This is a list of essay questions for the second midterm exam that will be given on November 14, 2002. On the exam you will be asked to answer one essay from a list of two or three alternative choices. Those choices will be taken from the list of questions below. Not all of these questions will appear on the exam.

A. Is Bucknell a total institution?
B. How are formal organizations and communities similar and different?
C. Compare the functionalist concept of socioeconomic status with the Marxist concept of social class.
D. Compare the theories of social stratification proposed by Marx and Weber.
E. How was the population explosion related to the industrial revolution in European societies?