CSUN SPRING 2022 SOC 430-3 (4230) KARAGEORGIS EXAM 2 – KARAGEORGIS
Topic Menu for Exam 2: Complete one essay of no more than 1200 words in response to one of
the following topics, Due as noted in your course Canvas site, via e-mail (as an attachment) and
through the Canvas site for the course (Turnitin).
1. In broad terms, compare and contrast at least two of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel on the
advantages and disadvantages of modernity (extensive division of labor, specialization, larger political
and legal units, formal rationalization, money-mediated market-exchange, etc.) for individual human
beings (their cognitive, emotional and moral life and relationships).
2. Present Webers argument (drawing from the excerpts from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism in CCST and from The Social Psychology of the World Religions on Canvas) regarding the
effects of religious doctrines and practices (of the religious virtuosos and of the masses) on
