STUDY REVIEW GUIDE MIDTERM EXAM (July 24th)
SOC 110 (Chapters one through seven)
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Definitions of
 Primary and secondary groups
 Achieved status
 Ascribed status
 Master status
 Bureaucracy
 Groupthink
 Reference group
 In Group and out group
 Ethnocentrism
 Nonmaterial and material culture
 Counter culture
 Culture Shock
 Nonverbal communication
 Role
 Role strain and role conflict
 Status
 Sub culture
 Total institution
 Dyad and triad
 Sexual script
 Transgender
 Assexual
 Deviance
 Medicalization of deviance
Difference between sex and gender
Primary and secondary sex characteristics
Types of sexual orientation
Different types of societies and their level of technology
Three styles of leadership
Two types of leadership roles
Key elements of Bureaucracy
Principles of McDonaldization
Major agents of socialization and the importance of family
Independent and dependent variables
Steps in research
Different forms of sociological research methods (experiment, survey, secondary analysis, participant
observation etc)
Research on group conformity by Asch, Milgram and Janis
Two types of sanctions
The difference between white collar crime, corporate crime and organized crime.
Examples of victimless crimes
Types of punishment used in societies
Theories to know
19. Structural Functional theory, Social Conflict theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory
20. Freud’s concepts; id, ego and superego
21. Jean Piget’s Theory of development
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Erik Erickson’s Theory of development
George Herbert Mead’s social self theory
Goffman; Dramaturgical theory
C. Right Mills’ “Sociological imagination”
Merton’s Strain Theory
Labeling Theory