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Explanation-

Choose one of the three authors below and explain the argument associated with their major works. You should both explain the concepts and eicai2the details of how they lay out their argument step by step. It should be about 450-600 words but it is more important to take the time to make it a clear, concise, and well-structured essay. Write it as if you are explaining it to someone who never read the work.

Marx's concept of commodity fetishism in Capital-

Marx's concept of commodity fetishism is often misunderstood. But if you follow the argument it becomes clearer that what he is saying is pretty strange. What is the fetishism of commodities, where does it come from, and how does Marx establish the existence of the fetish aspect of the commodity? Be sure to relate the concept of commodity fetishism to the discussion of the value and exchange value of commodities earlier in this chapter.

Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism-

Weber has a unique idea about the rise of modern capitalism in Western Europe and North America. Describe the argument Weber makes about the historical process that leads from the "traditional economic ethic: as illustrated in his discussion of introducing payment by piece rate and the early cottage industry, to the "spirit of capitalism," as illustrated in the writings of Benjamin Franklin. What are the intervening steps'?

Durkheim's types of social solidarity in The Division of Labor in Society-

Durkheim describes the evolution of human society in the historical movement from multitudes of small scale societies held together by bonds of mechanical solidarity to larger, more complex and more differentiated societies whose coherence was a matter of debate. Durkheim thought they were required a different kind of social solidarity, namely organic solidarity. Explain this process o development, how it took place, and how it relates to the concept of collective consciousness.