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Rural Sociology 1500 - Exam #2 Review

Thursday, March 10

Lectures from February 16 through March 8 (since last exam)

From Witt Book: Chapter 5 (social structure and interaction); Chapter 6 (social control, crime, and deviance); Chapter 7 (families)

Terminology (know the definitions, examples, and how they are different from related terms):

Conformity

Crime

Crime triangle

Deviance

Differential justice

Family and household (Census definitions)

Family types (nuclear, extended, blended, single parent, polygamous)

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Groups (In and out groups, primary and secondary groups, reference)

Kinship and created kinship

Law

Mechanical solidarity

Organic solidarity

Obedience

Roles (role conflict, role strain, role exit)

Selective arrest

Social control (formal and informal)

Social interaction

Social institutions

Social networks

Social structure

Social stigma

Solidarity (organic and mechanical)

Subculture

Status (Achieved, ascribed, master)

FBI Uniform Crime Report

Concepts:

Different models/types of societies (according to Toennies, Lenski, and Durkheim) – what are characteristics of each?

Deviance vs. crime

Obedience vs. conformity

Urban vs. rural crime rates – what types of crimes are higher and where

Trends in crime rates

5 theories of why deviance and crime occur – Durkheim and Merton’s theories, cultural transmission, social disorganization, labelling

Structural vs. functional definitions of the family

Patterns of descent (patrilineal, matrilineal, bilateral) – how kinship is traced

Patterns of decision-making power in societies and families (patriarchy, matriarchy, egalitarian families)

Functions of the family

Current trends in family life (age of first marriage, childbearing increasing or decreasing, cohabitation, diversity of families, having children outside of marriage) Note: you do not need to know statistics, just trends

Who are the Saints and Roughnecks?

Review guest lecture on rural crime/Amish/subculture; Why are the Amish a subculture? What are some distinctive characteristics of the Amish (review guest lecture slides posted on Carmen)

What are some possible explanations for rural crime?

Review Obedience film/Milgram experiments