Please choose 3 out of 6 of the following questions to answer for your exam. Your answers must be edited for grammar, sentence structure, flow and be about 200 words each double spaced. 1) How does Marx, in his early writing, describe the way that species being aligns work with our human nature? How does this turn Hegel on its head to make it a materialist theory? How do workers become alienated? What are the types of alienation and how does this play out in modern life? 2) Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in order for workers to have a template to resist capitalism in its early industrial production form. How did Marx’s work on Capital after that explain the normal manner in which capital uses living labor to draw profit out of dead labor? Explain this last phrase, use a modern example to explain, and cite a television of media program that represents this metaphor. 3) Explain the difference for Weber between substantive and calculative rationality and how the dominance of one could give rise to the other. How does bureaucratic thought develop under capitalism, and supplant other values? 4) Durkheim was concerned with the function of morality in society. Why did he think that Organic Solidarity would be stronger than Mechanical solidarity, in the context of individual freedom? Explain what he means by freedom in modern society. Use an example of a collective representation that helps to bind people together in modern societies, and how? 5) Durkheim used suicide to explain how the moral function of society was both integrative and regulatory. How does Anomie affect modern society? Use an example and be sure to define Anomie in both theoretical and everyday terms. What are sources of anomic suicide, and criminal acts, that afflict us today? What is there to be done? 6) According to Goffman, a person is saving face when the line they take in action and gesture is internally consistent with how others see them. Following that logic, how are the theories of Simmel and DuBois engaged with more critical issues of geometry and biology, but still centered around a psychological concept of the social self.