Sociology for the MCAT

Content Category 7B: Social processes that influence human behavior
1. How others influence individual behavior
  1. Social control
  2. Peer pressure
  3. Conformity
  4. Obedience
2. Group decision making processes
  Anexos:
  - OWT 222 Group Decision Making
3. Normative and Non Normative Behavior
  1. Social Norms
    1. Sanctions
    2. Folkways
    3. Anomie
      Anexos:
      - Part 2 - Ch 7: Social Structure and Anomie
  2. Deviance
  3. Collective Behavior
4. Socialization
  1. Family
  2. Peers
  3. Mass Media
  4. Schools
Content category 8A: Self Identity
1. Self-Concept, Self-identity, and Social Identity
  1. Different types of identities
2. Formation of Identity
  1. Theories of Identity
  2. Influence of Social Factors
  3. Influence of Culture
Content Category 8B: Social thinking
1. Prejudice and Bias
  Anexos:
  - Social Categorisation, Stereotyping and Prejudice
  1. Power, prestige, class
  2. Stereotypes
  3. Stigma
    Anexos:
    - Labels and stigma
  4. Ethnocentrism
Content Category 8C: Social interactions
1. Elements of Social Interaction
  1. Role
  2. Groups
  3. Networks
  4. Organizations
    1. Bureaucracy
2. Self-presentation and Interacting with Others
  1. Presentation of Self/ dramaturgical perspective
  2. Expressing and detecting emotion
    1. Gender
    2. Culture
3. Social Behavior
  1. Social Support
  2. Altruism
    Anexos:
    - Altruism and morality
4. Discrimination
  1. Institutional
  2. Individual
  3. Prejudice
Content Category 9A: Understanding social structure
1. Theoretical Approaches
  1. Microsociology vs. macrosociology
  2. Functionalism
  3. Conflict theory
  4. Symbolic interactionism
  5. Social constructionism
  6. Feminist theory
    Anexos:
    - Feminist Theory
  7. Exchange-rational choice
    Anexos:
    - Social Exchange Theory - Formation
2. Social Institutions
  1. Education
    Anexos:
    - Roles of Education
  2. Family
    Anexos:
    - Sociology- Family and Households Flashcards
    - Families and Households
  3. Religion
    Anexos:
    - Factors Affecting Religiosity
  4. Government and economy
  5. Health and medicine
  6. Criminal justice and law
3. Culture
  1. beliefs, language, rituals, symbols, values
  2. Multiculturalism and assimilation
    Anexos:
    - 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
Content Category 9B: Demographic characteristics and processes
1. Demographic structure
  1. Age
    1. cohorts
    2. Social Significance
    3. Life course
      Anexos:
      - Postmodernity and the life course
  2. Gender
    1. Sex and Gender
    2. Social Construction
  3. Race and Ethnicity
    1. Social construction
      Anexos:
      - Social constructionism
    2. Racial Formation
  4. Sexual orientation
  5. Immigration Status
2. Demographic shifts and social change
  1. Theories of Demographic Change
    Anexos:
    - Population, Sustainability & Malthus
  2. Fertility. Migration, Mortality
  3. Social Movements
  4. Globalization
  5. Urbanization
Content Category 10A: Social inequality
1. Spatial inequality
2. Social Class
  1. Social Stratification
    Anexos:
    - Sociology- social stratification
  2. Social Mobility
    Anexos:
    - SOCIAL MOBILITY
3. Health disparities
4. Healthcare disparities
  Anexos:
  - Lecture 16 - Health Inequalities

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