THE BOUGEOISIE, THE PROLETARIATS AND CLASS STRUGGLE:
MARXIAN SOCIOLOGY
Sociology of Class conflict
Marxian sociology is also called “The sociology of class conflict.”
The main idea of Marxian Class Theory is to be found in the opening of his “Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848” which reads as follows:
“The history of the hitherto existing society is the history of the class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journey man, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on uninterrupted, now hidden and now open fight, a fight that each time ended in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in common ruin of the contending classes. ”1
It is clear that at every stage in …show more content…
But the same exploitation helps the rich to become richer.
In every mode of production which involves the exploitation of man by man, majority of people, the people who labor, are condemned to toil for no more than the barest necessities of life. With this, society gets divided into rich and poor. To Marx, poverty is the result of exploitation and not of scarcity.
Alienation
The process of alienation is central to Marxian theory of class conflict. The economic exploitation and inhuman working conditions lead to increasing alienation of man. Alienation results from a lack of sense of control over the social world. The social world confronts people as a hostile thing, leaving them alien in the environment.
The workers caught in the vicious circle of exploitation find no way to get out of it. Hence they lose interest in work. Work becomes an enforced activity, not a satisfying one.
The responsibility of the worker gets diminished because he does not own the tools with which he works and he does not own the final product too. This situation of alienation heightens the mood of the worker for a conflict.
Class
MARXIAN SOCIOLOGY
Sociology of Class conflict
Marxian sociology is also called “The sociology of class conflict.”
The main idea of Marxian Class Theory is to be found in the opening of his “Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848” which reads as follows:
“The history of the hitherto existing society is the history of the class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journey man, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on uninterrupted, now hidden and now open fight, a fight that each time ended in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in common ruin of the contending classes. ”1
It is clear that at every stage in …show more content…
But the same exploitation helps the rich to become richer.
In every mode of production which involves the exploitation of man by man, majority of people, the people who labor, are condemned to toil for no more than the barest necessities of life. With this, society gets divided into rich and poor. To Marx, poverty is the result of exploitation and not of scarcity.
Alienation
The process of alienation is central to Marxian theory of class conflict. The economic exploitation and inhuman working conditions lead to increasing alienation of man. Alienation results from a lack of sense of control over the social world. The social world confronts people as a hostile thing, leaving them alien in the environment.
The workers caught in the vicious circle of exploitation find no way to get out of it. Hence they lose interest in work. Work becomes an enforced activity, not a satisfying one.
The responsibility of the worker gets diminished because he does not own the tools with which he works and he does not own the final product too. This situation of alienation heightens the mood of the worker for a conflict.
Class