Study Guide SOCL 100

Fall 2016
Instructor: Flowerday
People
Auguste Comte
Emile Durkheim
Erving Goffman
Kark Marx
Max Weber
Will Roscoe (used in class discussion on gender; file also available in Moodle)
Terms, Concepts
Bureaucracy, bureaucratization
Caste
Category
Conformity
Crime
Deviance
Dyad and Triad
Ethics in Research
Ethnicity
Ethnocentrism
For profit Capitalism
Gender
Gender complexity
Gender stratification
Globalization (ordinary, remote, close)
Group
Group
Hierarchy
Impersonal relationships
Interactionist Theory
Laws and Society
Lombroso
McDonaldization
Milgrams Research
Minority, minority status
New Political Economic Order (UN, World Bank, IMF)
Norms
Obedience
Patriarchy
Population
Positivism
Pressure from peers, parents, legal systems
Primary and Secondary groups
Race
Scheduled castes (including Bheels, Kolhis, Bagris, Lachhis, Chuhras)
Sexism
Sexual Harassment
Social Capitalism
Social Class
Social Conflict Theory
Social power
Social Status
Social Stratification
Sociological Perspective

Stereotypes
Structure-Function theory
Voluntary, involuntary groups
Topics
Nineteenth century European events that contributed to the discipline of
sociology
Deviance (formal and informal)
Theories: Structure Function Theory; Conflict Theory; Symbolic Interaction
Theory
ESSAY 30 points
Gender is the focus of the essay. The essay has three parts. Each part must be
labeled and answered by numeral and alphabetic entry.

Part I. Conceptual Understanding. Provide a working concept of gender that is

used in sociology in your response to the entries below (10 points)
a) What is the sociological concept of gender discussed in our course?
b) How can gender differ from society to society? (Roscoe)
c) How does the sociological meaning of gender differ from local,
popularized notions that you know? (Use an example best known in
your society)
Part II. Application: You are to apply your understanding of gender from Part I
to the reading by Deborah Tannen. (Conversational Style: Talking on the
Job, Chapter One, Harper Collins Publishers, 1994)
a) Give an example from Tannens text that demonstrates different
conversational styles used by men and by women (5 points)
b) Explain the miscommunication between the manager and a male
employee (5 points)
c) Who is Goffman and why is his theoretical position important to
Tannens study? (5 points)
Part III.
Based on your experience in Pakistan, how does gender operate in
communication between men and women? Is it the same as in the
American system described by Tannen? (5 points)