marxist sociology

[chris hurl]

I was taught right from the very beginning that sociology had three founders 
that roughly coincided with three different schools:
1.  Durkheim - Structural-Functionalist
2.  Weber - Symbolic Interactionist
3.  Marx - Conflict
At UBC, where I majored in sociology, essentially every teacher that I had 
identified themselves as some sort of Marxist or identified strongly with 
Marx's writings.  In fact, this was a major reason why
I went into sociology in the first place.  It was only after I left UBC that 
I began to understand that most other schools, particularly in North 
America, particularly in the United States ascribed to a very positivist and 
"functionalist" view of sociology.  Moreover, from my experience I have 
found that there are as many different brands of "marxist" sociology as 
there are "marxisms" outside of sociology.  For instance there is a huge 
difference between the works of C. Wright Mills, Dahrendorff, Bourdieu, etc. 
all of whom are sociologists and all of whom adopt Marx in their writings to 
some extent.

chris

chris

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