Karl Marx basically categorizes two different types forces. The material forces and the mental forces. In effect there is always a balance between the two in that the expression of one is defined and controlled by the other. In Society there is this never ending conflict between the dual forces wherein each one seeks to overpower the other by its dominance. (When mental forces dominate it is reflected as a revolution). According to Marx, our consciousness and our perception of life is influenced by the social setup or the circumstances and not the other way round. Furthermore Marx opines that, men who are in control of the material productive forces (dominant class of people) also exercise control over the collective mental productive forces of the ordinary people....
(Laborers). Though there is a certain degree of truth in this argument in that in most cases people are guided and subjugated (their mental development and expression controlled) by their superiors, it cannot be agreed to be totally conclusive. How then could we explain the revolutionary thoughts of people who do not enjoy the command over material productive forces. So in these cases it has to be admitted that the unfolding of the mental productive forces does not always depend on the material forces. If such was the case there would have been no revolt in the whole history of mankind.
Emile Durkheim on Social Solidarity Durkheim is considered the first French academic sociologist and a significant part of the life of this philosopher was surrounded by his work and writing though he also participated a lot in the affairs of the French as a society. Though a respectable academic, he was still faced with various obstacles among them being the resistance and opposition from his colleagues as scholar who represented a
Labeling white collar crime is a mystery. A shared misapprehension of white collar crime is that, like pornography, it is hard to describe, however a lot of people would recognize it when they understood it. The only thing concerning white collar crime is that no profession is excused or unaffected by it (Geis, 2002). A person just needs to pick up the paper, observe the news, or go on
Coetzee and Defoe Coetzee's novels like Foe and Dusklands are an explicit rejection of the old cultural and literary canons, of which Robinson Crusoe has always been part. Indeed, his stories reverse the standard narrative of white male narrators, adventurers and colonizers, who explore and conquer the 'savage' regions of the world and mold them in the image of Western-Christian civilization. White men literally tell these stories, while blacks, Asians, American
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