Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its basic elements for example it’s norms‚ customs‚ traditions and institutions. This theory tends to ignore the disparities between the people in society‚ and all the inequalities. Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist who agreed with Marx that people often fight to protect their own interests‚ but he agreed with Durkheim that what people consider their interests often are determined by socialization and shared values. He believed
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Karl Marx Karl Marx’s (1818- 1883) thought was strongly influenced by: The dialectical method and historical orientation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; The classical political economy of Adam Smith and David Ricardo; French socialist and sociological thought‚ in particular the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The most important concepts of Karl Marx The following concepts of Marx have aided sociological thought significantly; Dialectical Materialism Materialistic Interpretation
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Sociology is one of the very few disciplines in social science that takes keen interest in the writings of a small group of supposed founding fathers. It has been controversially agreed that the founding fathers of sociology are Karl Marx‚ Emile Durkheim and Max Weber who created sociology in response to dramatic changes in European society: the industrial revolution‚ class conflict‚ secularization‚ alienation and the modern state. (Pg 1511) Not only are their texts read and reread through time
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schools. This study is a beginning in an effort to develop a body of literature in these schools. Max Weber’s (in Gerth & Mills‚ 1946) thinking and Hall’s (1961) operationalization of bureaucracy form the theoretical foundation for the study. Because the construct of alienation is the main construct that has been studied with relation to bureaucracy‚ this study also examines the relationships between bureaucracy and sense of power as a measure of alienation. Context Organizations surround us
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Marx and Engels are against private property and want to abolish the class system and the exploitation relationship between bourgeoisie and proletariat from the DL‚ and to achieve the ideal communist society that people have the idea of shared property. They believe the DL is what creates the division of people into social classes and is a result of the subordination of one over another through ownership. The DL‚ the class system‚ and the privatization of private property are abolished in a communist
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Max weber is the father of father of the bureaucratic management theory. ’This theory has two essential element .The prime one is configuring a institution in hierarchy and second one is the organization and the its people are administered by specific legal decision making rules. He believed that once bureaucracy has established in organization it is extremely defiant to any attempt to remove its power. Weber identified three basic types of legitimate authority‚ Traditional authority- where people
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Max Planck (1858- 1947) Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist who created the quantum theory‚ which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. Max Planck was born in Kiel‚ Germany‚ on April 23 1858. He was the sixth child of a professor of law at the University of Kiel. He died at Gottingen on October 4‚ 1947. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light‚ but rather because its opponents
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Karl Marx and Industrialization The 1800s arranged the foundation for today ’s world and witnessed the growth of big business‚ government development‚ advancement of new technologies and formation of novel philosophies about social order. Karl Marx‚ a German philosopher and politician made it his life’s work to logically understand capitalism and nurture revolutionary groups during this industrializing period. The idea of capitalism is one where there is private ownership over any product or service
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Human Nature is to many a paradoxical relationship‚ to Karl Marx and Thomas Hobbes it forms those common elements which act as mans ‘means to life’ and mans eternal struggle with his own chains. For Marx‚ man’s own body‚ labour (or rather ‘life-activity’) and ‘spiritual essence’ form his human nature; a symbiosis which Marx calls “man’s inorganic body”. The products of a man’s labour according to Marx‚ are part of his bodily faculty and to remove these objects “estranges man’s own body from him”
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Marx is very critical of religion. He opens his critique of Hegel by saying that “man makes religion‚ religion does not make man” (115). State and society produce religion and man turns to it as a way of gain self-esteem and self-consciousness‚ but it is not needed for man to thrive. Marx believes that man uses religion as a crutch and even refers to it as the “opium of the people” (115). He believes that religion provides illusions for how world should and does work and as a coping mechanism for
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