The following questions may be helpful in preparing for the first exam.  The answers to these questions are found in the Kendall textbook.  Questions on the exam from reading-only will come from the following sets.  There will also be questions from the lecture-only, and some questions that reflect the overlap of the reading and lecture.

Good luck!
 

Kendall Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective and Research Process
1. What is meant by personal troubles and public issues and what sociological concept helps distinguish between these things?
2. Who was Harriet Martineau?  What did she advocate and whose writings did she translate and condense?
3. Where were the first two departments of Sociology established in the United States?
4. What were W.E.B. DuBois' major accomplishments?
5. Who was Jane Addams and why did she win a Nobel Prize?
6. What do postmodernist perspectives attempt to accomplish?
7. What are the characteristics of the various research methods?
8. What are the ethical standards for social research set forth by the American Sociological Association?

I. C. Wright Mills. "The Promise of Sociology." p. 1 in Macionis Reader
1. How are the lives of people shaped by history?
2. What is the "first fruit" of the sociological imagination?
3. Identify the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works.
4. Be able to recognize the differences between personal trouble issues and structural issues in the cases
    of war, marriage, and unemployment.

II. Jay J. Coakley. "How Would a Sociologist Look at Sport?" p. 10 in Macionis Reader
1. How is the sociology of sport different from the psychology of sport?
2. How does the sociology of sport sometimes create controversy?
3. Why are married women with children less likely to participate in sport?
4. In what ways does sport impact family, education, politics, economics, and religion?

Kendall Chapter 2: Culture
1. What is the difference between real culture and ideal culture?
2. What are different types of sanctions?
3. What is cultural lag?
4. What is high culture and what is its purpose according to Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital theory?
5. What are the three forms of popular culture?
6. What are different types of fads?

III. Leslie A. White. "Symbol: The Basic Element of Culture." p. 30
1. How does White define "symbol?"
2. Why are symbols important to the emergence and perpetuation of culture?
3. What is the most important form of symbolic expression?
4. What are symbolic and non-symbolic behaviors?
5.  What famous person is used as an example of the importance of symbols in culture?

Kendall Chapter 3: Socialization
1. What was the nature of actress Drew Barrymore's first encounter with her father?
2. What is sociobiology?
3. How does social isolation affect humans?
4. According to George Herbert Mead, what is the difference between the "I" and the "Me?"
5. What are gender and racial socialization?
6. What is anticipatory socialization?
7. What are total institutions and what functions do these have in the socialization process?

IV. Jean Kilbourne. "Socialization and the Power of Advertising." p. 80
1. How many people turned away from the 1999 Superbowl to log on to the Victoria's Secret website following a commercial
    during the game?
2. What is the target age for online advertisers who are trying to develop "brand loyalty?"
3. Why do schools allow for advertising in their buildings?
4. Why was Mike Cameron, a senior at a high school in Georgia, suspended from school?
5. Does Kilbourne believe that one can avoid advertising?  Why or why not?