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Ritzer: Contemporary Sociological Theory Book Cover
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics
George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Modern Theoretical Portraits of the Social World

Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to the National Organization for Women website (http://www.now.org) and answer the following questions:

  1. [Click on the "Issues" box.] What are three macro-level issues that the National Organization for Women finds important?
  2. [Click on one of these Key Issues and read one article or press release on this issue.] Which sociological theory discussed in Chapter 4 do you think best characterizes the National Organization for Women’s understanding of this key issue? Why?

 

Exercise 2

Go http://www.src.uchicago.edu/ssr1/PRELIMS/Theory/parsons.html#PARSONS5. This web page features notes from Talcott Parsons’s Social Structure of the United States (1954), Chapter Five "Age and Sex." After reading this material, answer the following questions:

  1. Why does Parsons believe that children of both sexes are treated relatively the same in American society?
  2. Why does Parsons believe that women need to have an education?
  3. What kinds of things do adolescent boys value?
  4. Do you agree with Parsons’s understanding of gender in American society? Why or why not?








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