SOCIOL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Science, Feudalism, Nomothetic
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Marx can sometimes be looked at simply as a, social scientist or a political activist. Marx said that politics and the world are linked. This might mean that his ideology has a social bias. Marx thought he was producing a neutral science and way of looking at the world. Some people are that his theory is biased because it"s political, but the profess that it"s not, he thinks marx is unbiased. What we should be paying attention to is marx putting the relationship between ma. Pay attention of what"s going on in feudalism, socialism, capitalis. Weber liked to separate sociology as a science and sociology as politics. He"s responding to marx, and replying to marx. Sociology as a science focuses on theory and sociology as politics focuses on repre reality. In order to understand science we have to do what c. wright mills: bring together t historical and biographical.
