Unit 5: Karl Marx on Class, Politics and Ideology (Monday, Oct. 7th)

Karl Marx was a 19th century sociologist, philosopher and political economist who suggested a theory explaining the conflict between capital and labour, and the role of classes in the state.

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Carl Cuneo, "Karl Marx", pp. 112-116 in "Chapter 6, "Class Structure and Process", Peter Li and B. Singh Bolaria (eds.), Contemporary Sociology: Critical Perspectives, Toronto: Copp-Clark Pittman, 1993.

Ed Grabb, "Chapter 2: Karl Marx and the Theory of Class", in Theories of Social Inequality. 3rd ed. 1996.

Bertell Ollman, "Marx's Use of Class", Vol 73, No. 5, 1968, American Journal of Sociology. Pp. 573-580.

Bertell Ollman, "Toward Class Consciousness Next Time: Marx and the Working Class", Politics and Society. 3 (1), 1972, pp. 1-24.

Ralph Miliband, Chapter Two: Class and Class Conflict", Pp. 17-42 in his Marxism and Politics, Oxford University Press, 1977.

Frank Park, Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique. London: Tavistock, 1979

• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: The Boundary Problem in Marxism and Sociology
• Chapter Three: Internal Class Cleavages and the Ethnic Factor (see also last unit of course on ethnicity)

Notes on these readings are available in this web site, and in LearnLink

Questions on Marx