Compare And Contrast Marx + Weber Flashcards
What Do Forces Of Production Consist Of? (M)
Means Of Production And Human Behaviour
(M) What Is Class In Society Divided Into ?
Proletariat And Bourgeoisie
What Does Marx Mean When He Says Classes Are Exploitative?? (M)
He Means The Surplus Value Can Be Exploited
Explain What Marx Means By Surplus Values?
Values Created By Human Labour Power After Its Reprodction Has Been Ensured
Bourgeoise Exploit Surplus Value From Exploited Class
Give A Example Of Surplus Values Being Exploited ?
When Mode Of Production Is Run By Capitalist. The Exploiting Class Is Bourgeoise and The Exploited Class Is The Proletariat
Give An Example When A Group Has Tried Social Change (M)
When We Move From One Mode Of Production Through Violent Social Action.
The English Civil War
Explain What Urbanisation Does (M)
Growth Of Urban Populations In A Capitalist Society Create A Shared Conscioussness By Workers
Criticism Of Marx??
Unfalsfiable - More Of A Ideology Cannot Be Scientifictly Proven
De-Skilling - Marx Forgets About New Skills That Have Come Around.
There Has Never Been A Revolution In A Advanced Industrial Society
Similarities Of Marx And Weber ?
Both Emphasise Conflict And Power
Both Offer Theories Of Class
Both Care About Capitalism Origins
Where Does Weber Say Capitalism Derived From?
Religious Ideas Such As Calvinism Created Capitalism
Explain Webers Correlation Or Protestants And Capitalism m
Protestants are always involved in business and improving there economic conditions
What Do Calvinist Believe In?
Predestination - that god has already determined who is saved and damned. So they need to value profit to get on gods good side
How Does Power And Domination Link To Class ? (W)
Power gives you ability to realise what youbneed to do to gain economic power. You will be able to improve your position
What Does Weber Privalge That Marx Doesn’t?
Possession Of Property
That defines the main Class difference between people. Owners of property’s have higher advantage as they have access to sources of wealth
Marx Doesn’t see this as important
Differences Between Marx And Weber
Weber uses history so it’s less deterministic
Weber shows that history can be influenced by random events
Weber realises that not only economic forces bring about change
