SOCIAL THEORY ESSAY QUESTIONS How does Marx understand the emergence of class-based

SOCIAL THEORY ESSAY QUESTIONS

How does Marx understand the emergence of class-based inequality under conditions of modernity? How important is his theory for understanding social inequality in contemporary society?

Key Readings

– Tucker (ed.) Marx and Engels Reader, Norton & Company, 1978. “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts ”)

 

Further Readings

-Patricia Hills Collins, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Duke UP, 2019. (Introduction).

Marx, Karl (1990). Capital, vol 1. London: Penguin, Chapter 1: The Commodity (pp. 125-177).