Marxian Conflict Theory Analysis

James H. Jones authored the book Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. The Tuskegee Syphilis experiment was a study of 600 African American males that started in 1932 and ended in 1972 (Jones, 1993, p. 1) The study was not beneficial. This paper will summarize the book Bad Blood as well as address theoretical perspectives, methodology, and ethics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

Poverty is a worldwide issue. With emphasis on poverty in third world countries like Africa, Haiti, etc. Citizens of Brevard County tend to overlook how poverty is happening in our own back yards. My social issue is about poverty in Brevard County and I aim to bring awareness to this terrible situation. Poverty as defined by Wikipedia “is general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.” According to “Brevard County Income and Careers,” 12.51% of Brevard County’s population is living in poverty. Seminole County, a neighbor to Brevard has 10.78% of their population living in poverty. As you can see the percent of population in poverty in Brevard

Conflict Theory/pg.27: a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources.

Social conflict theory is based on the idea of that there are different social classes within any society. The classes make up two groups. Those groups consist of the wealthy and the poor. Basically the theory says the rich uses their power and supremacy to oppress the poor and keep them poor. Often this form control is enforced by savagely violent methods. Although there are times that the power money brings is used. Money is also believed to be the source of social disorder.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Marx, Engels, 1888, p.80)

The functionalist theory shows it is necessary that the society inequality in a society. It is a system that the inequality is one of the roles for the functional society, and the society as a mixed system whose parts work together to promote cohesion and stability. Similarly, the theory indicates the poor people play the central roles in the society. The author uses examples to illustrate her purpose. For example the poor people do the dirty works that we do not want to do. The author further stated that an inevitable connection between different income and status, and it was more able to show the inequality exists in this functionalist society. The author goes on to say that the conflict theory found by Karl Marx, which more pay attention to the inequality between the upper and lower groups, and it is deep-rooted. The rich will creates the environment that favors them, and the situation is adverse to the poor.

Aldous Huxley connects his book, Brave New World, to Karl Marx’s principles. Karl Marx is a German philosopher that the class differences in society. He studied most specifically class differences, economic differences, cultural differences. Marx states that “The separate individuals form a class only insofar as they have to carry on a common battle against another class; otherwise they are on hostile terms with each other as competitors.”(Karl Marx) Marx believes that class conflict and difference is inevitable. However, in Brave New World, the class are separated to Alphas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons. In this society, each class is conditioned differently. They are socially conditioned to be a functional society, where

Karl Marx explains that man is a "species-being", one who can create his own species but also a species that considers himself to be free (Marx 1994, 63). This idea of man being free is further drawn into life activity. Marx explains that within life activity lies the essence of a species-a "species-character" as he calls it. According to Marx's explanation, a man's species-character is free conscious activity (63). However, the presence of the capitalist mode of production leads into "alienated labour" which presents a challenge to man's species-character.

In sociology, the theories we are provided with allows us to view the world we live in today from different perspectives. A theory is defined as a group of general propositions that are tested and usually used as a tool for either an explanation or a prediction. The main three theories found in sociology makes it easier for us to understand and it also provides us with understndable reasoning on the behavior occuring in our sociey and why they happen. The classical theoretical frameworks consist of conflict, functionalism, and symbolic theory. In my short essay I will be going in depth on what and how conflict & functionalism theories can be used to explain the social context in which we live.

Sometime in the night of 6 April 1994, an incredible incident happened in Rwanda; the plane flying both the Rwandan President, Juvénal Habyarimana, who was from the majority Hutu and his Hutu president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, the two presidents died as well as every other person on the plane. Responsibility for the attack was disputed, with both the RPF and Hutu extremists being blamed. This assassination set off a violent reaction, resulting in the Hutus ' conducting mass killings of Tutsis and pro-peace Hutus, who were portrayed as "traitors" and "collaborationists". This was the beginning of the popular

The fields of knowledge that study the individuals and society can be defined as social science, which has been referred as an umbrella term which consists of the outside of nature science.

The essay focuses on two different sections. The first part of the essay is will discuss the central arguments about knowledge made by Marx and critical theorist, with close attention to its relationship based on the exploitation or oppression that exists in the society and the relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

Marxist Politics – Introduction Frederick Engels painted a clear picture of Marxist politics and the ultimate reason for revolution, “the State is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another.”1 In Marxism, the struggle to control the forces of production is the dynamic force behind human development. The economic system determines other features of a society, including its political structure. To Karl Marx, the “economic structure of society [is] the real foundation on which rise moral, legal and political superstructures and to which definite forms of social consciousness correspond.” 2 Thus, to a Marxist, particular political systems are grounded in and arise from particular economic systems. A socialist economy,

order affected the individual lives and left them with despair. Not only Salim and Ferdinand but the all young boys and businessmen met with the tragic end. The society again would have to start itself from the beginning after these feuds.

Concerns of economic marginalisation arose due to issues relating to the access to available water and grazing land. The western region of Darfur faced heavy drought in the 1970s. In the bid to secure water and grazing land the Arab nomads attacked the settled farmers. Their actions served to economically shift the balance of life between the nomadic Arabic tribes(pastoralists) and settled farmers. The latter therefore effectively became marginalised.