Chapter 2
Why begin a historical consideration of explanations of deviance with a demonic explanation in today’s secular world?
What is the demonic perspective? What are the two roads to demonic deviance?
What are cosmic consequences?
What do you make of the “tests of guilt” in demonic deviance? Do we continue any of these today? What forms of bodily assault do we utilize today to prove a person worthy?
What five types of evidence were utilized in the salem witch trials? What do you make of spectral evidence?
What was the Lateran Council of 1215? What important transformations is the view of deviance came form the Council?
How was the investigation of and punishment of demonic deviance illustrative of the assertion that control of deviance is control of society? Were the acts of enforcement about controlling the accused or controlling to onlookers or both?
Explain the importance of symbolism in controlling demonic deviance.
What is an acephalous group and how is deviance managed in one?
How was outlawry related to community control of deviance?
Explain the phallocentric/ heterosexist/ patriarchal consequences of demonic deviance for women.
“After acephalous society, control of deviance is preservation of power.” explain.
Lilith Fair? Explain the symbolism.
Your examples of conservative and progressive uses of demonic deviance today?
The role of demonic deviance in the debate over gay marriage. Policy based on demonic deviance or science?
Wayward Puritans?
What can the demonic perspective teach us about the modern world?
10.9.07
Theory Review Set 2
IDST Ch 2 Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Explain how Vico is a transitional figure between medieval thinking and modern thinking.
What is meant by “seeking laws” of society?
What is an “ideal-type”? How does the discovery of type lead to the ability to discern the forces that lead to such a type?
Montesquieu claimed that sociocultural variables determine forms of government, laws, and other institutions. Explain.
What is the source of human freedom for Montesquieu?
What is the nature of human nature according to Montesquieu?
What did Montesquieu mean by “spirit”?
What was Montesquieu’s contribution to what later would be know as the sociology of knowledge?
Explain Montesquieu’s classification of societies and his conception of laws?
IDST Ch 3 Rousseau (1712-1778)
Explain Rousseau’s notion of man in a state of nature?
Explain the difference between Rousseau’s state of nature and Hobbes’ notion of natural man depicted in his Leviathan?
What is the source of The State and War according to Rousseau?
What is the “general will”? How does Rousseau’s social contract differ from Hobbes’?
How is Rousseau’s contribution seen as a forerunner of sociology?
Explain how Vico is a transitional figure between medieval thinking and modern thinking.
What is meant by “seeking laws” of society?
What is an “ideal-type”? How does the discovery of type lead to the ability to discern the forces that lead to such a type?
Montesquieu claimed that sociocultural variables determine forms of government, laws, and other institutions. Explain.
What is the source of human freedom for Montesquieu?
What is the nature of human nature according to Montesquieu?
What did Montesquieu mean by “spirit”?
What was Montesquieu’s contribution to what later would be know as the sociology of knowledge?
Explain Montesquieu’s classification of societies and his conception of laws?
IDST Ch 3 Rousseau (1712-1778)
Explain Rousseau’s notion of man in a state of nature?
Explain the difference between Rousseau’s state of nature and Hobbes’ notion of natural man depicted in his Leviathan?
What is the source of The State and War according to Rousseau?
What is the “general will”? How does Rousseau’s social contract differ from Hobbes’?
How is Rousseau’s contribution seen as a forerunner of sociology?
Deviance Review Set 2.0 1984 Book 1
Book One, Chapters 1-2
What bothers Winston? What is wrong with his society?
What are the three slogans of the Inner Party?
What are the four ministries? What items are written in italics?
How does the Two Minute Hate work? What happens to Winston during the chant?
During the film (p. 11), how did the audience react?
What is "thoughtcrime"? What are the Thought Police?
Who are the Parsons and what do they represent?
How do the Parsons’ children behave? What is Winston's dream about O’Brien?
What is announced on the news? (p. 25)
Book One, Chapters 3-4
What is Winston’s dream about his mother? How does he feel about himself in that dream?
What is his dream about the "Golden Country"?
What does he remember about the big events of the past? Bombs? Past Wars?
Explain the Party slogan, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
What does he know about the legends concerning Big Brother?
Describe Winston’s job. How is the past controlled?
What special literature, music, and entertainment is produced for the proletariat (proles)?
How does Winston feel about his work? What sort of "creativity" is involved?
What is the significance of Comrade Ogilvy?
Book One, Chapters 5-7
What is the problem with obtaining razor blades?
What is revealed about Inner Party philosophy in the discussion between Winston and Syme?
Why does Winston feel that Syme will be vaporized?
Parsons brags about his children for doing what?
What is the significance of the telescreen announcement? (p. 51)
What are Winston’s feelings about the present time after he hears the cheerful announcement on the telescreen?
Winston predicts that certain people will be vaporized and that certain people will never be vaporized. Who? Why?
What is the purpose of marriage in the state?
What do Winston’s memories about visiting a prostitute reveal about his attitudes towards sex in Oceania?
How does Winston view the proles? How are the proles controlled (prole control)?
What lies/half-truths does the Party teach about history?
Winston suspects that the Party lies about progress made since the war. What Party claims does he doubt?
What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford? Why is this story so meaningful for Winston?
What is Winston’s unanswered question?
Book One, Chapter 8
Why does Winston go off on his own? What activities is he missing out on?
What is life like in the proles’ end of London?
What does Winston think about after his conversation with the old man in the pub?
What does Winston discover at Mr. Charrington’s shop? What is Mr. Charrington like?
