What is theoretical exegesis? A theoretical exegesis is when someone tries to use an idea to given an critical explanation of a phenomena. Sociologist uses this in order to understand the social environment around us. C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination (1959) and Karl Marx Alienated Labour uses theory to understand the nature of society in two different point of views. Although Mills perspective does differ from Marx, it can be used to better intercept Marx’s ideas.
Mills quote, “Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of milieu’ and the ‘public issues of social structure’ (Mills 1959: 3, 6, 8).” For Mills the sociological imagination is sociological tries …show more content…
Marx explains alienation in the work focus in four points, (1) product of human labor, (2) work itself (3) species being and (4) how in work environment react to each other. The Product of his labor is explain as workers are slaves to product they create. They are able to sell the product of their labor, but they do not own the product they create nor can they afford to buy this product. For example, an Apple factory worker but not being able to buy an iPhone although they are the ones to create it with their labor. Work itself is the condition of work environment that people are face with on a day to day bases. In work environment people are face doing the same line of work day in and day out. There is no sense of change, which leads the workplace to become boring. The workplace destroys anytime of creativity a person may have. Thus, this affects a person species being. One of what make us human for Marx is the ability to be creatives individuals, with the workplace stopping that process, we no longer using our full potential. The individual being is now become dehumanized by the workplace. The dehumanization led people to no longer look for social relationships in workplace. Individual sees each other as competition rather than someone they can depend on. It also hurts social relationship between the employee and the employer. The worker just see their boss as …show more content…
For Mills, one should cannot dismiss micro perspective for macro perspective or the other way around. Simply enough, if a person does pick one over the other they are missing out important historical and biographic facts that is better to analyze the society in one piece. In Marx case he sees capitalism as the person biggest issue. He does not take time to express, self- analyzation. A person can easily, “I got fired, because I no longer producing enough product as before”. Whereas, for Mills he look to understand personal level for why that person got fired. When using Mills beliefs a person can come to their senses and say, “I was fired because I no longer try to put my best input when creating products. Maybe, I should find a career that fits my interest”. As showed, Mills not trying to blame one on down falls on society, first an individual need to look at themselves before attacking society structure. However, for Mills a person can look at society structure when there is more just few people going through same time for personal
Mills quote, “Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which the sociological imagination works is between ‘the personal troubles of milieu’ and the ‘public issues of social structure’ (Mills 1959: 3, 6, 8).” For Mills the sociological imagination is sociological tries …show more content…
Marx explains alienation in the work focus in four points, (1) product of human labor, (2) work itself (3) species being and (4) how in work environment react to each other. The Product of his labor is explain as workers are slaves to product they create. They are able to sell the product of their labor, but they do not own the product they create nor can they afford to buy this product. For example, an Apple factory worker but not being able to buy an iPhone although they are the ones to create it with their labor. Work itself is the condition of work environment that people are face with on a day to day bases. In work environment people are face doing the same line of work day in and day out. There is no sense of change, which leads the workplace to become boring. The workplace destroys anytime of creativity a person may have. Thus, this affects a person species being. One of what make us human for Marx is the ability to be creatives individuals, with the workplace stopping that process, we no longer using our full potential. The individual being is now become dehumanized by the workplace. The dehumanization led people to no longer look for social relationships in workplace. Individual sees each other as competition rather than someone they can depend on. It also hurts social relationship between the employee and the employer. The worker just see their boss as …show more content…
For Mills, one should cannot dismiss micro perspective for macro perspective or the other way around. Simply enough, if a person does pick one over the other they are missing out important historical and biographic facts that is better to analyze the society in one piece. In Marx case he sees capitalism as the person biggest issue. He does not take time to express, self- analyzation. A person can easily, “I got fired, because I no longer producing enough product as before”. Whereas, for Mills he look to understand personal level for why that person got fired. When using Mills beliefs a person can come to their senses and say, “I was fired because I no longer try to put my best input when creating products. Maybe, I should find a career that fits my interest”. As showed, Mills not trying to blame one on down falls on society, first an individual need to look at themselves before attacking society structure. However, for Mills a person can look at society structure when there is more just few people going through same time for personal