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Max Weber And Karl Marx: The Social Nature Of Society

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Public life - an ongoing process activities and interaction of many human individuals. By creating a different kind of associations and groups, directing the individual efforts and cooperate to solve all kinds of problems, they form a unity in its society. This vision of society requires, on the one hand, the system characteristics of its most important elements: the subjects of human activity, spheres of human activity, specific means of human activity. On the other hand, requires an analysis of society as integrity, characteristics that cannot be reduced to the sum of the properties of the elements that constitute it. Initially, the concept of "society" meant community alliance cooperation (Latin socio - connect, join, joint work). The American …show more content…

2. Comparative analysis of the concept of society Based on the above, we try to generalize the concept of social scientists, and to find the total difference in the understanding of society. The idea of society as an objective reality, evolving in its immanent laws, was inherent in both Max Weber and Karl Marx. Marx viewed society as a particular social organism, as a special social form of motion of matter, subordinate its own laws of functioning and development. The basis of society is the individual, the person. The social nature of man, according to Marx, is that in its reality it is the ensemble of social relations. But society - it is not a mechanical accumulation of interacting individuals. Specificity of society as a social reality is that society expresses the sum of the connections and relationships in which these individuals are to each other. Thus, in the interpretation of Marx, society is a system of connections and relationships between individuals, resulting in the normal course of business and, above all, employment. Society does not consist of individuals and expresses the sum of the connections and relationships in which these individuals are to each other, - he wrote. Society, in his understanding - it is a product of human interaction, and the people are not free to choose this or that form of

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