theoretical essay

TITLE

COMPARE and CONTRAST karl marx`s concept of `alienation` and emile durkheim`s concept of `anomie .`

ABSTRACT

Karl Marx 's alienation has many similarities with the Anomie of Emilie Durkheim . The top two similarities are listed below . On the other side , Karl Marx and Emilie Durkheim also have differences between each other . The top two differences are shown below . Karl Marx states that the worker is not the owner of the product that he or she produces Thus , Karl Marx advocates communism to remove the capitalists and put the properties

in the such managers . Anomie states that some people prefer to commit suicide in to get out of their misery . Had they waited , both of these concepts glaringly relate the individual to society on one level beyond material well-being . And , the two terms are simply two labels for the same thing . This thing is called the oppressive and greater social pressure of the capitalist society prevailing in both Emilie Durkheim 's time and during Karl Marx 's time

INTRODUCTION

Karl Marx had made many sociological masterpieces . One of which is his theory of alienation . This theory of alienation plus other Karl Marx masterpieces were used as the basis for launching communism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China , as well as many countries of the world . Emilie Durkheim presented many sociological masterpieces One famous piece is the anomie which shows her deep research activities Anomie will also be deeply discussed in the next paragraphs

BODY

COMPARE (Similarity ) Karl Marx`s concept of `alienation` and Emile Durkheim`s concept of `anomie .`

The similarities between Karl Marx 's concept of alienation and Emile Durkheim 's

Concept of Anomie is that both show that a person is not happy with his or her current state in society . In Karl Marx 's alienation , some workers are unhappy producing goods that they will have to part with For , these goods are the properties of the capitalist who has hired him for the job . Likewise , Emilie Durkheim 's Anomie (Daly , 1994 ) person is also unhappy . He or she is unhappy with the people around him . Also Emilie Durkheim does not enter the realm of psychology to try to offer solutions to lessen the unhappy person 's picked alternative which is to take his or her own life

Emilie Durkheim just states the fact that , indeed , there are persons who prefer to take out his or her own life to end it all

Another similarity is that the persons in both Karl Marx 's concept of alienation and Emile Durkheim 's concept of Anomie feel that the person wishes that one day they this sad situation would end . This is actually what happened to Russia where the workers took up arms to drive away or even kill the capitalists . After , the workers distributed the properties among themselves . Meanwhile , Emilie Durkheim 's person sees that the only solution to his or her prolong suffering and misfortune is to snap out one 's own life

CONTRAST (Difference...