Choose ONE of the questions from the list below. Ensure that you consult the assignment tips and guidance page posted on canvas and engage with the essay writing lecture .
1. Explain and critically assess the main features of Marx’s historical materialism.
2. Critically assess Marx’s account of the alienating effects of capitalism and how it would be overcome under communism.
3. Explain and critically assess Durkheim’s account of ‘social facts’, using his study of Suicide to illustrate your answer
4. Explain and critically assess Durkheim’s account of the transition from ‘mechanical’ to ‘organic’ solidarity.
5. Explain and critically assess the merits of Weber’s contributions to sociological methodologies
6. Explain and critically assess the sociological significance of Weber’s concept of the ‘ideal-type’
7. What is the ‘iron cage’ of bureaucracy identified by Weber? How might it be resisted?
8. Outline the main contributions to sociology made by W. E. B. Du Bois and critically assess his frequent absence from the sociological canon
