Max Beckmann

Violence, an integral part of modern society, constitutes the lives of individuals that lead to reactions in the sociological perspective. In terms of sociology, violence grasps the control one’s realities. Sociological impact of violence is so intertwined with side factors that individual get derailed in conducts transforming personalities, emotions, thoughts, world views. This study deals with violence in the sociological view and its implications as depicted in Conrad’s The Secret Agent.…

“Stranger in the Village” by James Baldwin explores the ideas of racism in earlier and present societies. This topic is of current interest, especially in today’s time; America and other nations are presently partaking in many social and racial justice movements. Baldwin opens his story by describing the first time he went to a small village in Switzerland. Due to the town’s inaccessibility, a person with black skin had never set foot in this remote village before, so Baldwin became a spectacle…

The book “Brave new world” written by Aldous Huxley and the “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” written by the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. Are two ideologies that give philosophical concepts concerning the government in the society. Brave new world antedates improvement in the current use of human technology in reproduction, psychosomatic influence and classical acclimatization to bring a change in society. Althusser's Marxism focuses on false conscious ideas in the…

Edward A. Ross was widely regarded as one of the founders of sociology in the United States. Ross believed that sociology was a tool we could use to solve the problems of humanity. While he was studying sociology, Ross came to the conclusion that humans were social creatures and that through understanding human nature, we could create a peaceful and flourishing society. His work through sociology let him become established as a progressive figure. Furthermore, in his paper titled, American and…

In Between: An examination of three anthropologists’ moments of liminality Liminality is a term used in anthropology to describe a period of transition concerning social structure and understanding. Liminality consists of a pre-liminal state, a liminal period, and a communitas state. The pre-liminal state is characteristically defined as a time when events occur under specific conditions that start to press against an individual’s normal social structure and thought process. The liminal period…

According to introduction to Sociology 2e a bureaucracy is “Formal organizations characterized by a hierarchy authority, a clear division of labor, explicit rules and impersonality. “ Max Weber said that a bureaucracy normally would have four definite characteristics. Hierarchy of Authority, a clear division of labor, explicit rules, and impersonality. Some people say that companies like General Motors, Amazon, and Facebook are bureaucracies. Let’s explore this proposition. I think that they…

Introduction This essay wishes to examine to what extent are planners utopian and how has utopian planning varied over time. It will begin by taking a look at the development of utopianism over time. Next, it will examine how utopian thinking was brought into planning and its social background. Then, by looking at how utopian ideas were developed and manifested in cities, readers can have a clear understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of utopian planning and how it has influenced our…

Abstract How does society cohesively with so many intricate, unique, pieces? Durkheim provokes thought in his thesis on social solidarity. Through his ideology, we are ask to consider all that is attached with life as we know it. From the regulations and control, to the stability we need to maintain it. Durkheim allows us to look at social solidarity as a gift to be explained rather than something unappreciated and taken for granted. Durkheim’s Thesis Social Solidarity Social Solidarity and…

In Three Stages in Marx’s Thought, Wolfson will attempt to argue that Marx put forward “three disjoint but internally coherent philosophical and social systems of thought” (291). In Marx the Individualist, Wolfson lays out the first system of thought. Marx starts with the axiom that “legitimacy flow from the people to the state” (296). Because of this, the state is the product of active subjects. For this reason, a state should be democratic with elected legislature (296). Marx reasons with…

In Hitler’s Ideology, the goal of psychoanalytic sociology, according to Koenigsberg, is to understand the psychological roots of cultural ideas, beliefs, and values as they have been embodied in the central ideologies of civilized societies. He uses Hitler as a case study for this science to examine the relationship between belief and phantasy. He picked Hitler for a variety of reasons. First, Hitler possessed a constant and consistent belief system. Second, his speeches and writings contain…