SOC101 Classical Sociological Theory Sections 107 and 108 Reading Response Questions for Wednesday 5 November: Durkheim on DoL (III) The following questions pertain to The Division of Labor in Society (pp. 201-6‚ 258-74‚ 277-303‚ 309-19). Pp. 320-31 are recommended. Please respond to each question in two to four sentences. Use brief quotes and/or page citations to support each answer. 1. According to Durkheim‚ what are the primary causes of the division of labor in general? Increase in material
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I am having a hard time with this reading response because this was the book I was the most excited to read for this class but I really struggled to like or even finish the book‚ which is very disappointing. Regardless of the notes we were given about the story in class I felt as if I had no idea what was going on during the first third of the book and after that I continuously wondered if I had missed very vital details to the story because I was so confused to begin with. Despite the interactions
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The Way To Wealth Reading Response Benjamin Franklin’s‚ “The Way to Wealth” essay talks about the taxes in which Americans had to pay but ways to make their earnings worthwhile. One of the steps to wealth is the line between getting help from others and helping ourselves. The essay informs of the extent to which outside people or institutions assist people on the way to wealth. The essay starts off with some old fashion‚ “hard work pays more” sayings. “ . . . neither the estate nor the office
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Reading Response In the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon a young boy diagnosed with autism named Chris tries to uncover the murder of his neighbor’s dog. The story is written from first person point of view which is Chris’. By doing so the author allows us to step inside Chris’ mind and understand how he views and analyses things. If the novel were to be written in any other point of view it would not be near
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Reading Response #2 Benjamin Franklin’s principles are comparable to the Mary Rowlandson’s orgins in way and also diverse in some ways. In Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography‚ Franklin holds alloy of importance on educations and improving one own self‚ and how it can benefit to anyone. Franklin is a person who believes if he constantly read and educates himself he will improve his own work and archive hid dream. Compared to Puritan constant belief in the bible and her faith in god will
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Objective Reading Response In the reading ‘2b or not 2b’’‚ there are figurative devices that can be identified as used by the author. Metaphor; the metaphors found in the passage is used to make a compare the text messages to’ bleak‚ bald sad shorthand‚ Drab shrink talk.’ The comparison continues ‘Texting is penmanship for illiterates’. Another comparisons without the use of the terms ‘as’ or ‘like’ with unlike things that in this case seems to have similar characteristics‚ was
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Sabrina Choung Professor Boeck RWS 200 February 6‚ 2015 Reading Responses Colombo Pg. 139-140 1. Moore provides evidence to support his contention that America is a nation of idiots by stating‚ “There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth grade level –in other words‚ who are functional illiterates” (Colombo 122) and also explains how he feels as if America wants to keep individuals “stupid” and “ignorant” (Colombo 123). I do agree with his statement that there
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Yash Agarwal EXP 202-005 Reading Response: The Boston Photographs 1/29/2013 Nora Ephron in her essay “The Boston Photographs” asserts that photojournalism is more powerful than written journalism. A photo can portray vivid information. A photo gives information that can be understood differently by different people. A photo speaks for itself‚ that’s what Ephron is trying to assert through her essay. In the essay she gives a detailed explanation on the controversy raised by the people upon
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A Modest Proposal Reading Response Jonathon Swift wrote A Modest Proposal in 1729 describing the very real poverty plaguing the Irish people. He lays out their misfortunes clearly and rationally‚ and argues‚ by hard-edged economic reasoning as well as from a self-righteous moral stance‚ for a way to turn this problem into its own solution. He draws attention to the number of starving children in Dublin. Swift goes through great pains to statistically support his proposal citing examples and generalizations
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Reading Response Mother tongue usually means the language first learned by a person‚ but for Amy Tan it has a special meaning‚ limited language which is the language her mother speaks. Tan feel so deeply about her “mother tongue” because the limited language effects that many people misunderstand her mother. The way Tan’s mother speaks effects the native English speaker think that she isn’t able to express her thoughts perfectly and don’t want to communicate with her. For examples
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