With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relati...

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Hence, these two very important statements which emphasizes on the inherent complications faced in the realm of sociology will work as the fundamental idea in detecting the contributions and criticism of critical theory, which is the aim of this essay. In the first section of the essay I will identify the contributions of critical theory and then move on to the critics in the second section, and in the last section I will aim to conclude the essay with a well-balanced conclusion for the essay question. ...

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In this essay I will be critically evaluating the contributions of social theory in the understanding of society. ... Marxism focuses on the financial aspect of society, believing the family unit has a sole purpose of creating the next generation of workers for free; to eventually participate in cheap labour, benefiting the Bourgeoisie in a Capitalist society. ... This however links with the Marxist conflict view that the family is nothing but a deception, encouraging the working class to fall into false-class consciousness whilst never breaking free from cheap labour and poverty, benefiting t...

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