The Sociological Theories of: Durkheim, Marx and Weber.

The Sociological Theories of: Durkheim, Marx and Weber.

Enedina Bermudez

1st period

Emile Durkheim biography

• He was born on April 15, 1858 in Espinal, France
• He was born into a jewish family
• He did not want to be a rabbi like his father.
• He studied at École Normale Supérieure in Paris

Karl Marx other major theories

Emile Durkheim

Max Weber

• According to Max, action is social in so far as by virtue of the subjective meaning attached to it by acting individual it takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course.
• He argued to explain an action we must interpret it in terms of its subjectively intended meaning.
• A person's action is to be explained in terms of the consequences he or she intended purpose.
• it is important that action is defined in terms of meaningfulness and sociological analysis must proceed by identifying the meaning that actions have for actors.

Max Weber

• He was Born in Germany in 1864.
• He went to Heidelberg University.
• He became a professor but he suffered a mental breakdown in 1897 and left him unable to work for 5 years.
• Weber's writing helped form the basis of modern sociology.

• Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production is privately owned.
• There are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
• The bourgeoisie are the 'haves' which are the upper and middle class. They have economic and political power.
• The proletariat are the 'have nots' which are the lower classes, those who do not have economic or political power.

Emile Durkheim other major theories

Max Weber

• Bureaucracies - determines the social relationship among people. These are destructive to human and vitality and freedom.
• Rationalization - the modern world has become dominated by structures.
• -Efficiency, calulability, predictability, and technology control.

• He believes culture is the first and foremost medium through which a collective entity presents itself to itself.
• He believes everyone takes part in a culture.
• He's known as the "Father of sociology"

• He developed the concept of anomie later in suicide.
• He showed that social factors exert a basic influence on suicidal behavior.
• According to Emile, people have a certain level of attachment to their groups, which he refers to social integration.
• In his classic study of suicide, he demonstrated that neither psychopathic factors, nor hereditary, nor climate, nor imitation, nor poverty, nor unhappy love and other personal factors are responsible for suicide.

Karl Marx biography

Karl Marx

• He was born in Prussia on May 5, 1818.
• Marx was an average student. He was educated at home until he was 12 years old.
• He began studying at the University in Bonn.
• Marx was secretly engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, a sought-after woman from a respected family in Trier who was four years his senior.

• He saw culture primarily as being a part of the social superstructure of a given mode of production, the culture of any given society will always correspond with its economic system.