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1. Mikol Mortley
University of the West Indies
SOCIOLOGY FOR THE CARIBBEAN SOCI 1002
COURSE REVIEW BY Mikol Mortley
1. INTRODUCTION
Sociology
o Importance
o Necessity
o Contributions
o Industrial Society
o The dark ages
Founder Fathers of Sociology
o Auguste Comte
o Emile Durkheim
Positivism
Social Institution
Social Structure
Socialization
o Informal
o Formal
o Primary
o Secondary
o Tertiary
Society
Social structure
Social Institutions
2. BASIC SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Aggregate
Groups
o Social groups
o Group characteristics
o Primary groups
o Secondary groups
o Reference groups
o In-groups
o Out-groups
Culture
o Low culture
o High culture
o Sub culture
o Popular culture
o Counter culture
o Sub-altern culture
o Characteristics of Culture
Status
o Ascribed status
o 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 self
o Stages of development :
I. Play stage
II. Game stage
o Generalized other
Sociological Imagination…C. Wright
Mills
o Historical sensibility
o Anthropological sensibility
o Critical sensibility
Functionalism
o Durkheim’s structural
functionalism
o Social Facts
o Social order
o Social Change
o Solidarity (Integration):
I. Organic Solidarity
II. Mechanical
Solidarity
o Function Prerequisites
(AGIL)
o Pattern variables A& B
o Dysfunction
o Manifestation and latency
Marxist Conflict Theory
o Dialectical Materialism
o Historical Materialism
o Economic Determinism
Class consciousness
o Class in yourself
o Class for yourself
Weberian Social Action

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University of the West Indies
o Traditional action
o 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 Music
o Dance
o Fashion
o 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 family
I. Procreation of children
II. Socialization
III. Economic provision
Afro-Caribbean Family types :
I. Nuclear
II. Common law
III. Visiting union
IV. Extended
V. 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 Herskovits
o Edith Clarke, R.T Smith, M.G.
Smith
o Hyman Rodman, Greenfield,
Barrow
o R.T Smith
o Functionalist perspective:
I. Murdock
II. Parsons
o Marxist Perspective on Family
o Engel’s historical view of Family
o Kinship Patterns