Society

:For the song by the California punk band Pennywise, see Society (song).

Ontology

As a related note, there is still an ongoing debate in sociological and anthropological circles if there exists an entity we could call society. Some Marxist theorists, like Louis Althusser, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek, argued that society is nothing more than an effect of the ruling ideology of a certain class system, and shouldn't be used as a sociological notion. Marx's concept of society as the sum total of social relations among members of a community contrasts with interpretations from the perspective of methodological individualism where society is simply the sum total of individuals in a territory.

Related Topics:
Entity - Marxist - Louis Althusser - Ernesto Laclau - Slavoj Zizek - Ideology - Social relations - Methodological individualism

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