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Marx and Weber - Views on Society


While, on feudal or estate property form of ownership, the production of labour is determine by the sparseness of the population at that point, which is consider to be very different from tribal type ownership.Since feudalism is still developing from town and its little territories to one large entity, Marx claims that, "definite individuals who are productively active in a definite way, enter into these definite social and political relations" (Marx 154) in this ownership. These individuals work and manufacture commodities "under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will" (Marx, 154). Hence, feudal ownership is perceives as "The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life". Marx describes that this form of ownership is more systematize because"Men are the producers of the idea, conceptions, etc.-real, active men, as they are condition by a definite development of their productive forces and of the intercourse corresponding to these, up to its furthest form" (Marx, 154).
             Meanwhile, Weber's concept of society is more diverge than Marx's views on society. Weber thinks that everything in a society relates to the cause and effect in the social realm by human behaviours. In Selected Translation, Weber claims that sociology is "a word which is used in many different senses" and "it means the science whose object is to interpret the meaning of social action and thereby give a casual explanation of the way which the action proceeds and the effects which it produces" (Weber, 7). He further explains that "By 'action' is defined as when and to the extent that the agents or agents see human behaviour as subjectively meaningful. Also, Weber then describes 'social' action as an action in which the meaning intended by the agent or agents involves a relation to another person's behaviour and in which that the relation determines the way which the actions proceeds" (Weber, 7).


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