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Simon Clarke (26 March 1946 – 27 December 2022) was a British sociologist who specialised in social theory, political economy, labour relations, and the history of sociology. He had a particular interest in employment relations in China, Vietnam, and the former-Soviet nations.
Jan 21, 2023 · Simon Clarke, who had an economics background, begun his career as a sociologist through the critique of structuralism, that was a mainstream trend in the 1970s. He subsequently engaged in a thorough study of classical political economy tracing the roots and development of modern economics and sociology as a discipline.
Apr 29, 2023 · By contrast, although this aspect would become more prominent and central in his later books from the 1980s like Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology or Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State (see Burnham, Bonefeld and Fairbrother in this forum) already in this early article it is possible to discern that, for Clarke, what set the Marxian critique of political economy apart from bourgeois social science was its discovery of the fetishistic constitution of value, money and ...
May 18, 2023 · Whether examining Marx’s critique in relation to classical political economy or modern sociology (Clarke 1991a) or studying the social organisation of labour during Russia’s integration into the world market (Clarke 1995, 1996a, 1996b, 1996c), or analysing contemporary crises tendencies of global capital, labour relations and class struggles (Clarke, 2001, 2005, 2008), Simon’s work has pivoted to the contradictions in the social relations that give rise to class conflict. Social ...
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Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology offers an original interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy as the basis of a critique of modern economics and sociology. The core of the book is an account of Marx's theory of alienated labour as the basis of Marx's work as a whole. The critical implications of this theory are developed ...
Simon Clarke’s practical–theoretical dialectic and the unity of purpos... Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar. ... Insurgent Sociologist. Jul 1986. Restricted ...
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Jan 10, 2020 · Simon was a naturally political animal without obvious affiliations. He hated unfairness and poverty and was a very good social theorist. He was popular with undergraduate students because he could get across how theories work and help in understanding and making interventions. He wrote clearly, and his Sociology books are still read.
