Final Exam Question #1: Compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict perspectives on who rules the United States. (word limit: 400 words-- I'll only read the first 400 words in your essay!)
Final Exam Question #2: From a structural-functional perspective, why is schooling important to the operation of society? From a social-conflict point of view, how does schooling reproduce social inequality in each generation? (word limit: 400 words-- I'll only read the first 400 words in your essay!)
Final Exam Question #3: In what respects do some recent social movements (the environment, animal rights, and gun control) differ from older crusades (the right of workers to form unions or right of women to vote). (word limit: 400 words-- I'll only read the first 400 words in your essay!)
Final Exam Question #4:.Develop an essay that highlights various qualities of modern societies following (a) modernity as mass society theory and (b) modernity as class society theory. Carefully describe modern societies in such a way as to bring out the differences in the two approaches. On what points do they agree? Which seems, on balance, the more convincing argument? Why? (word limit: 400 words--I'll only read the first 400 words in your essay!)