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In sociology you memorise thinkers, their concepts, their books and precise definitions. Lumi asks them back, while analysing a social phenomenon stays your job.

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Make one note per thinker and one per concept, with the exact definition, the book, the date and a concrete example. Lumi quizzes names, concepts such as habitus, anomie or socialisation, dates of books and the differences between neighbouring ideas. The typical trap is mixing up two thinkers or two close concepts. Write down side by side what sets them apart and have it asked again. Lumi fixes the vocabulary and the references they need. Testing yourself without notes helps more than rereading (Karpicke et al., 2009).

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Durkheim published Suicide in 1897. Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism appeared in 1905. C. Wright Mills coined the term sociological imagination. Marx saw history through the struggle between classes.

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Durkheim published Suicide in _____.

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