МАРКСОВА ДЕФИНИЦИЈА ДРУШТВА И ЊЕН ЗНАЧАЈ ЗА СОЦИОЛОГИЈУ
MARX'S DEFINITION OF SOCIETY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN SOCIOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article exposes the fundamental determinants of the Marx's definition of the human society's notion. But, before proceeding to the exposition of the Marx's definition of the society he does review the most important non Marxist theories of the notion of the human society (mechanistic, biologistic, psychologists and the contemporary tendencies in the middle class or 'bourgeois' sociology — functionalists, instrumentalistic and analytic) and points out theii unscientificness. In the second part of the article the author quotes the Marx's definition of the society which reads that "the whole of such relations, wherein the bearers of such a production are standing towards the nature and mutually, wherein they are producing, such a whole is but the society, consired in its economic structure". Then he exposes the fundamental characteristic of this definition of the society pointing out the Marx's determination of the society as a phenomenon sui generis in the objective reality and its connection with the nature through a process of exchange of the matter. In this part of the work it is particularly stressed to the importance of the Marx's definition of the society for the sociology. In the third part of the article the author point out the diversity of the proceeding in defining the notion of the human society in the Yugoslav literature and quotes the definitions of the society of someones of the Yugoslav authors.

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