Since exam#1, we have examined
both socialization and the impact of industrialization on the institution of
economy. Exam #2 will focus exclusively on what we have discussed about those issues. You should know and be prepared to
answer questions about and/or explain any material from the list of items
below. The readings are still fair
game for the exam, but, especially for the section on specialization and
stratification the bulk of material was covered in class lecture and discussion.
I.
Socialization (be able to define socialization, and know the following
materials)
A. Sigmund Freud
1.
Psychoanalysis
2.
Psychanalytic theory on the formation of identity
a. the three parts of the self
b. the three key developmental stages
3.
Criticisms of Freud (know, and be able to explain, them)
B. George Herbert Mead
1.
Definitions of social action and social interaction
2.
Stages of symbolic interaction in formation of the social self
II.
Industrialization and Economy: you should know the following materials.
A. Social Differentiation (definition)
1. Specialization
(definitions, examples)
2. Stratification ( " " )
B. Theories of Specialization
1. Smith, Durkheim, Marx
C. The Household Economy and the
Transition to Large-Scale Capitalism
1. Characteristics of the
household economy
2. Transition to the market:
the 3 essential characteristics of the market
a.
differences with household economy
3. The commodity-production
circuit
a.
surplus value
b.
impact on social relations of work
D. Impact of Specialization on
Stratification
1. two
general predictions of this impact (know them)
a. Marx, Smith
2. Post-Industrial Society
a.
Daniel Bell
b.
what is post-industrial society? what do these
theorists have to say?
E. Measures of Stratification
1. What measures, specifically? (i.e., at what indicators
does one look to get a picture of the stratification system?)
2. What are the “two stories” the data on stratification
tell?
3. What is the evidence about stratification? (be able to
provide examples, illustrations, approximations [of the data themselves)
4. What is the relationship between education and
socio-economic status? How do we know?
5. Whose prediction (Smith or Marx? Both? Neither?) is best supported by the data?
6. Do the data support the idea that we have become a post-industrial
society? How, specifically?
7. What are the five “functional” occupational
categories? Which of the five is the most significant in the contemporary
economy? How does this (or does it not) relate to both the notion of
post-industrial society and to the stratification system?
II. Readings (for which you will be held responsible):
A. Text. Pp 258-263 on Economic Systems; Chapters 4,
9
B. Reader:
Mead, “The Self”
Kilbourne, “Socialization and the Power of Advertising”
Toennies, “Gemeinschaft and Gesselschaft”
Weber,
“The Disenchantment of Modern Life”
Simons,
“The Price of Modernization”
Marx,
“Alienated Labor”
Durkheim,
“Anomy and Modern Life”
Davis and
Moore, “Some
Principles of Stratification”
Wilson, “When
Work Disappears”
Newman,
“Getting a Job in Harlem”
Hacker,
“Who Has How Much…”