What does Winston think when he sees the dark-haired girl outside Mr. Charrington’s shop?
How does one’s own body betray a person?
Why does Winston wonder about church bells ringing in London?
What are the three slogans of the Inner Party?
What are the four ministries? What items are written in italics?
How does the Two Minute Hate work? What happens to Winston during the chant?
During the film (p. 11), how did the audience react?
What is "thoughtcrime"? What are the Thought Police?
Who are the Parsons and what do they represent?
How do the Parsons’ children behave? What is Winston's dream about O’Brien?
What is announced on the news? (p. 25)
Book One, Chapters 3-4
What is Winston’s dream about his mother? How does he feel about himself in that dream?
What is his dream about the "Golden Country"?
What does he remember about the big events of the past? Bombs? Past Wars?
Explain the Party slogan, "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."
What does he know about the legends concerning Big Brother?
Describe Winston’s job. How is the past controlled?
What special literature, music, and entertainment is produced for the proletariat (proles)?
How does Winston feel about his work? What sort of "creativity" is involved?
What is the significance of Comrade Ogilvy?
Book One, Chapters 5-7
What is the problem with obtaining razor blades?
What is revealed about Inner Party philosophy in the discussion between Winston and Syme?
Why does Winston feel that Syme will be vaporized?
Parsons brags about his children for doing what?
What is the significance of the telescreen announcement? (p. 51)
What are Winston’s feelings about the present time after he hears the cheerful announcement on the telescreen?
Winston predicts that certain people will be vaporized and that certain people will never be vaporized. Who? Why?
What is the purpose of marriage in the state?
What do Winston’s memories about visiting a prostitute reveal about his attitudes towards sex in Oceania?
How does Winston view the proles? How are the proles controlled (prole control)?
What lies/half-truths does the Party teach about history?
Winston suspects that the Party lies about progress made since the war. What Party claims does he doubt?
What is the story of Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford? Why is this story so meaningful for Winston?
What is Winston’s unanswered question?
Book One, Chapter 8
Why does Winston go off on his own? What activities is he missing out on?
What is life like in the proles’ end of London?
What does Winston think about after his conversation with the old man in the pub?
What does Winston discover at Mr. Charrington’s shop? What is Mr. Charrington like?
What does Winston think when he sees the dark-haired girl outside Mr. Charrington’s shop?
How does one’s own body betray a person?
Why does Winston wonder about church bells ringing in London?
Theory Review Set 1
What social forces lead to the Enlightenment? What is the significance of the Enlightenment to Social Theory?
Who were the Philosophs? What was their contribution to both the Enlightenment and to the birth of social theory?
How does truth vary in meaning from the 17th to 18th century? And what does Newton have to do with this it?
What does it mean to talk of the mind as a tabula rasa? Why was this idea radical?
Reason + observation & experimentation --> true knowledge...why is each alone insufficient?
What is meant by “negative” philosophies?
What three distinct blows did the French Revolution deliver to society history and politics?
How did Hegel’s actions lead to the development of an autonomous social theory (from philosophy)?
What role did industrial capitalism, mechanical innovation, and the development of the working class play in the development of social theory?
What does it mean to conceive of society as a set of structured fields external to the self? Why do you think this was such a radical thought on its time?
Who were the Philosophs? What was their contribution to both the Enlightenment and to the birth of social theory?
How does truth vary in meaning from the 17th to 18th century? And what does Newton have to do with this it?
What does it mean to talk of the mind as a tabula rasa? Why was this idea radical?
Reason + observation & experimentation --> true knowledge...why is each alone insufficient?
What is meant by “negative” philosophies?
What three distinct blows did the French Revolution deliver to society history and politics?
How did Hegel’s actions lead to the development of an autonomous social theory (from philosophy)?
What role did industrial capitalism, mechanical innovation, and the development of the working class play in the development of social theory?
What does it mean to conceive of society as a set of structured fields external to the self? Why do you think this was such a radical thought on its time?
Deviance Review Set 1 pp 401-417
Explain how the vignette related by Pfohl about the reporter’s question illustrates the way sociological thinking is different than normal every-day attempts to explain human social behaviour. This is what C.Wright Mills called the sociological imagination. Explain.
What are the theoretical and practical roots of the critical perspectives in sociology? Why do these roots demand critical self reflectivity? Explain
Why are power and knowledge inherently linked for Marxist theorists?
What do we mean when we say power in the context of this text and this course? Based on what you have read thus far, can you take an educated guess at what we might mean if we said “Structural Violence”? Explain.
How is knowledge linked to power? How can it both amplify and subvert power? Explain.
What are the cognitive, moral, and bodily knowledges? What do they have to do with our exploration of deviance?
Explain the following concepts as they are used in understanding deviance: Historical Materiality Symbolic Social Controls Hegemonic Ritual Interactions
What are the theoretical and practical roots of the critical perspectives in sociology? Why do these roots demand critical self reflectivity? Explain
Why are power and knowledge inherently linked for Marxist theorists?
What do we mean when we say power in the context of this text and this course? Based on what you have read thus far, can you take an educated guess at what we might mean if we said “Structural Violence”? Explain.
How is knowledge linked to power? How can it both amplify and subvert power? Explain.
What are the cognitive, moral, and bodily knowledges? What do they have to do with our exploration of deviance?
Explain the following concepts as they are used in understanding deviance: Historical Materiality Symbolic Social Controls Hegemonic Ritual Interactions
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