (SOC)
- Culture lag (SOC)
- Culture shock (SOC)
- Assimilation (SOC)
- Multiculturalism (SOC)
- Subcultures and countercultures (SOC)
- Mass media and popular culture (SOC)
- Evolution and human culture (PSY, BIO)
- Transmission and diffusion (SOC)
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- Ch. 3: Society and Culture
- Ch. 8: Race and Ethnic Group Stratification
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Culture |
- Ch. 4, Building Order: Culture and History
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- Ch. 2, pp. 76-77
- Ch. 3, pp. 111-113
- Ch. 5, pp. 177-178, 184-185
- Ch. 7, pp. 262-263
- Ch. 9, pp. 319-321
- Ch. 10, p. 353
- Ch. 12, pp. 420- 430, 443-450
- Ch. 13, pp. 489-491
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