SA 150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Spurious Relationship, Auguste Comte, Hidden Curriculum

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Sf: social functions, manifest functions, latent functions, dysfunctions, organic analogy. Concept, variable (independent and dependent), measurement, operationalization, hypothesis, reliability and validity, correlation, cause and effect, spurious correlation. Nurture and nature, the effect of isolation on rhesus and human children. Agents of socialization: family, schools, peer groups, and mass media. George herbert mead"s theory of the social self: i and me, imitation stage, play stage, game stage, significant other and generalized other. Status, status set, ascribed status, achieved status, master status. Role, role set, role conflict, role strain, role exit. Dramaturgical analysis: presentation of self, back region and front region, non-verbal communication, demeanor, use of space, tact, idealization, embarrassment, Social group, non-groups (crowds, categories), primary group, secondary group, in-group and out-group. Group leadership (instrumental and expressive roles, authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire styles) Formal organizations (utilitarian, normative, coercive), characteristics of bureaucracies, problems of bureaucracy, the mcdonaldization of society. Sf: durkheim"s basic insight on deviance; robert merton"s strain theory of deviance.