SOC302 Final Term Important Questions

Social stratification and its characteristics Slavery, caste, and class systems with examples Social mobility: intragenerational, intergenerational, structural mobility with examples Functionalist vs. conflict theory perspectives on stratification Difference between race and ethnicity Minority group definition and role of power Prejudice and discrimination, including institutional discrimination Patterns of intergroup relations: assimilation, pluralism, segregation with examples Difference between sex and gender, gender as a social construct Gender role socialization and agents of socialization Functional and conflict perspectives on gender inequality Nuclear vs. extended family structures with examples Manifest and latent functions of education with examples Conflict theory critique of education system (hidden curriculum) Sociological definition of religion and its functions from functionalist view Malthus’s theory of population and its checks Demographic transition model and its stages Trends in urbanization and their effects on social life Types of collective behavior: crowds, fads, rumors with examples Social movements and their types: reformative, revolutionary, alternative, resistance