Sociology for the MCAT

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

Adjunto:

• OWT 222 Group Decision Making

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

      Adjunto:

      • 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

Adjunto:

• Social Categorisation, Stereotyping and Prejudice

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

   Adjunto:

   • 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

   Adjunto:

   • 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

   Adjunto:

   • Feminist Theory
7. Exchange-rational choice

   Adjunto:

   • Social Exchange Theory - Formation

1. Education

   Adjunto:

   • Roles of Education
2. Family

   Adjunto:

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

   Adjunto:

   • 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

   Adjunto:

   • 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

      Adjunto:

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

      Adjunto:

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

1. Theories of Demographic Change

   Adjunto:

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

1. Social Stratification

   Adjunto:

   • Sociology- social stratification
2. Social Mobility

   Adjunto:

   • SOCIAL MOBILITY

Adjunto:

• Lecture 16 - Health Inequalities