Part 1According to the reading, Social Change: Modern and Postmodern Societies answer the
following questions.
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How and why does social change happen?
Briefly describe the five major causes of social change.
What is Modernity? Briefly describe the four major characteristics of modernity.
Describe how sociology founding fathers, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl
Marx, describe modern society. Point out the similarities and differences in their
understanding of modernity.
Part 2
1. What is sociological imagination? How can you analyze the impact of the covid-19
pandemic in American society from the lenses of the sociological imagination?
2. What is culture and what is its main role to people in society?
3. What is social stratification and how do we distinguish social class in the United
States?
4. In your own words, summarize the following theories: Cooley-the looking-glass self,
Mead-stages of the self, and Freud-structure of personality.
5. What is gender socialization? Describe how family, school and mass media impact
gender socialization.
6. Why do sociologists claim that race is a social construction?
7. Is race based on biology? Yes or no, explain.
8. How does the founding father of sociology Karl Marx and Max Weber differ on their
view toward modernity?
Please make sure that you fully answer each question. They should be a little over a paragraph in
length for each question.