SOC 1- LA Mission College
Final Exam Study Guide
The following items are terms, theories, or concepts that you will need to know for
the final exam:
Chapter 8- Social Class & Inequalities
Social Stratification
Social Class
Apartheid
Intragenerational Mobility
Intergenerational Mobility
Cultural Capital
Absolute Poverty
Relative Deprivation
Chapter 10 –Race & Ethnicity
Race vs. Ethnicity
Symbolic Ethnicity
Minority Group
Racism
Prejudice vs. Discrimination
Pluralism vs. Assimilation
Cultural vs. Racial Assimilation
Chapters 14/ 15-Education & Religion
Education
The Pygmalion Effect
Kozol’s Savage Inequalities
Charter Schools
Religion (sacred and profane)
Religiosity
Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Religiosity
Fundamentalists
Chapter 13 –The Family
Family Definition:
US Census vs. Sociology
Endogamy vs. Exogamy
Structural Functionalist View
Propinquity
Expressive vs. Instrumental Tasks
Cohabitation
Chapter 18 -Health
Chronic vs. Acute Diseases
Curative vs. Preventative Medicine
Medicalization
Epidemic vs. Pandemic
Epidemiology
Food Desert
The Sick Role
Palliative Care
Chapter 20 –Social Change
Social Change
Collective Behavior
Contagion Theory
Riots
Mass Behavior
Technological Determinism
Cultural Lag vs. Cultural Diffusion