Marx
1.
What did Marx adopt and discard from Hegel?
2.
How will the proletarian revolution come about
according to Marx?
3.
What is the role of culture in maintaining the
relations of production according to Marx?
4.
Why has the proletarian revolution not occurred?
5.
What is the relevance of Marx’s thought to the
discipline of Sociology and to the current political economic situation of the
nation?
Weber
1.
How did Weber turn Marx upon his head?Was there
really a break in Weber’s thought from Marx?
2.
Why did Weber think that the Protestant Ethic
was the Spirit of Capitalism?
3.
What was his fear about capitalism and the
modern bureaucracy?
4.
Explain Weber’s anti-structuralist approach to
the study of society.
5.
In what way was Weber considered the
quintessential sociologist?
Durkheim and Parsons
1.
Just like Marx, why was Durkheim considered a
structuralist?
2.
What was Durkheim’s assertion about society
which enables Sociologists to study human behaviour similar to the study of
natural science of natural phenomena?
3.
Central to Durkheim’s work on suicide and
religion was the concept of Social Solidarity. How did this concept figure in
his theoretizations on these two works?
4.
If Marx and Durkheim were to debate, In what
areas would they not agree and why?
5.
How did Parsons continue Durkheim’s work?
