Max the Mighty

Sociology is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture (Craig Calhoun (Editor). 2002, Dictionary of the Social Sciences). This discipline, which we were introduced to in High School, was presented to us as emanating from Western Europe. However, due to enhanced knowledge we have come to realized that sociological thoughts can be traced back to the continent of Africa. Noteworthy, to this discussion we can look at the…

Social theory involves ideas about the changes and developments within society. These ideas can be multidisciplinary ranging from anthropology to law. The Social theories involved are analytic structures or models used to examine social occurrences. It is during the 19th century that the three great classical theories of social and historical change became evident. The social cycle theory, the social evolutionism theory and the Marxist historical materialism theory. The majority of social…

Functionalism for a number of years was the prevailing sociological theory, particularly in the work of Robert Merton, Talcott Parsons and their followers and students. The 1940’s and 1950’s were the years of dominance of functionalism and somewhat paradoxically the beginning of a great decline in its importance too. During these years Parsons produced his major statements which confirmed his shift from action theory to functionalism (Wearne, 2013). Students of Parsons began to emerge and were…

Luu La Sociology 1020-70 Health and Society Essay Sociological imagination is a theory which is developed by a sociologist named C.Wright Mills. Sociological imagination is the relationship between one’s personal experience and the society that he or she lives in. In another word, it is the effect that one person in a society has upon the whole society itself. I am Vietnamese and being raised in an Asian family has a lot of effects on my health outcomes. I was born and raised in Vietnam so…

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…