Essay 1: Economics versus sociology. What insights and improvements can economics offer us? Use not only our readings, but also other subjects you studied. What are sociology’s strengths vis-à-vis economics? Essay 2: Thinking about the present and the future. As we study the present, use your sociological imaginations to think about the state of some important facet of society—politics, conflict, inequality, power and democracy, whatever—and in this last memo, 1) raise an important challenge that we face and why it is significant, and 2) predict what will happen, and explain the reasoning behind your prediction. Use variables, causation, logic, etc. as you have learned it.