Society In Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim And Max Marx

Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber are three fundamental figureheads in the foundation of sociology who asserted that our lifestyles are products of the society in which we live. They all lived in a period of great social change, that of the Industrial Revolution, and based their writings and musings upon what they observed happening around them and extrapolated as to the condition of the future. One foundational product of contemporary societies, that truly came into existence at the time during which they were writing, would be the economy and economic life. Looking at it on a macro level perspective, it is one of the aspects of the social superstructure. It is a social institution by itself, but it also shares a give and take relationship with other institutions in society and the superstructure such as education, ethics, law, religion, etc. However, the exact dynamics of the relationship between society and the economy are up to theoretical debate. Marx, Durkheim, and Weber were the first to explore these relationships, being around during the time in which they formed, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All three developed …show more content…
The bourgeois forced the proletariat to sell their labor on the market, in order to make ends meet, where they often faced rather dour working conditions. The events of the Industrial Revolution can be characterized by its very name, a revolution of the industrial. Workshops were replaced by factories, and mass amounts of relatively low workers were required to run these factories where the general quality of work had decreased substantially. The bourgeois manipulated the proletariat who would produce twelve hours’ worth of value in eight hour of work with eight hours’ worth of pay. The excess went straight to the bourgeois and helped them to further cement their concentrations of economic and political