Marx then goes into the first part of the body of his manifesto entitled "Bourgeois and Proletarians." In this part, he goes into how society started communal but then became more unequal as time went on. Systems such as Feudalism, Mercantilism, and Capitalism benefited from the use of exploitation. He first introduces the idea that economic concerns of a nation drive history, and that the struggle between the rich bourgeoisie and the hard working proletariat would eventually lead to Communism. He goes on and on about how the bourgeois have always got what they wanted. Marx reflected more on the negatives committed by the bourgeois than the positives. He states the bourgeoisie "has agglomerated population, centralized means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands." (Marx, p.8) He then describes the proletarians, or the labor class, and how they were formed, how they have suffered, and how they must overcome their struggles. Marx declares that this “dangerous class,” the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution." (Marx, p.15) This began an inevitable revolution where the proletariats take over and dethrone the bourgeoisie.…
1. How did Jane Addams and her colleagues at Hull House analyze the social disorganization of early twentieth-century Chicago? How were their methods and theories different from prevailing approaches to the origins of violence and squalor?…
Marx believed that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction. He described how the wealth of the bourgeoisie depended on the work of the proletariat. Therefore, capitalism requires an underclass. But Marx predicted that the continued exploitation of this underclass would create great resentment. Eventually the proletariat would lead a revolution against the bourgeoisie.…
Identify and critique the sociological contributions of the following mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century European thinkers: Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber.…
Crime- crime and criminal justice is designed to benefit the upper, powerful classes, while overthrowing the lower classes.…
David Emile Durkheim was a French theorist who wanted to create an ideal of sociology based on the idea that society is an unbiased and limiting material reality, independent to the individual. According to Durkheim, the division of labor is basically a significant source of social solidarity dating back to the foundation of life that links together and affects civil, economic, educational, and legal processes. This new…
Marx believed class struggles had existed throughout history and concluded that because of industrialization, society had dwindled down to two classes: the proletariat (laborers) and the bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production). He viewed class struggles and industry as harmful to humanity because they allowed the bourgeoisie to exploit the proletariat.…
A major argument that Marx put across in his scripts was that capitalism would force society to polarise, causing two classes within society, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. These classes were at both extremes of the social spectrum, the bourgeoisie been the rich "fat cats" who reeped the fruits of capitalism, they were normally the factory or…
Occasionally referred to as comparative studies, cross-cultural studies is a key division of social sciences that profiles field data from diverse societies across the globe. This data is closely correlated to sociological theory that palpably attempts to discuss in a consistent manner the assortment diversities of different societal organizations and behaviors. Therefore, it analyzes and tests the hypothesis of the underlying community of people under a particular culture. Moreover, sociological theory plays a great role in validating and testing theories crafted by different scholars throughout the globe (Sanderson, 2013). I can ascertain to the aforementioned notion via my observance of the Arabs culture in a cross-cultural group event I attended at the University of Texas Dallas International Center.…
In Book 1, Durkheim’s main argument is that there are two types of solidarities. The two solidarities Durkheim discussed are mechanical and organic solidarity. Mechanical solidarity refers to the division of labour in the early stages, which can be described as a remarkably primitive society. Organic solidarity refers to the contemporary stages of society wherein there is a well-developed division of labour. Durkheim said that as one society changes, the other breaks down and makes way for the new.…
A sociological theory is a set of ideas that provides an explanation for human society. Theories are selective in terms of their priorities and perspectives and the data they define as significant. As a result they provide a particular and partial view of reality. Sociological theories can be grouped together according to a variety of criteria. The most important of these is the distinction between Structural and Social action theories.…
5. Emile Durkheim, who strongly disagrees with Marx argued that we can now escape collective reign and are finally freed. In his sociology __________ will constitute as his culture, __________ will constitute as his society, which is made up of _____________ laborers.…
While Karl Marx may be one of the best-known sociologists of the nineteenth century, Max Weber is unquestionably one of the best impacts that influenced the field of sociology. Like the other sociologists examined throughout this class, he was concerned with the essential progressions occurring in Western society with the approach of industrialization. Also, like Marx and Durkheim, he feared that industrialization would have negative consequences on individuals.…
Emilie Durkheim was concerned with the transition to modern society and with it the birth of a new form of social order. In his works, Durkheim focused on the relationship between labor and the collective conscience. He noticed that as jobs began…
Karl Marx and Max Weber are two of the three founding architects of Sociology. The two made such great impact with this field because of the major studies that they did to be able to build Sociology itself a ‘structure’.…