Original scientific paper

A Category System in Marxist Sociology

Vjeran Katunarić ; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Abstract

Marxist sociology is a project worked on by those Marxists (Lefebvre, Habermas) who consider that despite its shortcomings contemporary sociology offers necessary tools for analysis and interpretation of society in the past and present.
One of the fundamental assumptions of this project is the construction of a category system as a step which precedes the construction of an overall theory of society. An elementary form of a category system in Marxist sociology can be found in Marx's Das Kapital; that is, in the way in which Marx combined three approaches to social reality: the structural, evolutionary and critical approach.
On the basis of Marx’s model of presenting the categories of -political economy and some sociological categories and their critical reinterpretation, an analogous model of displaying sociological categories is proposed in this article, proceeding from basic categories (society, social determinism, values and norms, roles, social power, institutions and organizations), through forms of contemporary pre-industrial and industrial societies, to analyses and interpretations of the roles of sociology in society.

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Hrčak ID:

156055

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156055

Publication date:

30.6.1979.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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