Sociology for the MCAT

1. Social control
2. Peer pressure
3. Conformity
4. Obedience

Anlagen:

• OWT 222 Group Decision Making

1. Social Norms
   1. Sanctions
   2. Folkways
   3. Anomie

      Anlagen:

      • Part 2 - Ch 7: Social Structure and Anomie
2. Deviance
3. Collective Behavior

1. Family
2. Peers
3. Mass Media
4. Schools

1. Different types of identities

1. Theories of Identity
2. Influence of Social Factors
3. Influence of Culture

Anlagen:

• Social Categorisation, Stereotyping and Prejudice

1. Power, prestige, class
2. Stereotypes
3. Stigma

   Anlagen:

   • Labels and stigma
4. Ethnocentrism

1. Role
2. Groups
3. Networks
4. Organizations
   1. Bureaucracy

1. Presentation of Self/ dramaturgical perspective
2. Expressing and detecting emotion
   1. Gender
   2. Culture

1. Social Support
2. Altruism

   Anlagen:

   • Altruism and morality

1. Institutional
2. Individual
3. Prejudice

1. Microsociology vs. macrosociology
2. Functionalism
3. Conflict theory
4. Symbolic interactionism
5. Social constructionism
6. Feminist theory

   Anlagen:

   • Feminist Theory
7. Exchange-rational choice

   Anlagen:

   • Social Exchange Theory - Formation

1. Education

   Anlagen:

   • Roles of Education
2. Family

   Anlagen:

   • Sociology- Family and Households Flashcards
   • Families and Households
3. Religion

   Anlagen:

   • Factors Affecting Religiosity
4. Government and economy
5. Health and medicine
6. Criminal justice and law

1. beliefs, language, rituals, symbols, values
2. Multiculturalism and assimilation

   Anlagen:

   • Multiculturalsim - Glossary
3. Material & symbolic
4. Culture lag
5. Culture shock
6. Subcultures and countercultures
7. Mass media and popular culture
8. Transmission and diffusion

1. Age
   1. cohorts
   2. Social Significance
   3. Life course

      Anlagen:

      • Postmodernity and the life course
2. Gender
   1. Sex and Gender
   2. Social Construction
3. Race and Ethnicity
   1. Social construction

      Anlagen:

      • Social constructionism
   2. Racial Formation
4. Sexual orientation
5. Immigration Status

1. Theories of Demographic Change

   Anlagen:

   • Population, Sustainability & Malthus
2. Fertility. Migration, Mortality
3. Social Movements
4. Globalization
5. Urbanization

1. Social Stratification

   Anlagen:

   • Sociology- social stratification
2. Social Mobility

   Anlagen:

   • SOCIAL MOBILITY

Anlagen:

• Lecture 16 - Health Inequalities