The definition of the situation is a way of identify the situation, uses reason and science to figure out social problems and allows one to understand your life circumstances to help understand the issue or problem and interpret it in a moral context. Some examples of understanding the situation from our everyday lives are things like gun control and the sides of argument about guns, immigration with looking at the perspectives of people coming into the country and the people who oppose people immigrating into the US , and our economic statues and understanding those higher and lower of us. Understanding the definition of the situation and all the it entails is very important to the understanding of human behavior because with it, it
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The contributions Karl Marx made to study of sociology is tremendous. He was born in Germany in 1838 and lived till 1880, he born into a jewish family and desired to be a rabbi at a young age,but life would have other plans for him. Marx’s focus was on conflict theory/conflict of interest and social classes. With the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution in full motion, Marx began to see the flaws of this and pointed them like noticing how the Bourgeoise (Upper class) and how they controlled most of industry while the proletariat (workers) were being used/exposed by Bourgeoise; and how they sell their labor to the Bourgeoise. He also deemed that the Bourgeoise controlled the culture of the society and also what was the extra surplus of goods produced eventually went right back to them instead of the proletariat, and this lead to Marx’s big concern of the exploitation of workers. With Marx’s observation of the exploitation of workers, lead him to theorize his biggest work ever, the idea of Marxism that would lead to and turn into Communism. Marx and his partner Friedrich Engels thought of the basic principle of Marxism as, in a society everyone was equal to each other in every way so there wouldn’t be any exploitation and corruption like in Capitalism. He then predicted that eventually Communism would effectively replace capitalism entirely and would be the end political state of the future, this was his imaging of a futuristic utopia would be. Durkheim’s contributions to sociology were his idea of functionalism,the definition of the situation/social fact, divisions of labor, and anomie and solidarity. He was a Frenchmen born in 1860 and died in 1910, he wanted to establish sociology in France, he was the very first sociologist in all of France. One
The contributions Karl Marx made to study of sociology is tremendous. He was born in Germany in 1838 and lived till 1880, he born into a jewish family and desired to be a rabbi at a young age,but life would have other plans for him. Marx’s focus was on conflict theory/conflict of interest and social classes. With the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution in full motion, Marx began to see the flaws of this and pointed them like noticing how the Bourgeoise (Upper class) and how they controlled most of industry while the proletariat (workers) were being used/exposed by Bourgeoise; and how they sell their labor to the Bourgeoise. He also deemed that the Bourgeoise controlled the culture of the society and also what was the extra surplus of goods produced eventually went right back to them instead of the proletariat, and this lead to Marx’s big concern of the exploitation of workers. With Marx’s observation of the exploitation of workers, lead him to theorize his biggest work ever, the idea of Marxism that would lead to and turn into Communism. Marx and his partner Friedrich Engels thought of the basic principle of Marxism as, in a society everyone was equal to each other in every way so there wouldn’t be any exploitation and corruption like in Capitalism. He then predicted that eventually Communism would effectively replace capitalism entirely and would be the end political state of the future, this was his imaging of a futuristic utopia would be. Durkheim’s contributions to sociology were his idea of functionalism,the definition of the situation/social fact, divisions of labor, and anomie and solidarity. He was a Frenchmen born in 1860 and died in 1910, he wanted to establish sociology in France, he was the very first sociologist in all of France. One