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Rural Sociology 1500 - Exam #1 Review

Exam will be on Thursday, February 11

Lectures from January 12 through February 9; Chapters 1-4, Information on Rural Society covered in class; any readings posted on Carmen; main concepts from films shown in class

Terminology:

Anticipatory socialization

Conflict/competition theory

Content analysis

Culture (what it is, elements of)

Counterculture

Cultural lag

Cultural relativism

Cultural universal

Culture shock

Diffusion

Dominant ideology

Ecological fallacy

Ethnocentrism

Folkways

Framing

Functionalism

Generalized others

Hawthorne effect

Hypothesis

I and Me

Language

Material culture

Micro vs. macro levels

Migration

Mores

Non-material culture

Norms (formal and informal)

Peer review

Qualitative and quantitative research

Push-pull factors

Reliability

Research design

Resocialization

Rural-urban turnaround

Sanctions

Secondary data

Significant others

Social construct

Social interaction

Socialization

Society

Sociological imagination

Subculture

Symbol

Symbolic interaction

Theory

Triangle and the hourglass

Validity

Variable (independent and dependent)

Values

Vested interest

Concepts:

3 functions of community

2 definitions of rural

3 approaches to studying rural communities, populations, or cultures

4 types of metro/non-metro counties (central city metropolitan, metropolitan suburban, micropolitan, non-core); how they are defined

Breakdown of counties in U.S. (how many are metropolitan, nonmetropolitan, micropolitan, non-core)

Percentage of population classified as rural or nonmetropolitan in the U.S.

Why it’s important to study and be concerned about rural areas (rural-urban linkages)

What is meant by the rural-urban turnaround?

3 sociological theories/perspectives of society; know main points, critiques, main people associated with each, applications (see chart on Carmen)

Differences between quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research

Steps in the research process

Ways to collect data

Identify independent and dependent variables in a research study

Difference between causality and correlation. Is it easy to prove causality?

Qualities of good research

Elements of culture

Sociological and psychological theories of socialization (Cooley, Mead, Goffman, Piaget, Bronfenbrenner)

Agents/sources of socialization

Examples of rites of passage across the life span

Other:

Review the pop quiz at the end of each chapter

Review readings on rural America and cultural lag posted on Carmen

Review 3 videos on material culture in American households https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmUyTauQBQ4

How Mean Girls film relates to culture and socialization (will watch on Tuesday)

Note: Terms in the chapters not covered in class will not be on the exam nor will “Today in History” facts and dates.

Historical dates related to the development of rural America will not be on the exam.