Final Exam for Sociology 313 The Individual and Society, open-book comprehensive exam. The University expects that you will honor an honesty code of taking this exam based on your own knowledge and study.

Contains short answers and essays. Please place your answers in your Assignment Folder. Each short answer is worth four points each. To get full credit for short answers requires 4-5 sentences in a paragraph. You are required to answer a total of six essays Each essay is worth 10 points.

I Set I Short Answers: Identify or describe any five of these general concepts in this set:

1. Macro-level and micro-level interaction
2. Measuring aspects of social inequality
3. Military-industrial-complex
4. Holocaust
5. Symbolic Interactionism
6. Pluralist versus elite models of political power
7. Class struggle in the l9th century and today

Set II Short Answers: Identify or describe any five of these concepts in this set

(1a) McDonaldization

(2b) De-industrialization

(3c) Neo-liberalism

(4d) Irrationality of rationality(Ritzer)

(5e) Split labor force(Franke)

(6f) First world nations versus third world nations

(7g) Iron cage of rationality

Required Essays: To get full credit number each essay and identify each part of the essay. These are essay questions and as such keep in mind having a beginning, middle and conclusion. For any quote, identify its source, and put it in your own words in explaining it. . Ten points each.

1 Explain how globalization in general on one hand affects every person on the planet, and on the other hand has an uneven impact. What are the prospects of world capitalism eliminating extreme poverty or reducing inequality across nations?(make clear in your own mind how to define globalization).

2. Social inequality, which is found more or less in all societies, varies in degrees from time to time. (a)Illustrate that in the United States since the Great Depression of the l930’s, then after WWII, and now today. (b) discuss the role of government during those three time periods.

3.Assess the effects of technological change on the American working class. What does Kuttner as well as the team of McChesney and Nichols have to say about the dilemma of technological change on the American working class?

4. Clarify which model or models best describes the distribution of political power in America. Comment on the statement: a pluralist model of political power in theory is most compatible with the ideals of democracy but is unrealistic at this time.

5. Students had a choice in selecting a research topic. Would it be on low-wage service workers or the sociology of emotion, loneliness? Depending on which topic you chose (a) what did you learn you didn’t know before (b) how by writing on that topic you might learn a lot more doing your own original research on that topic?

6.As described in Dr. Franke’s lectures with reference to Max Weber, rationality, science and technology represent a rational world view of our age.Certainly so in the developed world. With all that is occurring in the world, why would you describe this phenomenon as a double-edged sword in terms of the present and future of humankind? (the good and the bad consequences)

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