Essays on Sociological Theories

Power, at its essence, is about establishing fear and dominance. During the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, when the Church was in power and control of the state, in order to preserve that control, they had to spread fear among the citizens. If they...

To exercise its ideology, a totalitarian government needs to utilize different fields of sciences and arts. Architecture is one field that is able to serve the aims of the government. The British utilitarian philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) offers an example of an...

The known theorist and philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau had a great influence during the French Revolution with the Social Contract Theory. Although his views were somewhat controversial, he still made a huge influence during that era. Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland on June 28th, 1712....

In his text, Jean-Jacques Rousseau analyses social contracts. For him, justice can not be defined as the law of the strongest because of it was the case stronger individuals would always be right. Justice, for him, consists in the alignment of individual acts and civil...

Now that we know what critical theory means we can look at what Professor Jansen had stated that we cannot agree with a person about everything and that it conveys the truth that we cannot think for ourselves (Jansen, 2013. pp2-3). So I believe that...

The work Critical Educational Science is in reference to Critical theory with regard to the empirical educational science and the humanist pedagogy. Apart from these two paradigms it is closely related to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. The main function would be to...

Marxist Critical Theory is a politically-orientated criticism. It is derived from the theories of social philosopher Karl Marx.  A Marxist critic grounds their theory and practise in the economic and cultural theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and in doing so criticise literature in...