• Option 1: Pick any theorist who remotely interests you from the following list:
  
  

  Functionalism	Conflict	Marxist	Interactionism
  Talcott Parsons; Robert K. Merton; Neil Smelser; Robin M. Williams Kingsley Davis; Barrington Moore; Robert Bales Jeffrey Alexander Robert Nesbet; Alice Rossi G.C. Homans; Peter Blau	C. Wright Mills; Ralf Dahrendorf; Randall Collins; William Domhoff; Jessie Bernard; William Chambliss; Lewis Coser	Pauline Bart; Dorothy Smith Immanuel Wallerstein; James Petras; Perry Anderson; Ralf Miliband; Nicos Poulantazas; Max Horkheimer; Theodor Adorno; Jurgen Habermas Pierre Bourdieu; George Lukacs; Michel Foucault; Herbert Marcuse	Arnold Rose; Herbert Blumer; Erving Goffman; Dennis Bressett; Anselm Straus; Peter Berger; Thomas Luckman; Manford Kuhn David Snow

  
  
  The paper needs to include:
  1. Biography
  2. Main ideas
  3. critique
  4. Bibliography

• Option 2:

  Pick a topic and analyze it from 'one' sociological perspective. The point is to use the concepts appropriate to the issue to make sociological sense of the topic. This is not a library paper although you will need information on the topic as your data.

Use at least five sources not including the reading for the course ( you may use the material from class and count it in your bibliography, but it must be beyond the five sources. Write a five to eight page paper. Use the appropriate writing style for a sociology paper. You can find a writing guide at http://www.d.umn.edu/socanth/guide/guideInd.html.

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