Part I: Quotation Identification (30 points total) Each of t…
Part I: Quotation Identification (30 points total) Each of the following questions lists two quotations from your readings. For each question, choose one quotation and identify the theorist (or theorists) who wrote it (2 points), and explain in about 2–3 sentences in your own words what the author is trying to say (3 points). Please note that, if you respond to more than one quotation in a question, only the first response will be graded. Allow about 30 minutes for this part of your exam.
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Option A: “The individual experiences himself as such, not directly, but only indirectly, from the particular standpoints of other individual members of the same social group, or from the generalized standpoint of the social group as a whole to which he belongs.” Option B: “For if the individual’s activity is to become significant to others, he must mobilize his activity so that it will express during the interaction what he wishes to convey.”
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Option A: “Society is a human product. Society is an objective reality. Man is a social product.” Option B: “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro… two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
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EXAM INSTRUCTIONS: This is a three-part exam. You will complete Part I (quotation identification) and Part II (key concepts) here. You have 180 minutes to complete this portion of the exam. You may access Part III of this exam (the essay questions) at any time this week from the separate assignment titled Final Exam: Essay Questions.
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Option A: “The aim of an alternative sociology would be to explore and unfold the relations beyond our direct experience that shape and determine it….An alternative sociology, from the standpoint of women, makes the everyday world its problematic.” Option B: “Because U.S. Black women have access to the experiences that accrue to being both Black and female, an alternative epistemology used to rearticulate a Black women’s standpoint should reflect the convergence of both sets of experiences. Race and gender may be analytically distinct, but in Black women’s everyday lives, they work together.”
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