Creating Study Guide for Mid-Term Exam

OVERVIEW

The process of preparing for study guides is beneficial to student learning. For this assignment, you are asked to create a study guide (no page limit) for each of your two exams throughout the semester. The study guide will comprise 5% of the total grade of that exam. For example, if you got 80 in the exam and 100 in this study guide, your final grade for the exam will be 80´95%+100´5%=81.

DUE DATE

During the mid-term exam (10/14-10/16 8am).

REQUIREMENTS FOR CREATING STUDY GUIDE

Here is a list of abilities you need to gain for the mid-term exam. Your study guide should include all information you could gather—from pre-class readings including textbook chapter 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, and 7, lectures, slides for class, as well as all pre-class activities—to help you achieve these goals. Make sure you include all the information you need to prepare for the exam. Remember the more details you have considered, the more likely you will succeed in the exam.

  • For a given example, be able to identify which of the three major sociological theories (structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionalism) fits the example.
  • For a social phenomenon and its different functions, be able to identify the manifest function, latent function and dysfunction.
  • For a piece of research, be able to identify which aspect of scientific method (reliability, validity, generalizability) it reflects.
  • For a statement, be able to identify whether it is a sociological research question, a hypothesis, or an operational definition.
  • For a certain hypothesis, be able to identify the independent and dependent variable in it.
  • For several related statements of a certain variable, be able to identify which one is its possible operational definition.
  • For a sociological research practice, be able to identify which ethic issue (informed consent, privacy, value neutrality, conflict interest) it reflects.
  • For a piece of research, be able to identify the funding organization that may cause conflict interest.
  • For a piece of research, be able to identify which research method it uses (survey, interview, field research, secondary data analysis, experiment).
  • For a description of an individual’s experience, be able to figure out what fits the concepts “ascribed status,” “achieved status,” “role performance,” “role conflict” and “role strain.”
  • For a given example, be able to identify whether it is an example of socialization that is different from psychological development.
  • For a given example of socialization, be able to identify which stage of social development (including preparatory, play, game, and generalized other) the example fits according to George Herbert Mead’s theory.
  • For a given example, be able to identify whether it is about resocialization or anticipatory socialization.
  • For a given example with several agents of socialization mentioned, be able to identify the different functions and significance of different agents.
  • For a given example of sanction, be able to identify whether it is a positive informal sanction, negative informal sanction, positive formal sanction, or negative formal sanction.
  • For a given example of crime, be able to identify whether it is a street crime, corporate crime, violent crime or victimless crime.
  • For a given example of deviance, be able to identify whether it is about primary deviance or secondary deviance.
  • For a given example of deviance, be able to identify whether it fits strain theory, differential association theory or labeling theory.
  • Be able to match an example with ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, cultural universal or cultural shock.
  • For a given example, be able to identify whether it is material culture or non-material culture.
  • For a given example, be able to identify whether it is considered as a subculture or a counterculture.
  • For a given example, be able to identify whether it is considered as high culture or popular culture.

*Please contact the instructor immediately if you have any problems in doing this.