BAM Sociology Final Exam questions
well answered graded A+ passed
Social imagination - ANS ✔
Durkheim Religion Requirements - ANS ✔1. Notion of the Supernatural
- mystery, unknowable, incomprehensible
2. Religious Phenomena
- beliefs-- opinions and representations
- rites-- modes of action
3. Devision of the World -- Profane and Sacred
- not solely connected to God or spiritual being
4. Magic and Religion
- must be distinguished
5. Church
- membership must be beyond yourself
Durkheim on Magic - ANS ✔differences of magic and religion:
- it does not separate the profane and sacred
-customers not followers
Durkheim - Totemism - ANS ✔collective symbols that represent both god and society (I.e. bald
eagle represents patriotism)
Marx Communist Manifesto - ANS ✔-1848
, - influential political manuscripts
- critical of capitalism and class struggle
- society cannot exist without class struggle
Marx solution to capitalism - ANS ✔-relies solely on exploitation of the worker
- proletariate must feel alienated
- class struggle requires exploitation
Marx history of society - ANS ✔- based on a ruling class of citizens and class of slaves
- Bourgeois is the ruling class
-Proletariat is the slave class
Weber Protestant motivation - ANS ✔- one must work for their money
- if not working hard then can't get into heaven
- I.e. credit score = protestant ethic
social stratification - ANS ✔dividing groups of people by category
social character - ANS ✔personality patterns common to members of a particular society
Tradition directed - ANS ✔- goal: outlive parents
- story telling:
Inner directed - ANS ✔- gyroscope: impacted by family then authority figures
- teachers: strict structure, mold student to exceed parents in social ladder, standardized
curriculum, security
well answered graded A+ passed
Social imagination - ANS ✔
Durkheim Religion Requirements - ANS ✔1. Notion of the Supernatural
- mystery, unknowable, incomprehensible
2. Religious Phenomena
- beliefs-- opinions and representations
- rites-- modes of action
3. Devision of the World -- Profane and Sacred
- not solely connected to God or spiritual being
4. Magic and Religion
- must be distinguished
5. Church
- membership must be beyond yourself
Durkheim on Magic - ANS ✔differences of magic and religion:
- it does not separate the profane and sacred
-customers not followers
Durkheim - Totemism - ANS ✔collective symbols that represent both god and society (I.e. bald
eagle represents patriotism)
Marx Communist Manifesto - ANS ✔-1848
, - influential political manuscripts
- critical of capitalism and class struggle
- society cannot exist without class struggle
Marx solution to capitalism - ANS ✔-relies solely on exploitation of the worker
- proletariate must feel alienated
- class struggle requires exploitation
Marx history of society - ANS ✔- based on a ruling class of citizens and class of slaves
- Bourgeois is the ruling class
-Proletariat is the slave class
Weber Protestant motivation - ANS ✔- one must work for their money
- if not working hard then can't get into heaven
- I.e. credit score = protestant ethic
social stratification - ANS ✔dividing groups of people by category
social character - ANS ✔personality patterns common to members of a particular society
Tradition directed - ANS ✔- goal: outlive parents
- story telling:
Inner directed - ANS ✔- gyroscope: impacted by family then authority figures
- teachers: strict structure, mold student to exceed parents in social ladder, standardized
curriculum, security
