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Essays 151 - 180

Karl Marx's Power Concept and Max Weber's Definition of Authority

but traditional authority is something that was existent in the pre-modern era (1977). That sort of authority is welded in the be...

Societal Conflict from Different Perspectives

In four pages society's conflict is examined with a contrast and comparison of Marx's and Coser's theories. Two sources are cited...

Karl Marx, Socialism, Communism And Class Struggle

economy; without its influence, the modern market as the global society knows it would not exist. The fundamental purpose of mone...

Karl Marx and Emilie Durkheim on Division of Labor Concepts

unskilled. Many of the skills they acquired were specific. From there, new trades were born. The workers in society were transform...

Concepts of Karl Marx and Neo Weberians

in the society and culture (Billig, 2000). Neo-Weberians expand that; they see economics as being "embedded" in complex, capitalis...

Leon Trotsky's Thinking on Nazi Rituals

for himself..." (Trotsky, 1933, p. 399). He says that a leader is "the individual supply to meet a collective demand" (Trotsky, 19...

Religion and the Perspectives of Karl Marx

existence will continue and the thing that people are most afraid of-death-is something that is comprehended as tolerable. Death b...

Sociologist Karl Marx's Life and Theories

of Christianity, and went to school. He would later have nothing to do with religion, even coining the phrase related to the idea ...

Horton's Seeds of Fire

grandfather, a devout Christian who taught Horton "a strong biblical sense of the differences between rich and poor... and that ed...

Contemporary Society and Alienation

of the coming expropriation of the expropriators" (Marx, 1983, p.75-76). Here, it is suggested that perhaps Marxs contribution was...

Factors of Original Revolutionary Theory

rule over the rest of society only so long as that class best represented the economically productive forces of that society. When...

Economy Theory and the Industrial Revolution's Impact

about the factory workers and how they did not feel as if they accomplish anything. This idea of course was born on the backs of t...

Insights and Concepts Regarding Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

Inevitability of Capitalism's Failure

of class struggle, of the economic contradictions of capitalism, and of the coming expropriation of the expropriators" (Marx 75-76...

Globalization and the Theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx

essential ingredient of the accelerated globalization of the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries" (p.319). Yet, one ...

Edna Bonacich, William Domhoff, and Karl Marx on Class Conflict

it (the bourgeoisie) (Tucker, p. 472). Furthermore, the bourgeoisie "cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instrume...

History, Revolution, and Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto

a call to arms, and a reflection of the history of humanity in the Western world. In fact, the opening words of the first section ...

Hochschild, Berman, Marx, and Social Alienation

is specific to the job. There does not seem to be as much attention to the holistic consequences of alienation. Rather than being ...

Life and Concepts of Karl Marx

that created a chasm between the haves and the "have nots." With people working for the government, and each getting an equal stip...

Communism and Karl Marx

In four pages this paper examines historical materialism in this discussion of Karl Marx's perspective of communism and its diffic...

Karl Marx and Economic Determinism

angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...

Demise of the 'Grand Narratives' like The Communist Manifesto

to exist because we cannot fathom them? This is the postmodernist reality. We have come to believe that we have no story to tell...

Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx on the Division of Labor

all of these woes. Marx and Durkheim have always been concerned, in different ways, with the issue of social inequality. Marx...

An Alienation Essay

splitting of people as the cause of the condition of alienation. Marx believes that the effects of Capitalism that split workers ...

Karl Marx on the Importance of the State

In ten pages this paper discusses capitalism in an overview of Karl Marx's views on the importance of the state. Five sources are...

Human Nature and Comparing Mill and Marx

his time, and advocated many changes which he thought would make the world a better place but which were certainly not in keeping ...

Comparison of Chinese Communism and Marxism

people who are a part of the underclass and they sometimes find solace in the communist ideology or even in support of the Democra...

Accounts of Marxism's 'Death' Are Highly Exaggerated

In eight pages Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and its continued relevance are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Life and Times of Karl Marx

and only some application in French" (pp. 6). In short, it would appear that he was a typical and educated, middle-class, studen...

Deviance in Conflict Theory and Consensus

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...