Assignment:
Classical sociologists described social life as either dominated by cooperation or by conflict.
1. What are the guiding motives of individual actors that lead them to cooperate or to be in conflict with each other?
2. Do people have to believe that the existing social order is morally justified in order to comply to the rules on norms of society and how important is religion in this regard?
3. What role does economic inequality play in either sustaining or transforming the existing social order?
4. Is it possible and/or desirable to create a society in which no inequality exists?
(Marx, Engels, Elias, Durkheim, Mauss, Veblen, The Chicago School, Weber, Adam Smith) = Sociologists that can be used.