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Metropolis Film's Social Importance

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

Student Questions on Theory and History Answered

A paper consisting of ten pages and 3 sections answers various questions on French history, Karl Marx, and Jean Paul Sartre's hist...

Weber and Marx on Capitalism

hand, focuses on theories surrounding labor and alienation. Both have much to do with capitalism but each theorist treats the subj...

Karl Marx and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature

predicted in his Communist Manifesto that the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat would first succeed in a ...

Marxist Views on Continued Existence of the Prison System

the long haul. And while there is one way of viewing prisons, at least by the majority, there is another way of looking at it. The...

Marxist Perspective on Workplace Conflict

middle class can now drive BMWs through inexpensive leasing options, but the divide is still there. The middle class and lower cla...

Indian Politics and the Significance of Religion

With this, one may be critical of modern life (1008). Further, some thinkers look at Durkheims "social cement " and equate it wit...

Modern Society and Social Class

every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the...

Wealth and Poverty

anyone can do given a reasonable amount of training. Reich uses the example of AT&T and its phone assemblers. The company had a ...

Capitalism and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

Adam Smith and Karl Marx on Human Nature

living, they may be making a lot of money, but they are also spending a lot. Upon retirement, they can sell a home in the Northeas...

A Dialogue between Historical Theorists

This essay begins by describing the moral and political philosophies of John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Benito Mussolini...

How Companies Treat Employees

In 1867, Karl Marx wrote that all capitalists exploit their employees, that employees were just another commodity to them. Sadly, ...

Differing Opinions about Society

Karl Marx is known for his arguments against capitalism and how the elite exploit the weak. Durkheim is known for considering the ...

The Individual and Society: A Comparison of the Ideas of Burke, Mill and Marx

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

The “Communist Manifesto” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

Karl Marx and His Contributions

its paid wage- labourers" (p.21). One can see that this idea is timeless. Even in contemporary society, doctors have been reduced ...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Motivating Factors of Greed, Free Trade, and Profit

that people can earn money while being frugal at the same time. Webers argument concerning the origin of capitalism in his classic...

Union Labor Practices in Guatemala

laborer and the capitalist. Levenson-Estrada (1994) begins by talking about the 1940s and the labor movement to come about at t...

Rapid Change in Works by John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Mary Shelley

in which genetic information will be used by insurance companies and employers in order to discriminate. It is discrimination that...

Exchange Value and Use Value Differences

get $500 for it on the market as automobiles depreciate and this car is about 15 years old. However, the use value is much greater...

Capitalism and its Destruction

are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." It does seem to be the case that for example the Republican party in the Unit...

Max Weber's The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

in todays world (395). That phenomenon is by and large foreign to the lives of most (395). What the author explains is the desire ...

Property Rights and the Political Philosophy of John Locke

In order to explore his general theory, it pays to look at his Second Treatise of Civil Government. It is rather compelling and ...

History and the Philosophy of Karl Marx

It is further rather specific in that it notes particular parts of history which ultimately culminates in a state of communism (19...

Social Science and Religion

acquired even consciousness as well as to have facilitated cultural productions, but excepting religion (2002). Whether Darwins t...

Globalization, Social Stratification, and Theory

observed between blacks and mainstream society. What we are observing in modern day society in regard to the refusal of cer...

Comparing Socialism and Liberalism

to public hands which would be the beginning of communism. The Communist Manifesto was a statement on how capitalist society exis...

Religion and Sociological Theory

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...