Sociological Contribution of Karl Marx Essay

His real name was James Gatz. But he had a dream and ambitions of breaking free from the place he was born into. He created a new name for himself that reflected his true self identity. When a rich man Mr. Dan Cody on the yacht stopped at the bay, James warned him of the upcoming wind that would break soon. Mr. Dan Cody saw this young ambitious boy and asked his name and that’s how Jay Gatsby was born. A few years later, Gatsby appears as a very rich and lavish man who is having parties’ every…

Marx uses these points to explain how free market capitalism causes this estranged labor. He says that this type of economical and political system causes people to be alienated from “the product…from species-being…from other human beings…in productivity work” (Wolf 2003). He uses this theory to show us the effects that a capitalist society could have on all aspects of a human, his physical ability, his mental capacity, his social life and the obvious economic life. Marx adds to this bashes…

I was born in the city of Trier in Germany on May 5th 1818. I attended the University of Bonn at the age of 17 with the idea that I would study law, seeing as my father was a lawyer. I began to form relations with Jenny von Westphalen, who would later become my wife. Her father, whom I looked up to, heavily influenced me in the realms of politics as well as literature. My father moved me out of the University of Bonn to the University of Berlin, where I began to focus on Hegelianism. The…

The individualism of a person is defined within his/her social class. In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a utopian society that is constructed within social classes that gives an individual all the power or none at all. Huxley then presents the theory of Marxism, where the class struggle is nothing less, but the backbone of an individual’s social status and where they stand in society. Huxley’s text clearly is based on the realism of social class structure and ideology where the…

This paper will argue that Karl Marx and Jean-Luc Nancy have distinct theories about religion and god. I will be examining the text, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx, and God, Justice, Love, Beauty by Jean-Luc Nancy. First of all, I will be defining the three types of alienation theorized by Karl Marx, object alienation, subject alienation, and species alienation. Moreover I will expound Marx’s argument about religion and how it connects to alienation. In addition to…

a consequence of the rearrangement of anything that was formerly quasi-monopolies from central districts, manufacturing progressions to semiperipheral manufacturing developments which encourage a pseudo-dominations on the marketplace (Scott and Edles, 2008: 764-765). They are capable to yield wide-ranging money, which can point to rising occupation, greater incomes, and a universal increase of a world-economy (Scott and Edles, 2008: 764-765). Additional businesses enter the marketplace and…

Iguala Student Protests and Socialism in Mexico Kanon Hewitt POLI100-228 Introduction to Politics Chris Erickson Miaofeng Zhang  The student protest of discriminatory hiring practices in the Mexican education system was inspired by revolutionist socialist ideology seen during the Cuban Revolution. The subsequent massacre of the protesting students serves as a chilling reminder that socialism has not yet succeeded in the state. The corruption of the local government as well as recent Mexican…

What is the purpose of government? Is there an ideal organizational structure that a country could employ to ensure that a government serves its people to the best of its ability? Karl Marx and Max Weber, like others before and after them, both strove to help answer these questions. Although one could argue that we may never find a “perfect” system of government, both men presented new ways of thinking that continue to influence society today. Before one can begin analyzing the details of…

Sociological concepts are portrayed throughout many films of the American culture today, as they may be analyzed to view social theories that are included in them as the societies in the movie comes to a common goal. Many theories can be seen in the movie The Hunger Games: Catching Fire exceptionally clear in many ways as the whole society lives with scarce supplies as the government lives in supreme wealth and comfort. Specifically the sociological theory of conflict can be viewed as the plot…

Winners and losers A capitalist society is based on the idea that you can’t get ahead in life without stepping on someone else’s back. In Ursula Le Guin’s story “The ones who walk away from Omelas”, written in 1973, show a society where everyone is happy and full of life. This town is an almost utopian society when the story begins. Children are running and playing, and the narrator talks about how great the city is. However, the city is not as good as it seems. This is because the source of…