1. Max Weber has returned to North America as a newspaper correspondent to write about the upcoming referendum in Quebec. Write Weber's analysis.

2. Weber analyzed stratification as multidimensional -- involving class, status and party. Take one or more of these dimensions and illustrate how Weber's approach could be used to examine some aspect of social stratification or some social issue in Canada today.

3. Write a short paper outlining how Weber connects power, authority and rationalization in his analysis of bureaucracy.

4. "Rationalization plays the same role within Weber's theoretical system that class struggle serves in the Marxian theoretical structure." Comment on and critique this statement, focussing primarily on Weber's views.

5. Take Ritzer's description of Weber's ideal type bureaucracy and apply this description to some bureaucracy with which you are familiar (e.g. the University of Regina, a company you have worked for). Write an essay showing how the example is simil ar to or differs from the ideal type. Where possible, point out sociological implications of these similarities or differences.

6. Write a feminist critique of either Weber 's view of patriarchy or some aspect(s) of Durkheim's writings.

7. In Saskatchewan, considerably higher proportions of people of aboriginal origin are imprisoned than are people of other origins. What might Durkheim have to say about this?

8. Some of the ideas of Durkheim can be found in the structural functionalist approach of Parsons. Present some of the main ideas and arguments of Parsons that are built on these earlier approaches, showing how Parsons used these concepts.

9. Durkheim and Marx are often considered to have completely opposed theories of society. At the same time there are a number of similarities in the way that Durkheim and Marx examine society. Write an essay comparing Durkheim and Marx, concentratin g primarily on the similarities between their approaches, but pointing out differences where necessary.