Exercises:

1. Find Russian equivalents for the following English words and phrases:

to lie at the origin, to exercise the effort, social evolution, oft-quoted term, human existence, contemporary industrialised societies, to be in existence, to absorb the first impact of changes, contemporary generation, way of life, urban life, to accelerate the dissolution, the practice of sociology, the rise of industrial capitalism, human race, social world, field-work, to be familiar with, the universale franchise, human cultures, the emergence of nation-states, an attempt at, present-day society, city-state, the diversity of modes of human existence, service, local community, to imply an experience of time, products, the exercise of the sociological imagination, the world-wide expansion of industrial capitalism, mode of life, city-state, to govern social processes, the decline of traditions, human society, to be in danger of being trivialised, to experience the impact, the texture of social life, the intersection of two great revolutions, industrial capitalism, the rise of the nation-state, by virtue of

2. Find English equivalents for the following Russian words and phrases:

разнообразие образов человеческого существования, современное общество, всемирное распространение промышленного капитализма, всеобщее право голоса, городская жизнь, человеческое общество, нынешнее поколение, посредством/благодаря чему-либо, точки соприкосновения двух великих революций, существование человека, образ жизни (2), человеческая культура, часто цитируемый термин, рост государств-наций, промышленный капитализм, местная община, применение социологического воображения, уклад социальной жизни, потеря традиций, социологическая практика, применить усилие, подвергать влиянию, лежать в основе, полагать, рост промышленного капитализма, продукция, быть хорошо осведомленным, существовать, человечество, современные промышленные общества, управлять социальными процессами, появление государств-наций, развитие общества

3. Answer the following questions on the text:

1. Speak about important theorists in sociology.

2. What is meant by the ‘sociological imagination’? What forms of the sociological imagination do you know?

3. Discuss the origins and the development of the industrial capitalism. Why can't historians agree about dating the origins of Western capitalism?

4. Characterise the contemporary societies.

5. What does the method of sociological imagination involve?

6. Prove that there is no distinction between the craft of a sociologist and the art of a historian while using the method of the sociological imagination.

7. Speak on differences in the way of life in previous societies and in these of present day.

8. How can you characterise the industrial revolution?

9. What is meant here by a political revolution? What are its consequences?

10. Prove that today we live in a world system that has no parallel in previous ages. What distinctive features of this new system can you identify?

12. What does the notion of 'ethnocentrism' express? Is it favourable for a society or not?

13. What idea is expressed in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality?

14. What does the work of an anthropologist include?

15. How does the sociological imagination make sociology different from the other social sciences?

16. Make presentations on the historical, anthropological and critical aspects of the sociological imagination.

17. Why is the sociological imagination very important in doing sociological research?

Comment on the following:

'The world we have lost'.

What does it mean? What distinctive features did that world system have? What social changes brought about the new world system?