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Sociology 101: Study Notes

Dr. Brian Donohue-Lynch

Fall 2011

This is an outline in progress. It is simply meant to highlight key themes, and topics as part of an overall introduction to sociology.  It does not follow any specific textbook, but does reflect something of a typical textbook outline, and could be used with most such texts.

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Table of Contents

Sociology

The Study of People in Groups

Scientific Study of Groups

Methods of study

Suspending Judgement

Theories of Study

Functionalism

Functionalism: Durkheim

Social Conflict Theory

Social Conflict Theory:Marx

Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic Interactionists

Culture and Society

Culture and Society

Socialization

Groups

Groups: Common Terms

Groups: More Terms

Formal Organizations

Bureaucracies

Social Inequality

Stratification:

Class: Marx

Class: Marx

Class: Weber

Poverty Among the Stratified

Relative and Absolute Poverty

Causes of Poverty

Other Divisions: Race and Ethnicity

Race: Key Terms

Race: More Key Terms

Contents, continued:

Other Divisions: Gender

Gender: Nature vs. Nurture

Gender: biological destiny?

Gender: biological destiny?

Social Institutions

Social Institutions Include...

Family: The way we never were...

Religion= Primitive Science?

Religion vs. Science?

Religion vs. Science?

Sociology and Religion: Which theory would say...

Deviance and Social Control

Deviance and Social Control

Deviance and Social Control

Which theory would....

A Rap on Deviance

U.S. Income Distribution

U.S. Income Distribution

U.S. Income Distribution

U.S. Income Distribution

U.S. Income Distribution

Author: Dr. Brian Donohue-Lynch

Email: blynch ( AT)  qvcc.commnet.edu

Home Page: http://www.qvcc.commnet.edu/brian/

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