SOC101 Exam 3 Review Guide PDF

SOC101 **Exam 3 Review Guide** **The exam is 40 multiple choice and 5 (very)short essay questions (3-5 sentence answers).** Step 1. Review your notes on the readings and lectures. You should review your notes on the first two exams for questions/topics that you missed that you missed the first ti...

SOC101 **Exam 3 Review Guide** **The exam is 40 multiple choice and 5 (very)short essay questions (3-5 sentence answers).** Step 1. Review your notes on the readings and lectures. You should review your notes on the first two exams for questions/topics that you missed that you missed the first time and/or we highlighted in class during review. For example, social structures and institutions, forms of authority, subordinated and marginalized masculinities, the definition of the upper class. About ten of the multiple choice and one or two of the short answer will draw on the topics from earlier in the course. Those review sheets can also help you. Where you will need to combine concepts from earlier in the course with current material is described below. Step 2. Review the chapter summaries Step 3. In addition to the above, be sure you can explain and describe the concepts below. **Power to the People** Social Change Collective Action (Transnational) Social Movement Interdependent Power- be able to multiple examples of the exercise of this type of power from civil rights, labor, or other social movements. What are the obstacles to effective use of interdependent power? (Transnational) Repertoires of contention- examples from US history and global climate movement, e.g. divestment social construction of social problems Insurgent consciousness- role of moral shocks collective action problem Organizational Strength political networks Framing Standing- examples of movement figures and how their standing supported particular frames Countermovements Counter frames framing wars- examples Opportunity Structures- be able to describe and give an example of each affecting a social movement Political Cultural Economic Critical events Interest convergence/elite division and its importance for social movement odds of success **Our Future on Earth** Which nations and groups have contributed to most to climate change and which are most vulnerable to impacts form it? how anthropogenic climate change is an example of institutionalized global racism how global warming increases the likelihood of epidemic and pandemic diseases Explain the partisan gap between Republicans and Democrats in relation to agreement with the scientific consensus on human driven climate change. Globally imagined community Moral entrepreneurs (world) Risk society **From "Inequality and the health-care system in the USA"**: How and why is the US exceptional among wealthy nations in terms of healthcare spending and average health outcomes? Be able to give specific examples of where our health outcomes diverge far from developed nation averages and trends, e.g. life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality, etc. How does the US high prevalence of private insurance and "cost sharing" by patients seeking medical care contribute to worse health outcomes for lower income Americans and more overall spending and care received by richer Americans. e.g. the regressive character of private insurance premiums, Medicare payouts, etc. Medicare vs Medicaid Examples of barriers to healthcare access in the US- uninsured, underinsured, physicians rejecting Medicaid patients, cost sharing, geography of facilities Examples of evidence inequality in quality of care received by the poor and those in rural communities- dangerous drugs, lower vaccinations, etc. How rising healthcare costs increase economic inequality Why is intersectionality important in understanding US healthcare system inequalities? **EDUCATION** Differences between US and Chinese educational systems in terms of cultural individualism vs. collectivism; attribution of success to ability/talent vs. effort, and intensity of pre-college and college/post college education explain differences in inequalities of educational outcomes. E.g. the role of tracking, forms of cultural capital. How does Lareau explain the way middle class parents interact with teachers and educational institutions in ways that emphasize individualized instruction while working class parents defer to and expect teachers to tell them how to support their children? Why does this cultural class difference in combination with our educational system reproduce social inequalities while deference to teachers in Finland, mentioned by parents in the class film, does not? How does US disproportionate spending on higher education and administration and lower investment in early childhood education and teachers contribute to lower average performance for US students compared with other developed nations? How are these lower than international average performances also linked to greater social inequality and poverty within the US? **Synthesis** Be able to apply Domhoff's concept of the policy planning process/network to examples from the text on the corporate climate countermovement and from class and the interview with Wendell Potter on the health care reform countermovement with reference to foundations, think tanks, policy-discussion organizations, and revolving interlocks. Be able to give examples of how this course has helped you exercise the sociological imagination in relation to a social problem of interest to you. Be able to define the sociological imagination and make reference specific sociological concepts that apply to the problem. How does the sociological imagination and the connection between personal troubles and social issues relate to the social construction of social problems?