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Oleh :
Dita Marselyna
Nurullita Addhyni
Siti Rabi Reski Tallama
Triastama Wiraatmaja
ORIGINS
Karl Marx(19th century): social conflict as the basis
interchangeably used.
When the Industrial Revolution, social and economy
TENETS
reality),
2. critical view of status quo
3. dynamic model of history change
(transformation of society)
Social Changes
Dialetical Model
Thesis - Antithesis
Synthesis
OFFSHOOTS
Marxism are widely used as an evident in communists & socialist systems
which represented in various ways.
Example:
a. W.E.B.DuBois : use marxist class consiousness to study racial inequality in
African American society.
Then he came up with a term named double consiousness entitled
right & freedom as Americans but denied as African
heritage caused
tension for African-Americans and
society(1st Amendment about
Equality)
b. Martin Luther King Jr. With the famous Civil Rights Movement
CRITIQUES
Conflict theory argues that just because some social
ADVANTAGES
Marx great contributions : praxis taken on
intellectual understanding.
(Intellectual : not only theorize but act on what
they believed).