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Marxist sociology refers to the application of
The foundational basis of Marxist sociology is the investigation of capitalist
Concepts and issues
Marxist sociology is primarily concerned with, but not limited to, the relations between society and economics.
Key questions asked by Marxist sociologists include:[1]
- How does capital control workers?
- How does a mode of production influence the social class?
- What is the relation between workers, capital, the state and culture?
- How do economic factors influence inequalities such as those relating to race?
- What role do police play within Marxist socialism?
Within
The study of "socio-nature" emerged from this line of thought. Socio-nature is "a concept that is used to argue that society and nature are inseparable and should not be analyzed in abstraction from each other."[5]
Historical development
Influenced by the thought of
Much of the development in the field occurred on the outskirts of academia, pitting Marxist against "
- Marxist-Leninist school that developed under 20th-century Communism (primarily the Soviet Union) to serve state interests. The school was heavily influenced by Marx's theory of historical materialism.
- Western Marxism: a Marxist school centered on the studies of Marxism in the West. It would become accepted within Western academia during the 1940s, and would subsequently fracture into several different perspectives, such as the Frankfurt School (critical theory)
Due to its former state-supported position, there has been a backlash against Marxist thought in
List of Marxist sociologists
- Benedict Anderson
- Perry Anderson
- Giovanni Arrighi
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Himani Bannerji
- Michael Burawoy
- Simon Clarke
- Oliver Cox
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- John Bellamy Foster
- Paulo Freire
- Erich Fromm
- Antonio Gramsci
- Stuart Hall
- John Holloway
- Max Horkheimer
- Bob Jessop
- Boris Kagarlitsky
- Henri Lefebvre
- Marcel Liebman
- Michael Löwy
- Maria Mies
- Robert Miles
- Ralph Miliband
- Antonio Negri
- Evgeny Pashukanis
- Nicos Poulantzas
- Gillian Rose
- Göran Therborn
- Lise Vogel
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Erik Olin Wright
References
- ^ ISBN 0-631-21681-2.
- ^ Macmillan Reference.
- ^ a b Jipson, Art. 2013. "About the Section on Marxist Sociology." American Sociological Association. Retrieved on April 21, 2020. Archived 2009-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 9781786630148.
- ISBN 978-0-470-65963-2, retrieved 2021-08-06
- ISBN 0-631-18082-6. p. 505–08.
Further reading
- Tom B. Bottomore, Marxist sociology, Macmillan, 1975
- Martin Shaw, Marxist sociology revisited: critical assessments, Macmillan, 1985
External links
- ASA section on Marxist sociology
- About the Section on Marxist Sociology
- Lucien Goldmann, Is There a Marxist Sociology?, International Socialism, Autumn 1968