50-point
exam
Likely format:
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Multiple choice, true-false, and matching sections
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No essays
1.
On the abstract question of freedom be prepared to answer
questions concerning the competing visions of freedom—negative and
positive. How are liberalism and
conservatism in all their different forms different from socialism? What is Hayek’s position on equality and the
role of the state in securing it in The
Constitution of Liberty? What are
sources of inequality from his point of view?
What do Marx and Engels argue in the Communist Manifesto about
inequality, freedom, and democracy?
2.
What is the basic of thrust of Mark Colvin's book, Penitentiaries,
Reformatories, and Chain Gangs? How
are changes in punishment in the twentieth century connected to changes in the
nineteenth century? In other words, why
is history important? According to
Colvin, does crime explain punishment?
If not, what does?
3.
What did I say in class about the relationship
between crime and punishment? What are
the competing theories of crime? How do
these theories reflect political ideology?
What are reasons for doubting the relationship between crime and
punishment, as it has been traditionally understood? What is the difference between the UCR and
the NCVS? Why is this difference
significant.
4.
Which are the outstanding features of prison trends
in the
5. In the book, Discipline
and Punish, what does Michel Foucault claim changed between the executions
of would-be regicides Damiens and Fieschi?
Who proposed a circular prison where prisoners would be watched without
seeing the watcher, and believed that this arrangement would morally reform the
offender by strengthening their conscience?
6.
What is Richard Quinney’s social reality of crime
thesis? What are the propositions? Under what conditions are criminal
definitions more likely to be applied?
According to Quinney, what community and organizational factors increase
the probability that criminal definitions will be applied?
7. According to Colvin, what
are the characteristics of early colonial
8.
According
Rusche and Kirchheimer, why was state punishment was not very great in the
early Middle Ages in
9. How do conceptions of crime and
punishment change with the rise of capitalism?
Who are Cesare Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin
Rush and what did they argue? Bentham
proposed that criminal justice should be primarily concerned with what? How did conceptions of criminal behavior
change with the emergence of industrialism in the West?
10. In
class, I explained the development of the penitentiary in the nineteenth
century by linking changes in punishment to economic cycles. Why does Colvin criticize this
procedure? According to Colvin, to
fully understand the cycles of reform and stagnation in the development of the
penitentiary one needs to do what?
11. What does Randall Kennedy mean by his concept of “racially selective
underprotection”? What is the logic of
racially-based sexual controls in the
12.
According to Colvin, which of the following factors
shaped the convict leasing system in the US South? According to Colvin, what does the
case of southern punishment cause us to question? What role did white fear of black crime play
during the emergence of the new south? Which of
the four major theorists covered in Colvin’s text fail to adequately explain
punishment in the US South according to the author?
13. How would
the four main theorists Colvin covers in his text explain the development of
"true womanhood"? What
was/were the reason(s) for the expansion of women's prison reform in the
mid-late 19th century? What did Zebulon
Brockway propose in the mid-1800s to minimize crime? According to Colvin, did the emergence of the
ideology of “True Womanhood” change the way people thought about the inherent
natures of men and women? What was the
purpose of “scientific charity”?
14. What do
Ehrenreich and English argue in the article, “The Sexual Politics of Sickness?”
What is the “cult of invalidism”? Were
there social class differences in how the cult of invalidism affected women? What was the theory many doctors were
claiming explained mental illness in women in the late nineteenth century? What do Ehrenreich and English identify as
the principle causes of the cult and its effects? Are there parallels between the way women are
treated today and they way they were treated in one hundred years ago?
15. What are
the main points in our critique of the mass media system? Who owns the major media? What is the structure and function of the
major media? What are the filters
discussed by Chomsky. According to
Parenti, does the media have a liberal or conservative bias? Or does it have a bias? What do the studies presented in the lecture
show? Is the media becoming more open or
more of a monopoly?
16. According to Weber's rationalization
thesis, what is distinctive to Western society and increasingly dominating the
world? What is the name Weber gives to
his claim that people in Western societies have become imprisoned by rational
systems of their own creation? What did
Weber mean when he describe modern bureaucratic society as an “iron cage”? How is disenchantment related to
rationalization? What role does the
Protestant ethic play in this?
17. Know the
four principles of rationalization.
Ritzer acknowledges that efficiency may increase convenience for
customers. What are some of the other consequences? What are the basic characteristics of the
Holocaust according to Ritzer? What is
the phrase Weber and Ritzer use to argue that with rationalization there is a
tendency for rational systems to behave unreasonably? What does Ritzer’s mean by “birth as
pathology”? What is the irrationality of
rationality? What is its connection to
fascism?
18. Be prepared to connect Weber and
Ritzer’s arguments to Foucault’s analysis of the Panopticon? How would you explain the Panopticon using
Ritzer’s McDonaldization principles?