Write brief essays(roughly page and half a half, double-spaced) on three of the folowing topics.

1. Max Weber was the classic theorist of modern bureaucracy. Within industrialized society, according to Weber, such formal organizations are characterized by certain inescapable features: rules, procedures, division of labor, discipline, social hierarchy. In your opinion, to what extent are they compatible with democratic institutions and practices?

2. Erving Goffman understood social interaction as universally following certain scripts within something of a theatrical provess involving front-stage, and role-playing. Having viewed the docummentary Queen of Versailles, write an essay showing how the super-rich people depicted in the film follow roughly the framework established by goffman.

3. Karl Marx viewed the historical development of social classes within modern capitalism as ultimately following a certain pattern whereby society would be starkly divided between the owners of capital and workers in general, between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Write an essay assessing Marc's theory od social classes against the backdrop of the class strycture that prevails in contemporary American society.