Memo 2

 

Memos are meant to offer me evidence that you are mentally processing the readings for yourselves and linking the theories to empirical observations. There are three parts to each of your memos. Please label them as such. 

 Overall Summary In a minimum of 400 words, share the overall points you gained from this week’s readings (this includes the articles). What stood out to you? What were the thesis statements, foundational assumptions or beliefs, or relationships between the Ritzer chapter and articles for the week? Please clearly reference the book and the articles. Use APA format when directly quoting or paraphrasing. 

Current Application In paragraph form, briefly discuss how a concept or theory could be applied to a  current issue. Please visit Upworthy, Everyday Feminism, Ted Talks, Soc Images or some other credible news source for this section. Please copy/paste the URLyour memo so I know which source you used.

Engaging Question After thinking about what you’ve learned this week, come up with an engaging question that could be asked of your classmates. 

Links to reading material: 

Verstehen: Max Weber’s Home Page

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm

This site covers some of the same ground as Chapter 2, but extends the discussion to such topics as Weber’s notion of causality and a theory of sociocultural evolution.  It also includes some lengthy quotations from Weber’s work.

The Durkheim Pages

http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/

This site provides a wealth of material on Emile Durkheim, including a glossary of Durkeimian concepts, reviews of recent work on Durkheim, full texts of Durkheim’s work in French and English, and critical summaries of each of Durkheim’s four major works.

Marxists.org Internet Archive

http://marxists.org/

This archive contains a searchable database of the works of Marx and Engels, biographical materials, image galleries, and reference works.  It also contains material on other Marxists, Marxist history, a beginner’s guide to Marxism, and an encyclopedia of Marxism.  Much of the material is more ideological than sociological.