EXAM I

DUE 10/28/22




Email a single document with all of your maps and text to josh.seim@bc.edu.



PART I


Produce “theory maps” and written answers (approximately 250-500 words) for three of the following questions:


  1. What might Marx and Engels say to Durkheim about the advanced division of labor?


  1. What might Marx and Engels say to Weber about the emergence of Western capitalism?


  1. What might Durkheim say to Marx and Engels about the origins of the division of labor?


  1. What might Durkheim say to Weber about the iron cage?


  1. What might Weber say to Marx and Engels about consciousness?


  1. What might Weber say to Durkheim about the rise of restitutive law?



PART II


Offer a written answer (approximately 250-500 words) for one of the following questions:


  1. Should we burn the “canon” of Marx and Engels, Durkheim, and Weber down to the ground and stop teaching them in sociological theory classes? Why or why not?


  1. Which of our theorists so far offers the most useful framework for making sense of the world today? Why?