SOC 110 - Essay - 1000 words

1. The issues of individual choice, control, and freedom

2. Sociology’s purpose in exposing trivial issues of social life

3. Personal issues versus public problems

4. Social facts

5. Case study of teenage pregnancy and poverty

6. Structure versus agency

7. Free will

8. Study of unequal childhoods by Annette Lareau

9. Study of teenage pregnancy by Kristin Luker

10. The marketization of time

11. The Industrial Revolution and Sociology

12. Family economy versus family wage economy

13. Non-producing owners versus non-owning producers

14. Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber

15. Social conflict theory, structural functionalism theory, and symbolic interactionism theory

16. Historical materialism

17. Alienation

18. Social valuation of worth

19. Study of upper class men in France and the United States by Michele Lamont

20. Four different kinds of research

21. Descriptive research

22. Explanatory research

23. Emancipatory research

24. Non-emancipatory research

25. Surveys

26. Ethnography

27. Interviews

28. Experiments

29. American Couples (study)

30. The Second Shift (study)

31. The Transcendent Child (study)

32. Marked (study)

33. Operationalization of concepts

34. Validity

35. Reliability

36. Universe

37. Samples

38. Systematic sampling

39. Random sampling

40. Stratified sampling

41. Snow-ball sampling

42. Crisis of the self

43. Emotional labor

44. The Managed Heart (study)

45. Surface acting versus deep acting

46. Mobility and status trends

47. Institutional discrimination

48. Interpersonal discrimination

49. Comparable worth

50. Reproduction of labor power