SOC755 Final Exam 24/1/2019
I. What are the four kinds of suicides that Émile Durkheim recognises? What are the
processes at the background of these kinds of suicides? Why did Durkheim study
suicides, at all?
II. Characterise shortly the four memory formats Aleida Assman distinguishes. Which
memory formats refer to phenomena known as collective memory and collective
identity?
III. In the book Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault discusses the epidemies of plague
and leprosy. Why does he do that? What do these epidemies, in his understanding,
represent? What is the difference between these two “political dreams” and what are
their modern manifestations?
IV. What are the main factors behind the current transformation of male and female roles,
according to Ulrich Beck? What is the nature of the current conflict between market
and family, and how is this conflict “individualised”?