Ideas and creative thought processes of each of the 5 pre modern and modern day sociologists, and their ideologies 1. Karl Marx 2.max weber 3.emil durkeim 4.george heel 5. Theodor adorno.

Use all three perspectives (functionalism, conflict and interactionism) to analyze the following issue: social networking sites. Write an essay in which you complete the following: Give a brief introduction that identifies the issue you have chosen and why. Describe in three separate paragraphs how each perspective would view or explain the issue. Include elements of culture in your analysis. Provide a conclusion that discusses which perspective you think is most applicable to the issue or how the three perspectives complement one another in understanding the issue.
1. Discuss the view that it is the comic elements in King Lear that heighten the tragedy for the audience. Tips: 1. discuss the principal elements of comedy and tragedy in text as well as in film performance; 2. apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the written plays and film adaptations under scrutiny; 3. relate the written and texts and film adaptations studied to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts and to the construction of those contexts; and 4. analyse written texts and their film adaptations in detail and with precision so as to achieve the above. Without repeating too much biographical information, students should demonstrate their general awareness of the historical and social context in which the plays have been written and about which they have been written. A brief historical and social context facilitates and enriches the understanding and the enjoyment of literature.