The alternative to functionalism and marxism: Birnbaum’s sociology of the State

Authors

  • Ignacio M.ª Beobide Ezpeleta
  • Luis Ignacio Gordillo Pérez

Keywords:

State, sociology, functionalism, marxism, Birnbaum, Marx, Durkheim, Weber

Abstract

This study analyses the different contributions of Sociology and the Classic State Sociology to the State Theory, taking into account their methodologies and the results of their application, revisiting the theory of the emergency of the State within those approaches. These contributions, starting with Marx, Durkheim and Weber see the State as a phenomenon being particular, historic, social, plural and multiform. At the same time, the State is considered as an independent element in order to analyse and justify a range diversity of social facts.

Issue

Section

ARTICLES