Sociology 2 Marks Question

Karl Marx has absolutely ignored the middle class. Middle class has a great importance in modern society especially that society which can be called the supreme capitalist society. The class struggle cannot be accepted as constructive. Hence, it is always destructive and it leads to fascism which any society is unable to bear.

According to Marx, Bourgeoisie are those few people who own the means of production in a capitalist society. They enjoy both economic and political power.

Social facts are those ways of working, thinking and feeling which are exterior to man and which controls the man by their power of constraints.

Social facts are those ways of thinking, doing work and feel which has the special characteristics to maintain its existence exterior to the individual consciousness. Durkheim also writes, “Social facts are those ways of working, thinking and feeling which are exterior to man and which controls the man by their power of constraint".

The sacred is that which is considered holy and dreaded. It includes religious beliefs and rites, duties or anything related to religious treatment par excellence. The profane relates to the ordinary, utalitarian aspects of life, dull or routine, full of impurity.

Emile Durkheim is one of the 'key classical theorists in sociology'. He is best known for founding sociology as a scientific discipline and for defining the boundaries of its subject matter. His key theoretical statement lies in his claim that social phenomena are realities that can only be explained by other social facts.

The term 'surplus value' refers to the quality of value produced by the worker beyond the necessary labour time, i.e., the marking time required to produce a value equal to the one he has received in the form of wages.