Sociological Imagination is the ability to situate an individual's dilemma and life trajectories within an informed framework of social processes. It is important to note that Marxism ideas have been central to the development of the modern sociology. The sociological concepts are useful in analyzing the social phenomenon. Karl Marx...

Power and control appear to be everywhere but this does not mean that the power cannot be a positive drive or that the control is completely limiting. For example, without power and control, there would be no form of civilization and therefore it would be difficult to find a way...

1) Marx and Engels paint an unhappy picture of nineteenth century capitalism. In describing the exploitation of workers they stated “What, therefore, the wage-laborer appropriates by means of his labor merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence” (Marx & Engels, 1). Workers devoted to their lives and time...

The notion of a contract is one which is vital for Marx's thinking regarding the nature of bourgeois society and the capitalist mode of production. The following paper will explore Marx's understanding of the contract in two key ways. The first will be to explain how the contract functions in...

Marx: I believe you will agree with me Mills, that progress is possible, but only if the proletariat can succeed. This unfortunately, must come at the expense of capitalism as a system that oppresses them (Slaughter, 1975). Mills: I agree with you Marx, that progress is possible, but only if...