From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (Routledge Classics in Sociology)

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Spelling and Grammar: Misused words, typos, subject-verb agreement errors, and incorrect verb tenses. Multiple Rounds: Edit for different aspects in each round—for example, content in one, grammar and syntax in another, and citations in the last. Vocation Lectures; excerpts from Economy and Society; essays from what would be compiled as Weber's Collected Works on Sociology of Religion (an intro, a between-tro, a companion essay to PESC, excerpts from Confucianism and Daoism and Religions of India), and some pieces about Germany politics and economy. Good intro too. Three Examples of Postmodern Thinkers – brief class notes covering the work of Lyotard, Foucault and Baudrillard. For example, suppose two people meet at a college dance. They are interested in getting to know each other. What would be an on-the-surface understanding and description of their interaction over the next few minutes? What do they say? If they are like a typical couple who just met, they will ask questions like, What’s your name? Where are you from? What dorm do you live in? What’s your major? Now, such a description of their interaction is OK as far as it goes, but what is really going on here? Does either of the two people really care that much about the other person’s answers to these questions? Isn’t each one more concerned about how the other person is responding, both verbally and nonverbally, during this brief interaction? For example, is the other person paying attention and smiling? Isn’t this kind of understanding a more complete analysis of these few minutes of interaction than an understanding based solely on the answers to questions like, What’s your major? For the most complete understanding of this brief encounter, then, we must look beyond the rather superficial things the two people are telling each other to uncover the true meaning of what is going on.

Citations are essential in academic writing as they give credit to the original authors of ideas and information, allow readers to verify sources, and prevent plagiarism. Common Citation Styles in Sociology The Neoliberal Theory of Economic Development – a detailed post on how deregulation, low taxation and privatisation has mostly harmed developing countries and made rich countries richer. Postmodernity and Postmodernism – Postmodernity is the historical period, postmodernism the theory (or anti-theory) – these are more detailed class notes, summary of Pip Jones’ ‘Social Theory’ book. This article will discuss “How to Write a Sociological Essay” with insider pro tips and give you a map that is tried and tested. An essay writing is done in three phases: a) preparing for the essay, b) writing the essay, and c) editing the essay. We will take it step-by-step so that nothing is left behind because the devil, as well as good grades and presentation, lies in the details.The Marxist Theory of Society Revision Notes – very brief revision notes covering the key ideas of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. Feminisms As the academic semester gets underway, we talked to three senior colleagues in Sociology at the University of Manchester to come up with their ‘pet peeves’ when marking student’s essays. Here are some of their comments, and some of our top tips to help you to improve your work. The abstract is a 6 to 10 line description of what you will talk about in your essay. An abstract is a very substantial component of a sociological essay. Most of the essays written in academia exceed the word limit of 2000 words. Therefore, a writer, i.e., you, provides the reader with a short abstract at the beginning of your essay so that they can know what you are going to discuss. From the point of view of the reader, a good abstract can save time and help determine if the piece is worth reading or not. Thus, make sure to make your abstract as reflective to your essay as possible using the least amount of words. Postmodernity and the Point of Sociology – brief class notes considering what a ‘postmodern sociology’ might look like.

The Marxist theory of the family developed from the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marx believed society was made up of two important parts, the economic base or infrastructure and the superstructure, which includes the family. By economic base, Marx means the capitalist system of production and the capitalist class structure, whereas by the superstructure, Marx means the other institutions of society, the family, the education system, the mass media, the religious system, the political system and the legal system. He argued that the economic base influences the organisation of the institutions of the superstructure so that they operate to maintain the capitalist system. Essays will either be 20 or 30 marks depending on the paper but the general advice for answering them remains the same: So you have to write a sociological essay, which means that you already either received or have a topic in mind. The first thing for you to do is PLAN how you will attempt to write this essay. To plan, the best way is to make an outline. The topic you have, certainly string some thread in your mind. They can be instances you heard or read, some assumptions you hold, something you studied in the past, or based on your own experience, etc. Make a rough outline where you note down all the themes you would like to talk about in your essay. The easiest way to make an outline is to make bullet points. List all the thoughts and examples that you have in find and create a flow for your essay. Remember that this is only a rough outline so you can always make changes and reshuffle your points. Althusser’s Scientific Marxism – class notes, quite detailed covering the distinction between the repressive and ideological state apparatus and Althusser’s critique of Humanist Marxism. These tips point you towards the most important part of learning to write good sociological essays: bringing everything you do into the service of producing an argument which responds to the question and provides a satisfying answer.

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Goffman (1969) compares life to drama and that we are actors who take on roles and act them out as public performances. We play diverse roles, parent, child, sibling, employee, friend acting differently in one role than we would in another this is different to functionalism which would suggest that our roles gives us our place in society. Bauman (1990) says that roles and relationships learnt in the family are essential to shaping our future. Close relationships in the family represents ‘insider group’ which gives us a sense of belonging and define who we are. The notion of ‘us and them’ comparing outsider groups is similar to radical psychiatry. (Haralambos and Holborn, 2008) Robert Merton’s Internal Critique of Functionalism – class notes, quite detailed covering concepts such as indispensability, functional unity and universalism. Use Academic Databases: Access scholarly articles through databases such as JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Sociological Abstracts. Parsons (1955) states that there are two irreducible functions of the family, primary socialisation through which children learn to accept the norms and values of society and stabilisation of adult families, that is helping the adults to cope with stresses of everyday life by giving them the necessary emotional support. The emotional support of spouses in marriage helps prevent stress overpowering the individual and frightening the stability of society. (Taylor and Richardson et al, 2002)