Study Guide: Sociology 2111, Exam Two

I. Multiple Choice. Be able to define, identify, and/or use the following:
a. collective conscience
b. social cohesion
c. social facts
d. organic solidarity
e. mechanical solidarity
f. altruistic suicide
g. egoistic suicide
h. anomic suicide
i. the sacred (Durkheim)
j. capitalist world system
k. core states
l. peripheral areas
m. social movement
n. Tocqueville's theory of rising expectations
o. Marx's theory of the development of class consciousness
p. Weber's theory of charismatic leaders and groups
q. collective behavior theory of social movements
r. resource mobilization/ political process theory of social movements
s. power elite
t. Kai Erikson's theory of crime waves
u. social disorganization theory
v. globalization
w. jihad vs. McWorld
x. W.I. Thomas
y. Anthony Giddens
z. Immanuel Wallerstein
aa. C. Wright Mills
bb. Emile Durkheim
cc. "In a Dark Time"
dd. . "Ain't Scared of Your Jails"
ee. "Inside the School for Assassins"
ff. "Taking Back the Schools"
gg. . "The Global Assembly Line"

II. Essay questions:
1. Show how Kai Erikson's analysis of "crime waves" relates to Durkheim's treatment of deviant behavior. How does Erikson's treatment of crime waves shed light on cultural clashes and social conflicts of the 1960s? How were those conflicts eventually resolved (or were they)?

2. What would Durkheim say to those who argue that all human behavior can ultimately be reduced to self-interest?

3. Analyze "Inside the School for Assassins" and "The Global Assembly Line" in terms of the theories of Mills and Wallerstein.

4. Why did the American civil rights movement have such a major impact on social movement theory? In other words, why did the then-dominant collective behavior theory fail to explain major features of the civil rights movement? What kind of theory or theories replaced collective behavior theory, and why were they a better fit?

5. Why did Mills get such a negative reception when he first published The Power Elite in the mid-1950s, and why did his book become much more central to the sociology of the 1960s and 1970s? How did Mills think more democracy could be promoted in the United States?

6. Wallerstein would argue that globalization is a phenomenon that goes back to the 16th century and that was already understood pretty well by Marx in the mid-19th century; Giddens argues that it is a fundamentally new phenomenon. Summarize their arguments.

7. Analyze "Taking Back the Schools" in terms of Bourdieu's social reproduction theory; also analyze it in terms of social movement theory.