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SOCIOLOGY FOR THE CARIBBEAN SOCI 1002COURSE REVIEW BY Mikol Mortley

1. INTRODUCTION Sociology

o Importanceo Necessityo Contributions o Industrial Societyo The dark ages

Founder Fathers of Sociologyo Auguste Comte o Emile Durkheim

Positivism Social Institution Social Structure Socialization

o Informalo Formal o Primaryo Secondaryo Tertiary

Society Social structure Social Institutions

2. BASIC SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS Aggregate Groups

o Social groupso Group characteristicso Primary groupso Secondary groupso Reference groupso In-groupso Out-groups

Cultureo Low cultureo High cultureo Sub cultureo Popular cultureo Counter culture o Sub-altern cultureo Characteristics of Culture

Status

o Ascribed statuso Achieved status

Roles

3. SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Self

o Looking Glass Self …. C.H. Cooley

o I and Me … G.H. Mead Self-Concept

o Development of selfo Stages of development :

I. Play stageII. Game stage

o Generalized other Sociological Imagination…C. Wright

Millso Historical sensibilityo Anthropological sensibilityo Critical sensibility

Functionalism o Durkheim’s structural

functionalismo Social Factso Social ordero Social Changeo Solidarity (Integration):

I. Organic SolidarityII. Mechanical

Solidarityo Function Prerequisites

(AGIL) o Pattern variables A& Bo Dysfunctiono Manifestation and latency

Marxist Conflict Theoryo Dialectical Materialismo Historical Materialismo Economic Determinism

Class consciousnesso Class in yourselfo Class for yourself

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Weberian Social Actiono Traditional actiono Affective action o Value oriented rationality o Absolute rationality

4. CARIBBEAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE Acculturation Inter-culturation Assimilation Cultural change African Retention…Herskovits Creole Culture Aspects of Caribbean Culture

o Musico Danceo Fashiono Art

Cultural erasure Globalized Culture

5. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION Definition Caribbean social stratification Types of stratification

6. MODELS OF THE CARIBBEAN SOCIETY Plantation society …MG smith, George

Beckford, Best Plural society Creole society…E.K. Braithwaite Class society

7. FAMILY AND GENDER Family

o Definitions : McKenzie .1993, Macionis and Plummer

o Functions of the familyI. Procreation of children

II. SocializationIII. Economic provision

Afro-Caribbean Family types :I. Nuclear

II. Common lawIII. Visiting unionIV. ExtendedV. Grand-mother headed

VI. Sibling VII. Sole parent

Life cycle of the afro-Caribbean family Contemporary changes Matrifocality Gender in the Afro-Caribbean Family

o Roles of males and females Caribbean Family Theories

o Herskovitso Edith Clarke, R.T Smith, M.G.

Smitho Hyman Rodman, Greenfield,

Barrowo R.T Smitho Functionalist perspective:

I. MurdockII. Parsons

o Marxist Perspective on Familyo Engel’s historical view of Familyo Kinship Patterns