Cat Unit 1 Review Sheet

CAT/Sociology 1

Review Sheet: Unit 1 PEOPLE and their IDEAS: Karl Marx Max Weber Emile Durkheim Sigmund Freud

Adam Smith Jeremy Bentham C. Wright Mills George H. Meade

TERMS: Social structure Social action Functional integration Power Culture Sociological Imagination Manifest function Latent function Solidarity, mechanical and organic

Class consciousness Social consensus Rational choice theory Anomie Status groups Verstehen Alienation Invisible and visible hand Defense mechanisms

THEORIES Conflict Functionalist Symbolic-Interactionist

READINGS Understanding Sociology, Chapter 1 “The Protestant Ethic” “The Promise” by C. Wright Mills


For
the
Theories,
you
will
need
to
not
only
know
 definitions,
but
also
be
able
to
identify
examples
 of
the
theories
in
use.