Max Baer

This essay will explain both modernization and dependency theories by highlighting some significant forces and values and evaluate both strengths and weaknesses of the two theories. Modernization theory can be defined as a system of ideas intended to explain the process of development within the context of societies. The theory refers to a model of transition from poor countries countries to rich countries. The theory’s center of interest is on the conversion of institutional structure in terms…

2. The (Critical) Concept of Alienation The place the theory of alienation occupies within the philosophy of Karl Marx is problematic. Its importance is widely recognised. The concrete modality in which it affects the critique of the political economy remains, however, shrouded by presuppositions. Undoubtedly, as influential as Marx’s writing where from a historical-ideatic point of view, as much they were propagated, especially in the Eastern European space, through the filter of a flawed…

Structural functionalism is a concept that essentially believes that every part of society harmoniously works together with the rest to form equilibrium. Structural functionalists, Talcott Parsons, Herber Spencer and Emile Durkheim all utilise organic analogy, in which they liken the structures of modern society to the workings of a living organism. (B. (2016, May 26). It is also used to explain the idea of division of labour. Division of labour is the notion where tasks are divided among…

2.1.1.1 Mannheim’s theory of generations. Mannheims’s 1923 (republished in 1952) essay ‘The Problem of Generations’ has often described as the seminal theoretical treatment of generations and is widely regarded as the most systematic and fully developed treatment of generation from a sociological perspective. Mannheim was mainly concerned with examining social location in terms of class factors, as for him, generation is treated as being similar to the class position of an individual in society…

DURKHEIM’S VIEW ON WORK 1. Introduction. An advocate for social solidarity and communal living is the kind of sociologist Emile Durkheim was. For instance, with a concept like suicide, he was more concerned with the “individual’s integration into a community’’ rather than the mere reference to the mental state of the individual (Watson, 2003: 280). Durkheim was a great sociologist who wrote influential works, one of which was called The Division of Labour in Society. He wrote a book on this in…

Interplay between Hegelian Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism G.W.F. Hegel proposed that “dialectic” concerned itself with the process which went into knowing the “whole” of anything. Hegel equated “whole” with “totality”. According to him, only the whole is true. The whole is composed of moments that are partial wholes. The relationship that existed between these partial wholes is of prime importance. The whole contains within itself all the moments that it has overcome. Basically,…

Giddens definition of power is “transformative capacity”, which refers to the ability in making a difference in the world. An individual makes a difference when he or she carries out a social action with intention. He states that everyone has power since we all carry out social actions, but the amount of power that a person has is interconnected with “resources”. He believes there are two types of resources: allocative and authoritative. Allocative recourses are physical things that you can…

Charles Mills was an influential philosopher who focused on the social contract in which he referred it to be the racial or the domination contract. Charles Mills used the domination contract as an outline of racial inequality and white supremacy. I agree with Mills as he identifies the problem in a society and recognizes that the foundation of modern social organization is built on the European expansion, colonization and other forms of white domination. An example relevant to the racial…

Question or obey? The word authority stands for the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. In the persuasion world, that definition translates into three symbols: titles, clothing and trapping. Titles refers to r or Professor, clothing to a police uniform or an army greens and trapping to any object that the person owns. In this paper, I will provide four different examples of authority, when I used those symbols to have someone comply with me or when someone uses…

Liberalism, conservatism and socialism are different ideological families that include many concepts, ideas, and thoughts. Michael Freeden has came up with four features of ideologies which could be used to analysis these ideological families. These features are proximity, priority, permeability and proportionality. Each of them could explain some aspects of each ideological family. First of all, “proximity” means that the political concepts only make sense when they are within a particular…