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KARL
MARX
By: Jennifer Jhung
BACKGROUND
• Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5th, 1818 – March 14th, 1883)
was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist,
historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
• Ideas played a significant role in the development
of social science and the socialist political
movement
• Studied at the University of Bonn and the University
of Berlin
BACKGROUND CON’T
• Marx progressed to journalism in October 1842 and
became editor in Cologne
• Marx met his wife, Jenny Von Westphalen, at the
University of Bonn
• After his studies he moved to Paris with his wife
• Worked with fellow German revolutionary socialist,
Friedrich Engels, whom he met in Paris
THEORIES
CONFLICT THEORY
• an interdisciplinary sociological and political theory
that looks at how societies are held together by
power, not by individuals and groups needing and
depending on each other
THEORY OF ALIENATION
• Separation from which is desired or desirable
• Separation of things that naturally belong together,
THEORIES CON’T
MARXISM
• Economic and sociopolitical worldview and method
of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a
materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical
view of social change, and an analysis and critique
of the development of capitalism
CONFLICT THEORY
• Two basic groups of people within society – the
wealthy and the poor
• Looks at what happens when groups attempt to
rebel
• Roles a group or people or an individual has over
others
• Way to study social control that the rich have over
the masses
• An organization or society only functions when
trying to better their social situation
THEORY OF ALIENATION
• Alienation is a systemic result of capitalism
• Workers lose determination of their lives and
destinies by being deprived of the right to think of
themselves as the director of their actions
• Workers become self-realized human beings, but
are encouraged into goals and activities dictated
by the bourgeoisie
MARXISM
• Founded in the early to mid 19th century by Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels
• Encompasses Marxian economic Theory
• A sociological theory and a revolutionary view of
social change that influenced worldwide political
movements
IMPORTANCE OF MARX
• Recognized that classes existed because of bound
up modes of production or economic structure
• The proletariat has a potential leading to the
abolition of all classes
• “the history of all existing society is a history of class
struggle”
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