Question #6
Power is a core concept within the social sciences. What is it and why is it so centrally important?
Question #7
Agency a core concept within the various disciplines so far. What is it and does it mean for a person to have agency?
Question #8
Across multiple chapters in Eller, as well as the Adam Smith reading, the concept of the division of labor has been discussed. What is the division of labor and why is it important for understanding society?
Question #9
In this paragraph, please define the sociological imagination (including it's key parts) and include an example, either from your personal experience or one you're aware of that happened in someone else's life (not the example from lecture).
Question #10
Define the four fields of anthropology and explain, in a couple sentences, how they are related/are all anthropology.
Question #11
Much of modern economic thought believes people to be, generally speaking, rational and self-interested. What does these two concepts mean and why are they core to our modern understandings?
Question #12
What are Weber's three types of authority? Please give a contemporary example of each of them in action (that aren't from the reading or lecture).
Question #13
Throughout the chapters we've read thus far, Eller has discussed a variety of methodological approaches that researchers use. Name and describe three different methods used.
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