Soc 100
Summarize the contributions of Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx to the field of sociology. Be sure to note any theoretical differences they may have had with one another.
Emile Durkheim – Theory
Emile Durkheim was a French sociologist he worked on a book of theory , he was one of the founding fathers or sociology. He wasn’t much of a traveler what he did was study the work of anthropologist traveler and other missionaries. He developed two theories one is “The sacred” and the “Totemism” . The sacred in his beliefs having faith in like a god and Totemism is you having relationship with a spirit being like an animal or a plant which is a different entity.
Karl Marx – Theory
Karl Marx was a german revolutionary, sociologist an economist and historian as well as a philanthropist . Marx was against exploitation but was also having a hard time keeping a job. He developed a theory called “historical materialism” min which he believed social, morality and religion reviled around the economy and how it was the center of all those movements.
Max Weber – Theory
Max Weber was german sociologist , philosopher, and political economist. He wrote a thesis call the ” Protestant ethic”, sociologist theory that attached hard work , efficiency whatever you were meant to become through hard work. Weber was into the Sociology of actions. He wrote numerous of books and essays , he also helped established western institutions by focusing on rationalism he says rationalism is that regards reason as the primary source or knowledge.
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