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Karl Marx Conflict Theory
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Social Work 3510- Human Behavior in Social Enviornment
Created By: Mia Foote
Who is Karl Marx ?
Karl Marx Conflict Theory
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Background
Philosopher
Social Scientist
Born in Germany
DOB: May 5th 1818
DOD: March 14,1883
Marx's fatehr was a very educated man, because of of this his fatehr taqught Karl great pieces of literature , furthering his education and inspiring hin to wonder .
His fatther support is a prime example of the positived impact of having a supportive parental figure
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Historian
Revolutionary
The Communist Manifesto was written by Fredrich Engelss and Karl Marx , attemots to explain the goals of communism
The books main argument is that creating one class of people would end the problem of contiouns class struggles and cycles of revolution between the bourgeois ( midle class, property owning ) and proletariat ( the woring class, laboring classs) (
Marx Claims
Title
2 major flaws with having a capatilistic sociwety that will lead t the exploitation of workers by the employers
Flaw 1: The chaotic nature of free martket competition plus the extraton of surplus labor will cause problems
Flaw 2: Capitalism would eventually destroy itsekf as more and more people normalized the woerking-clas statues
Exploitaton
2 Main Classes
Marx believes that society iscomposed to 2 main classes
Capitalists : the buisness owners whol organize process of productio, own means of production ( factories, tools, materials and entitled to any and all profits
Labor; the much larger class doesnt own or have any claims on their productions, doesnt get as much profits from the sale of created roject , work in return a wage
Exploitation
- marx belif is that employers are able to grenrate profits , they edtract a full days's worth of effort and productio fromworkers but only pay them a smaller fraction of this value as wages
THINK PIECE
Title
If goods and services tend to be sold at their true objective labor values as measured in labor hours, how do any capitalists enjoy profits? It must mean, that capitalists were underpaying or overworking, and thereby exploiting, laborers to drive down the cost of production
Conflict Theory
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Conflict theory has three assumptions:
1. Humans are self-interested.
2. Societies operate under perpetual scarcity of resources.
3. Conflict is pervasive and unavoidable within social groups and between social groups.
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Conflict Theory Relation to Social Work
An opotmsistic view of capitalism , schools that teach doing well in schol, leading t6o opppertunities of increasing your social clss.
As social woerkesr we will work wth alll walks of people , it is imporatnt to read up and learn on subjecst such as conflict theory, socialism, capitalism, because it effects how we may approach some clients/ situations. Also it puts classism into perspective, perhaps not enough resources, poor enviornment community, weak support system,