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A complete introductory sociology course, built from the 21 chapters of OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e plus standard introductory terminology. It opens with the sociological imagination, the founders (Comte, Marx, Durkheim, Weber) and the three big perspectives: structural functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism. Then it covers research methods, culture, society and social interaction, socialization, groups and organizations, and deviance, crime and social control. The middle of the course is inequality: media and technology, stratification in the United States, global inequality, race and ethnicity, and gender, sex and sexuality. The last units cover aging, marriage and family, religion, education, government, work and the economy, health and medicine, population and the environment, and social movements and social change. Each chapter starts with a short notes card and then mixes recall, multiple choice, cloze, true or false, and a few sequence and explain cards. Theories are attributed to the theorists who hold them, and US statistics are dated or kept to stable concepts. The cards are text only, with no diagrams.
Copied straight from the course. In the app, each wrong option also gets its own explanation.
Card 1A three-year-old talks into a toy phone, pretending to be their mother. Which stage in Mead's theory is this?
Play stage. In the play stage a child takes the role of one significant other at a time, such as a parent.
Card 2In Merton's strain theory, what determines whether people conform or turn to deviance?
Whether they can reach accepted goals legitimately. Strain arises when a culture sets goals such as financial success but blocks legitimate access to the means.
Card 3A student attends college to earn a degree but ends up meeting a future spouse. Meeting the spouse is an example of a:
Latent function. Latent functions are unsought consequences and can be helpful, neutral or harmful.
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OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 3e (all 21 chapters, CC BY-NC-SA) plus standard introductory terminology. The cards are rewritten, not copied.
Sociological theory and research, culture, socialization, groups, deviance and crime, media, stratification, global inequality, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, aging, family, religion, education, government, work, health, population and the environment, and social change.
Cards use stable concepts or give the year of the figure, so a poverty or wage-gap number does not quietly go out of date. Where the textbook is dated, the card follows current evidence.
No. Cards are text only, so charts, maps and population pyramids are described in words.