PART I---YOU NAME IT...SELECT 5...10 PTS EACH = 50 POINTS
Since the beginning of our course and out of all the material, ideas, and concepts (in textbook, lectures, and online) we covered this quarter...there are undoubtably some which stand out to you as being more substantive or important than others. I’d like to know what some of these are and why...so, I want you to pick five (5) of them (your choice) and explain them to me. For each you pick...do the following:
1. Define/explain it in detail
2. Tell me why it’s important (personally or collectively) (i.e. why did you pick it?)
What you pick is as important as what you say about it. In other words, select “major” items of significance, not trivial/easy ones (in order to just get it done). Also, (and for instance), some ideas are ‘clumped’ together (in 2’s, 3’s, etc.)...such as the Motifs of Sociological Consciousness. If you would happen to pick the Motifs, do them all...not just one of them. This means, of course, you’ll need to consider the material carefully before selecting. You can also connect singular items into a “whole”...items with a common thread (i.e. synergism, latent functions, unintended consequences, social facts)...are related in some way.
So, this is a chance for you to tell me what you “know” and/or have “learned” in SOC 204...and WHY.
However, you cannot select anything covered by the other questions you answered on this test.
PART II---CHOICE...PICK 2...10 PTS EACH = 20 POINTS
1. As a means (tool) of conceptualizing the lived-experience of actual people...individually & collectively...why was Dialectical Logic the preferred logic system in this class?
2. Define/Explain the “sociological imagination” (according to Mills).
3. As portrayed in the Stanford Prison Experiment video (Quiet Rage), what did Zimbardo mean by the “power of the situation”?
4. Without simply using the definition I supplied, define Sociology using its domain assumption and the three underlying/derivative assumptions.
PART III---REQUIRED QUESTION FOR ALL---30 POINTS
Why can we say that Formal Logic is...a paradigm, a closed meaning system, ideological, ethnocentric, ignorant, egoistic, systematic and surface descriptive?
BONUS QUESTION---NOT REQUIRED---PICK 1 (WORTH 1-5 POINTS)
1. When is the future...and why?
2. What benefit(s) is there in seeing ourselves as the “products” of social forces?
DUE: Between 10-12 AM on Thursday, June 10...IN OUR CLASSROOM
I prefer typed finals...although it is not required (please write clearly if not typed)
Remember...I evaluate answers to see what credit I can give, not to take points off. So, answer everything...give me something to work with...a blank answer doesn’t give me much.
I encourage you to work with others...but when it comes to writing your answers...do it separately (i.e. don’t come up with a ‘collective’ answer...do your own work)
Finally, I don’t write much on Finals due to time constraints and the fact that not many students come to get it back. However, if you do want your Final back, I’ll have them in my office during the first 4-week summer term.
THANK-YOU!!
