Max Gerson

In analyzing the written works of Jane Addams’ Democracy and Social Ethics and Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The German Ideology, they portray how their theories can impact change within a society. While the basic structure and framework of society of society has remained consistent throughout, there are certain elements of society that are consistently subject to change. These authors address these changes as they pertain their theories to the functions of society…

Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim both introduce sociological theories that explain two different statuses of human beings in a society. Marx examines the condition of alienation or estrangement while Durkheim examines anomie. Both of these sociological terms can contribute negativity in a society but there are solutions for each feature. In Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx defined alienation as such “the worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more…

classes effect individuals. Emile Durkheim 1858-1917 was a functionalist who focused on industrialisation and the division of labour and their impact on social cohesion. Durkheim saw society as an organic model where all separate parts served a function. Max Weber 1864-1920 focused on secularisation and the effects of the individuals of rationalisation within society. He believed that people were trapped in an iron cage of…

who believed that men formed societies for strength; Rousseau who asserted that individuals possess instincts bringing them together; and Karl Max, who asserted that indicated that human beings struggled over a series of classes. More specifically, this paper focuses on Freud’s civilization in social contracts in relation to that of Rousseau and Karl Max. Freud followed that every situations created by the different desires which are prolonged, there is a creation of a feeling entailing mild…

Estrangement from Species Being Thus far we have examined the ways in which alienation and estrangement manifest themselves in the products of labour and the activity of labour itself. However, the third and arguably most nefarious type of estrangement, is the estrangement from species being. Marx succinctly describes the impacts of estranged labour on species being when he writes that estranged labour transforms, “Man’s species being, both nature and his spiritual species property, into a…

Agamben starts with two distinctions : zoe versus bios and oikos versus polis. Zoe refers to the form of life common to all living things, whereas bios refers to a form of life specific to an individual or groups. Agamben's second distinction runs in parallel: oikos is concerned with managing a household and household economics, whereas the polis is concerned with developing the good life. Agamben tells us that, starting with Aristotle and the Greeks, the Western polis was founded by relegating…

INTRODUCTION Sociological jurisprudence encompasses all the aspects of the interactions between law and society. There are innumerable connections between law and society: every branch of human learning, from physics, chemistry and medicine to philosophy, religion and psychology, produces knowledge about law and society. Sociology borrows from all these fields and sociological jurisprudence borrows form sociology. Of all the branches of learning, social sciences had the most influence, which…

productiveness of specialized tasks depends on how work is divided. Taylor has pioneered time-efficiency studies and his theory was then implemented in both the private and public sectors giving rise to modern bureaucratic administration. Unlike Taylor, Max Weber focused on understanding the bureaucratic structure’s potential on the influence on the human behavior. Although he acknowledged that bureaucracy is technical and very formal that compromises humanity and refers to it as a monstrous…

 A Science of Society  Comte’s goal was to – Explain the past – Predict the future  Social Physics He first named the new science “social physics.” He later changed this to “sociology.” The word comes from the Greek “soci” which means “society” and the Latin “ology” which means “study of.”  Sociology Like all science, Comte believed that this new science of society should be based on reasoning and observation.  Sociology Science attempted to explain all phenomena through theories based on…

Draft of Personal Statement My intended major is Sociology. My interest in Sociology developed when I took a course in Crime and Deviance and Introduction to Sociology during my junior year at Berkeley and Contra Costa City College. The fact that Sociology is applicable to everyday life from seemingly trivial to the utmost important issues is what fascinated me. I find I am able to use the information I have learned in Sociology in my day to day life and to better understand how individuals and…