Being all brilliant philosophers and sociologists, Marx, Weber, and Mitchell demonstrate specific understanding of the state. In fact, precisely these sociologists define political thought of modernism and influence the contemporary sociology greatly. Marx’s The Relation of State and Law to Property, Weber’s Politics as a Vocation, and Mitchell’s The Limits...

Marxism is one of the most influential ideologies across sociology and economics. Named for Karl Marx, it focuses on communism as an economic system and the capitalist issues of exploitation and class relationships (Levi, 1991). The Communist Manifesto is the primary text associated with Marxism and will be explored in...

 Sociologists analyze the phenomena that affect society. During these analyses, social phenomena shape generalizations of society as well as paradigms of social behavior. There are three main theoretical perspectives that conceptualize society, social forces, and human behavior. Symbolic interactionalism and Marxist sociology as conflict perspective offer theoretical paradigms and differently...

Locke and Hobbes agreed that a social contract is necessary to have anything resembling a civil society. Hobbes believed that human beings are not fundamentally different from non-human animals in terms of their motivations. This is one way to see why the social contract is necessary. Before human evolved there...

In the introductory essay, Karl Marx seems to make a comparison between wealth and capital which have a direct relation to an individual’s social standing (Longhofer & Winchester, 2016). This implies that the more wealth an individual accumulates; it suggests that they typically have better resources. Therefore, with the development...