Cliona Walshe 10705263 Q1. ‘there is no ideology‚ except by the subject for the subjects’ (Louis Althusser). Interpret Althusser’s statement in relation to the Marxist understanding of the relationship between subjectivity and ideology. You should refer in detail to the Althusser essay‚ as well as other relevant extracts concerning Marxism and ideology in the Norton Anthology. Louis Althusser advances Karl Marx’s account of the relationship between subjectivity and ideology in his essay Ideology
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Assess the contribution of the Marxist theory to the sociological understanding of crime and deviance. (21 marks) Marxism is a macro/structural approach to society‚ meaning that it looks at the large-scale societal structure for answers about how society works and operates and explores crime and deviance in relation to classes within a capitalist society. Marxists claim that laws do not reflect a value consensus‚ instead laws and law enforcement benefits the rich (protection of private property)
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The comparison of Marxists and Elitists accounts of political power. In this essay we will try to compare the Marxists and the Elitists views of political power and what makes these views different. Before we start analyzing it should be remarked that the Elitists approach is closely connected to the works and ideas of Gaetano Mosca‚ Roberts Michels and C. Wright Mills and the founder of such an approach to studying political power (W. Pareto)‚ who opposed his ideas to those of Marx and Gramsci
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Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” in the Marxist Critical Framework “Death of a Salesman” is the most famous play by the American writer Arthur Miller‚ first performed in 1949. It depicts dramatic life of the American salesman Willy Loman and his sons‚ Biff and Happy. The protagonist aspired to create a happy prosperous life for himself and his family through embodiment of American Dream‚ but failed and ended his life by a suicide. Marxist criticism‚ as a form of historic criticism in literary theory
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stratification is universal but variable. Third‚ it persists over generations and fourth‚ it is supported by patterns of belief. There are different sociological perspectives which have been put forward about social stratification; the Functionalists and the Marxists. A Functionalist‚ (Parsons‚ 1954 in Haralambos & Holborn‚ 2004)‚ has argued that stratification systems derive from common values. He proposes that those who perform successfully in terms of society’s values will be ranked highly and they will
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as a hole. Keeping this in mind they emphasise the social nature of religion and the positive functions it serves. They also neglect negative aspects such as religion as a source of oppression of the poor or women which are both the feminist and Marxist views. Functionalists think order is possible because of social consensus for example shared norms and values. Religious institutions offer that by creating social solidarity in a value consensus. Emile Durkiem (1912) believed regular shared religion
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When applying the Marxist lens to Issac Asimovs I’Robot the reader can view which class had the overall power. The Marxist lens allows us to look at text closely to analyze how economics‚ politics‚ and society are portrayed. I’Robot poses questions like who has power‚ who should have power‚ and what people (or robots) do with that power. Robots seem to have some power‚ since they are stronger than people‚ but people have a lot of power as their controllers. No matter how strong a robot is‚ it still
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A Marxist Analysis of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom In Stephen Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom‚ an archeologist name Indiana Jones teams up unexpectedly with a young boy and a night club singer for his second great adventure. After mistakenly crash landing outside of a small village in British controlled India‚ the trio is whisked off on a mission after discovering that not only is the village missing valuable and rare stones‚ but also all of their children have mysteriously
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Assess the clam that Marxist theory no longer has any relevance for understanding modern societies. [25] Marxism was developed by the German philosopher Karl Marx and is a radical alternative to functionalism. Functionalism‚ developed by Emile Durkheim‚ was very influential in the 1940’s and 50’s but started to decline in the 1960’s. Marxism had the answers functionalism failed to give. Marxism is based on the idea that we need food‚ shelter and products in order to survive. We enter in to social
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Although sociology is a recently developed field of study‚ the advancement of the study is progressing rapidly. Sociological theories are ways sociologists explain society and its mega structure. The structural conflict and structural consensus theories are inevitable chapters of sociology. With some similarities‚ these two theories have different ideologies and ways of explaining the society. In this essay‚ the similarities and differences will be compared and contrasted. Functionalism‚ the structural
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