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Soc 169: Study Guide for Exam #2

Exam #2: Thurs, 12/6 in class

Review for exam: Tues, 12/4

Format: multiple choice (no essay)

What to bring: #2 pencils and a thin green scantron

What it covers: Weeks 6-10

Be sure to review the concepts & ideas on these handouts:

(1) Pierre Bourdieu

(2) post-structuralism & postmodern theories;

(3) meanings of ‘queer’;

(4) Mead & Goffman’s early works (Interaction Ritual & The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life);

(5) Goffman’s later works (Stigma & Asylums);

Also be familiar with the following:

Multiracial feminist theory, liberal feminist theory, radical feminist theory: main ideas of each type of theory & differences; be able to identify feminist thinkers associated with each type of theory

Betty Friedan: the ‘problem that has no name’; goals that she promoted through NOW

Susan Brownmiller: main arguments regarding rape and its social impacts

Patricia Hill Collins: matrix of domination; race, class, gender as relatively autonomous but intersecting (or inter-locking) relations of domination, 3 levels of domination and resistance (individual, cultural, institutional); applications to black women’s experiences; controlling images

Gloria Anzaldua: ‘othering’; her contradictory responses to her Mexican-American culture based on her multiple identities

Mitsuye Yamada: why she cannot separate her feminism from her ethnicity; relationship between racism & imperialism; stereotypes of Asian-American women; critiques of white feminists & feminist organizations

Esther Ngan-Ling Chow: gender consciousness & feminist consciousness (definitions & how they are related); barriers to Asian-American women’s gender & feminist consciousness; forms of organizing among Asian-American feminists

Pierre Bourdieu: be familiar with the concepts & ideas on the handout on Bourdieu

Post-structuralism: Differences from structuralist theories and Cartesian rationality (foundationalism); Postmodernist theories (2 types); differences from modernist theories

Be familiar with ideas & concepts on the ‘post-structuralism & post-modernism’ handout

Jean Baudrillard: simulations; simulcrum; hyper-reality; 4 historical periods

Michel Foucault: how he understands power and its relationship to pleasure, knowledge, & discourse

--how the penal system has changed over time; Panopticon; “disciplinary society”: hierarchical observations, examinations, and normalizing judgments

-- the “repressive hypothesis” & his critique of it; how did discourses about sexuality change over time (pre-Victorian & post-Victorian era); dominant discourses & “reverse” discourses & resistance; multiple agents of sexual control (examples); origins of homosexual identity;

Queer theories: definition; associations w/ the term “queer”; main ideas; post-structuralist influences (Foucault, Derrida)

Steven Seidman: Early gay and lesbian feminist intellectuals’ ideas about sexual liberation (the 3 types developed in the late 1960s & early 1970s); Social constructionist & essentialist theories of sexual identity & how they relate to queer theory; Queer theorists’ critique of the heterosexual-homosexual binary & male-female binary & its relation to Derrida’s ideas

George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer & Erving Goffman: see 2 handouts that cover Mead & Blumer; Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life; Goffman’s later works (Asylums & Stigma)