1. Marx and Engels. What is historical materialism as a means to understand social change for Marx and Engels? What is the main source of conflict? What is alienation and what three things are we alienated from? What would be the ideal type of society and its characteristics? 2. Race. Why is DuBois’s work considered part of the conflict theory perspective? What is double consciousness? Why does it exist? How does critical race theory explain conflict in the social world? 3. Gender. How does Gilman use the horse as a metaphor? Explain Smith’s standpoint theory. Explain Collins’ use of intersectionality.  4. Weber. What is the main theoretical argument about the effects of modernity on the social world and on the individual, as made by Weber? [In your response, be sure to discuss rationalization and the “iron cage.”]  5. Critical Theory/Frankfurt School. What is the main argument about modernity made by the Frankfurt School’s (Critical Theory) theorists? How does their work draw on both Weber’s and Marx’s theories? 6. Define and discuss Bourdieu’s theory of habitus as an attempt to overcome the structure-agency “false” dichotomy; i.e., how are social structure and action interrelated for Bourdieu? What is the relationship between habitus and class? How does the social world get reproduced, according to Bourdieu? 7. Discuss how world-systems theory explains the operation of the modern world-system. Include a discussion of the characteristics of the core-, semi-periphery, and periphery. How is world-systems theory an extension of Marx’s thought?

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