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Assess the merits and limitations of the ideas of Karl Marx
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Assess the merits and limitations of the ideas of Karl Marx Marxism, or scientific socialism as it is also known, became particularly popular during the 1970s as the realisation that functionalism was flawed became apparent, as it regarded stratification as a divisive rather than an integrative structure. It takes its name from the founder Karl Marx (1818-1883), and centres around the grand theory that 'Capitalist society creates class inequalities and alienation, which can only be removed through the revolutionary actions of the working class'. Surrounded by both support and critique, Marx has provided influence within politics and economics and an opposing argument to both Functionalism and Weberism as a sociological perspective. Marx noted that in order to survive we enter relationships in order to ensure production - The forces of production and the relations of production, which together form the economic basic or infrastructure of society. The other aspect of society, known...
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