Marxist Perspective

Question A Marxist Perspective

Its central aim is to provide an empirically well-founded description of phenomenon, to get the social implications; and to illuminate the historical process through which this phenomenon came to exist in the real world. Additionally, its aims at comprehend and explain reality using themes to make analysis and this is confirmed by research. This has methods such as phenomenology and Ethnomethodology. It produces knowledge on a social reality in order to transform it. Therefore understanding reality becomes a main goal to drive the historical process and historical world. However, knowledge is not a sufficient and it must be articulated with a practical process.

Positivist perspective

This is based on a notion

Once the researcher formulates a problem or question to investigate, then is bounded to formulate a design for investigating.

Both perspectives share a foundation in philosophical materialism. Although the western Marxism has moved from this materialist focus outside, its consideration of economics remains a vibrant materialist perspective within the field of research.

Causal connections, Both Marxist and Positivist perspectives focus on finding strong correlation between two or more social phenomena, and then they might suspect that one of the phenomena is causing the other to take place. For example Family violence Vs Alcohol abuse, Patriarchy and Cultural background. Both perspectives emphasize that knowledge must start from the empirical, material world. The social world has to be verified in a purely empirical manner by understanding of empiricism and realist ontology.

Both have a view that the world exists independently of researchers’ knowledge of it and that social phenomena have causal powers on which we can make causal statements.

Both Marxist and positivist stress the need for a rigorous scientific method, for scientific analysis of the social phenomenon and natural

Validation, Marxist perspective evaluates the validity of factual claims or social realities basing on an ideology rather than empirical evidence Whereas Positivist evaluate factual validity of a social phenomenon basing on the statistical results.

Positivist perspective focuses on facts Causalities and fundamental laws and a phenomenon is reduced to the simplest elements whereas Marxist perspective aims at understanding the meaning of events by exploring the totality of each individual case and draw conclusions.

Marxist perspective considers small samples to make analysis in a greater depth or over longer period of time whereas positivist perspective captures bigger samples to make in depth analysis and draw conclusions on a given social