This Pass or Prepared? is based on a number of Sociology Websites and texts. These are the books and theories jeanne thinks you ought to be able to talk about intelligently if you present yourself to the world as a sociologist. You'll find individual Pass? or Prepared?s on most of this material, but this will give you an overview. Try it is a Pre-Test. Then try it again as a Post-Test when the semester is over. See how much you've grown as a sociologist through the semester.

Jeanne is using James Farganis' Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism, McGraw-Hill, 2000, ISBN: 0-07-230060-4 as a review text.

Click on any question number to see jeanne's answer to that question.

1. What is theory? In terms of assumptions, evidence, and discipline-wide issues?

2. What are some of the major issues facing sociologists today?

3. Where does sociology stand in 2000 with respect to race, class, and gender?

4. Situate sociology within the social and political context of U.S. history in the past century. And give a parallel sense of the development of psychology. (testing and psychoanalysis)

5. How much do I have to know to be "literate" in sociology in the world out there?

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