Question 1:

"You take my life when you take the means whereby I live" William Shakespeare

"I do not believe we can replace the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life." Bill Clinton

(a) Distinguish between functional, structural and cyclical unemployment.

(b) How does K. Marx analyse unemployment in the capitalist system?

(c) What are the effects of unemployment on the individual and on society?

(d) How far does the assertion that there are two distinct labour markets hold true in the Mauritian setting?

Question 2:

(a) Use any specific sector of the Mauritian economy to describe the concept of Alienation.

(b) What are the factors leading to ‘anomie', and how will it be dealt with?

(c) What are the basic characteristics of a Bureaucracy, according to Weber?