- Your answers should be written in the provided blue book only.
- Your answers to the exam questions have to be constructed in essay form. This means no outlines and incomplete sentences. There are 5 questions and you have one hour and fifteen minutes. On average this means 15 minutes per question. Don’t rush.
- Your answers have to be based on our readings and class discussions. When reading your responses, I have to have the sense that you are writing based on what we discussed in class, not some general comments about the questions.
Contents
Question 1 – (30 points out of 100)
In your own words, describe what Althusser meant by ideological and repressive state apparatuses. Explain what each term means. Give an example for each apparatus/
Question 2 – (10 points)
What was the Labor Theory of Value about? Why do we study it in our module on social classes?
Question 3 – (15 points)
What does the formula C-M-C refer to? Explain what the letters mean, as well as include an example to clarify your explanation of the formula. Hint: in your answer you should begin by discussing commodities (define what a commodity is, the way we did it in class….)…
Question 4 – (15 points)
What does the formula M-C-M’ refer to? Explain what the letters mean, as well as include an example to clarify your explanation of the formula.
Question 5 – (30 points)
According to what we studied in Modules 4 and 5, what are the two main social classes in US society today? What is the difference between these classes based on? In other words, what makes someone a member of one social class, or the other? Give an example of each social class, which illustrates the difference between the two classes.
