These are terms that you should be able to recognize, and, if you're going on in Sociology, eventually recall a simple and concise definition. Or names you should recognize and have some idea about their contributions to Sociology. Or basic concepts of theories specific to criminology or criminal justice or juvenile justice, or law or social justice, or peacemaking.

• affirmative action arguments
  . . . Horowitz's ten points right perspective
  This was posted on PSN, under student protests at Brown, but I couldn't find it this morning. jeanne . . . Protests at Brown University left perspective
• positivism
• justice, Rawls' theory of
• verstehen see first few paragraphs.
• . . . verstehen as compared to empiricsim, see first few paragraphs.

  To go up soon:

• Goffman, Erving. Presentation of self in everyday Life. front stage, back stage, social relationships as roles in a play. Useful for teaching appropriateness to children.
• Giddens, Anthony. structuration theory, and Beyond Left and Right - relate to Fellman.
• Marx, commodification, means of production, class
• Weber, bureaucracy, protestant ethic
• Durkheim, social fact, anomic suicide
• grounded theory
• hermeneutics
• alterity
• hergemony

Will this do for starters? . I think it might make a good short answer exam if we allowed you to choose ten terms that were really important to you and then just give me a brief oral summary of what those terms mean to you. And to be sure that those concepts and names most important to you get onto the Trivia Index, you should actively contribute to the index. How does that sound? jeanne, Wednesday morning, April 18, 2001