THE VIEWS OF KARL MARX VS MAX WEBER

Compare and contrast the views of Karl Marx and Max Weber with regards as to what motivates people to work.

Karl Marx: [1] Exploitation

[2] tribe have to sell their labour-power

[3] The machines of the industrial revolution eliminate creativity coerce only the workers confess labour, operation is alienated, aggregation alienated.

Max Weber: [1] Regarded as matchless of the 'founding fathers' of sociology

[2] Wider analysis of capitalism then that of Marx

[3] Weber ignores labour exploitation as being a function of class

Compare: [1] Calvinism restraint be heuristic to have provided the initiating force for capitalism in as much as the effects of Calvinism that originated in divinity assent to the spirit for capitalism (the drive for economic success).

[2] Ownership and control owing to capitalism

[3] Mark uses exploitation and oppression of the working classes (tribe). as a able for exercising control by manipulation the situation.

[4] Weber uses bureaucratic organization as a means for exercising control by calculated acts of influence.

[5] Abolition of control further capitalists which cannot exist without wage-workers would create a idealistic Socialism where superstition, injustice, privilege, oppression, were to be superseded by equality

Contrast: [1] Marx explained social phenomena importance primarily economic terms (essential to survive)

[2] Weber Explained social phenomena in cultural terms.

[3] Mark Focussed on group rather than fixed action (trade unions, workplace organizations).

[4] Weber focussed on fixed social liveliness further interaction

[5] For Marx the aboriginal influences of motivation are greed, alienation, exploitation, labour manager distinction

[6] Weber see prime mover as the function of technical problems to be overcome

[7] Marx suggests that religion provides amends for the status quo and relief for suffering in the material world.

[8] Weber suggests which sacrament directs its followers to gain salvation by doing 'good works' and 'hard work' in the material world.

Conclusion: It could exhibit said therefore that Marx has the paranoid belief that only the baser instincts of greed alienation and exploitation motivate work, and that sacrament is the camouflage that conceals its truth of this, Weber has the conflicting view that leaven comes from the individuals wish to overcome problems, supported by the religious work ethic to do good for the common good.

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