Sociology for the MCAT

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

Attachments:

• OWT 222 Group Decision Making

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

      Attachments:

      • 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

Attachments:

• Social Categorisation, Stereotyping and Prejudice

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

   Attachments:

   • 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

   Attachments:

   • 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

   Attachments:

   • Feminist Theory
7. Exchange-rational choice

   Attachments:

   • Social Exchange Theory - Formation

1. Education

   Attachments:

   • Roles of Education
2. Family

   Attachments:

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

   Attachments:

   • 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

   Attachments:

   • 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

      Attachments:

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

      Attachments:

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

1. Theories of Demographic Change

   Attachments:

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

1. Social Stratification

   Attachments:

   • Sociology- social stratification
2. Social Mobility

   Attachments:

   • SOCIAL MOBILITY

Attachments:

• Lecture 16 - Health Inequalities