marxism

Question 1

marx on value free

Answer 1

-favoured scientific, objective, value free approaches

Question 2

marx on value laden

Answer 2

-He did talk abt values, making his views value laden & non-scientific
-values the strengths of communism, but this isn’t a value free approach

Question 3

Marxists on social policy

Answer 3

-it is the job of sociology to transform society by producing diff social policies

Question 4

Policies avoiding class consciousness

Answer 4

-policies which appear to benefit the poor are only tokens to reduce class consciousness, they aren’t fundamental changes

Question 5

effect of marxism on policies

Answer 5

-very little influence in the UK as are seen as too extreme
-Jeremy Corbyn did put some marxist ideas into politics
-widely critiques and is unlikely that a revolution will occur