Task: What do you make of Karl Marx’s contributions to sociology? What perceptions of Marx have you
been exposed to in your society, and how do those perceptions influence your views? Answer: All that is
solid melts into air, all which is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses
his real condition of life and his relations with his kind. (Marx and Engels 1848) (Little. W, 2014) Society
is a group of people or communities with similar traditions, institutions, or interests. That said I don’t
agree or disagree with Karl Marx’s contributions to sociology.
In my opinion, society develops and grows when there is a sense of equality, justice, and fairness.
Capitalism and Communism are both wrong, because Capitalism makes business owners the main
profiter and does not give the laborers and customers chances to have benefits and chances to develop,
and Communism indicates that the profits in any business are owned by the public so, it deprives
business owners of their property and profit rights. I was not exposed to any perceptions of Marx in my
society. I’m an Arabic Muslim woman, and in my community it is different.
We depend on social solidarity, every single person in society has rights, if they own a business, they
have the right to benefit from its growth, but they have to consider the community around them. That
means they have to help the poor and unfortunate people in their community, they have to be fair to
their employees, this way every person benefits. In my society, every person has rights, children,
women, relatives. In my community you cannot deprive a child of his right to have health care and
education, there is always someone responsible to fulfill these rights until the child is mature and self-
dependent, you can not a woman’s right to education, for choosing her partner or working in developing
her own business, she has these rights. I am not saying that my community is perfect, but the problem is
the people in my community, not the system.
References: Little, W. (n.d.) Introduction to sociology - 1st Canadian edition. B.C. Open Textbook project.
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/front-matter/about-the-book/
been exposed to in your society, and how do those perceptions influence your views? Answer: All that is
solid melts into air, all which is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses
his real condition of life and his relations with his kind. (Marx and Engels 1848) (Little. W, 2014) Society
is a group of people or communities with similar traditions, institutions, or interests. That said I don’t
agree or disagree with Karl Marx’s contributions to sociology.
In my opinion, society develops and grows when there is a sense of equality, justice, and fairness.
Capitalism and Communism are both wrong, because Capitalism makes business owners the main
profiter and does not give the laborers and customers chances to have benefits and chances to develop,
and Communism indicates that the profits in any business are owned by the public so, it deprives
business owners of their property and profit rights. I was not exposed to any perceptions of Marx in my
society. I’m an Arabic Muslim woman, and in my community it is different.
We depend on social solidarity, every single person in society has rights, if they own a business, they
have the right to benefit from its growth, but they have to consider the community around them. That
means they have to help the poor and unfortunate people in their community, they have to be fair to
their employees, this way every person benefits. In my society, every person has rights, children,
women, relatives. In my community you cannot deprive a child of his right to have health care and
education, there is always someone responsible to fulfill these rights until the child is mature and self-
dependent, you can not a woman’s right to education, for choosing her partner or working in developing
her own business, she has these rights. I am not saying that my community is perfect, but the problem is
the people in my community, not the system.
References: Little, W. (n.d.) Introduction to sociology - 1st Canadian edition. B.C. Open Textbook project.
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/front-matter/about-the-book/
