SOCI1001: Introduction to Sociology
Final exam review session
Date: November 29, 2023
Instructor: Dr. HAN, Sinn Won
Prejudice, discrimination, and the new racism
● Color-blindness: the New Racism
● Old kind of obvious racism has declined
● New kind of racism, especially “color-blind racism”, gains its ground
● Color-blind racism is a form of racism in which an individual claims to ignore others’ skin color
completely, and therefore, believes they are treating all racial groups equally
● However, color-blindness often perpetuates discriminatory practices by allowing people to
ignore historical contexts and structural circumstances that cause racial inequalities
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Final exam (40%)
● Date & Time: December 18, 2:30 ~ 4:30 PM (Monday)
● Exam venue: Loke Yew Hall & Main Building Rm 103
● Exam structure: 50 MCQs (each Q worths 2 pts = 100)
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● Office hours: December 13, 12:00 ~ 2:00 PM (Wednesday)
● Just walk into my office (Rm. 9.21, The Jockey Club Tower); no arrangement needed
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We have learnt
Part 1: Sociological perspective and sociological imagination
Part 2: The development of sociological thinking
Part 3: Sociological research methods
Part 4: Fundamental sociological concepts: Culture and structure
Part 5: Assorted substantive topics in sociology
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Part 1
• Seeing and thinking like a sociologist
1. The sociological imagination
• We should go beyond the individual-oriented perspective!
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• Reading: Mills (1959) “The promise.” Chapter 1 of The Sociological Imagination
2. Peter Berger’s sociological perspective (Berger 1963)
• Sociology as a “value-free” (objective) social science
• Sociology as a “debunking” (unmasking) social science
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Part 2
• The development of sociological thinking
1. Classical sociological theory
• Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim
2. Modern sociological theoretical approaches
• Functionalism / Conflict theory / Feminist theory / Symbolic interactionism /
Postmodernism / Midrange theory
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Part 3
• Sociological research methods
• What is the scientific method?
• Hypothesis and variables
• Variable relationships (correlation vs. causality)
• Choosing your method: Quantitative & qualitative approaches
• Ethics of social research
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Part 4
• Culture & Structure as two fundamental sociological concepts
1. Culture
● What is culture?
● Media, culture, and society
● Socialization
2. Structure: Networks, groups, and organizations
● Sociology of social networks, key concepts of social network analysis, organizations
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Part 5
• Assorted substantive topics in sociology
1. Social inequality and stratification
● Inequality and stratification: How different are they
● Different forms of social stratification
● Global inequality and stratification: Two theories of global inequality
2. Family
● The historical divide between public and private spheres
● Women’s growing labor market participation and the “second shift” problem 9
Part 5 (cont.)
• Assorted substantive topics in sociology
3. Gender
● Seeing sex and gender as social
● Theories of gender inequality: Feminism / Sex role theory / Conflict theory / “Doing
gender” / Intersectionality theory
● Gender stratification: Why/how does gender inequality at work exist?
4. Race
● Seeing race as social
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See you next week!
Slides templates:
Ma, G. Y. K., Choi, C., & Yeung, P. P. S. (2023) PowerPoint template.
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