Category: Political Sociology

  • An Interview with Dr. Noel Packard – Karl Marx and Max Weber on Machines Dominating Labour

    In this interview, we speak with Dr. Noel Packard, independent researcher and session organizer of “Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour,” a call for papers featured on the Sociology Group website. Dr. Packard discusses how Karl Marx’s idea of the self-reproducing machine and Max Weber’s notion of the “Machine…

  • Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction by Paul Robbins (Study Notes)

    Ecology refers to the relationship between the human beings and their physical world or surroundings. Robbins inscribes about political ecology through an instance of East Africa. The ecology of East Africa is beautiful and on the same hand important. The flora and fauna (lions, hyenas, baboons etc.) gives the natives as well as the other…

  • Karl Marx: Biography, Works, Contributions, Criticisms, and Beliefs

    Karl Marx: Although Sociology as a discipline emerged much after Karl Marx’s death, and he had no connection to the subject matter itself, Marx has been assigned the status of a classical thinker in Sociology, and his theories continue to be examined and analyzed voraciously by sociologists and students of sociology. This article provides an…

  • What is Communism in Simple words? All you need to know

    In this essay, we will go over Marx’s theory of the rise of communism, its characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages, and how some countries around the world have adapted to it. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher and a pivotal figure in economic thought history. With the arrival of the industrial revolution and its…

  • Dependency Theory: Definition, Approaches, Examples, limitations

    Dependency theory is a school of thought in modern social science that aims to comprehend underdevelopment, analyse its origins, and to some extent, provide ways to overcome it. It first appeared in Latin America in the 1960s, quickly moved to North America, Europe, and Africa, and is still relevant in today’s debates. It also gained…

  • Whether the state is correct in issuing Capital Punishment?

    Capital punishment also called the death sentence is a process in which the state uses its power to condemn the actions of the convict by sentencing them to death. The first recorded instance being that of Hammurabi in the 18th Century B.C. Throughout history, the state has used capital punishment for a variety of crimes,…

  • W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk – Veil and Doule Consciousness

    In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, explain how his use of the concepts of ‘veil’ and ‘double consciousness’ help to explain that race and the marginalization of African Americans is a socially constructed narrative? (7.5 marks, 800-900 words) The Souls of Black Folk, is a seminal work by African-American Sociologist…