Please choose one essay.

The word limit is 3000.

Deadline Thursday 5 January 2002.

For essay consultation, my Office Hour is on Monday 4pm at Sociology Department. Or email or telephone me.

1. ‘The concept of ‘globalisation’ has no analytical value.’ Discuss this statement, and relate your points to the Russian context.
2. Discuss the different approaches to the production and consumption of cultural products.
3. Examine how class, gender, ethnicity and age construct the process of fashion.
4. Assess the significance of class, gender, ethnicity and age in the process of advertising.
5. ‘‘Corporate Culture’ project is not only useless, it is also dangerous and counterproductive.’ Evaluate this statement.
6. Investigate the importance of governing identity, highlighting the recent changes to the worker’s identity.
7. How are cultural activities regulated, contrasting the various experiences of industrial countries?
8. Giving examples from different countries, discuss in what ways moralities influence the representations of sexuality and homosexuality.
9. ‘Obviously a ‘liberal’ society cannot tolerate all minority values and practices.’ Assess this statement.
10. Discuss the relative significance of the following terms:

• political economy
• cultural economy
• moral economy