The following is a compare and contrast essay comparing and contrasting Durkheim, Weber, and Marx within the structure-agency and conflict-consensus frameworks, with the paragraphs structured by the block structure.
Emile Durkheim Structure-agency
Durkheim states that society is a living independent being. He says that social phenomena must be analysed with a holistic view, not individually but as part of a whole. According to www.en.allexpects.com , Durkheim says that “the society is more than the sum of its parts, which is why Durkheim developed the idea of the solidaristic function done by the division of labour seen as the distribution of social roles” this is what is called social structure. “When I fulfil my obligations as brother, husband or citizen, I perform duties, which are defined, externally to myself and my acts, in law and custom. Even if they conform to my own sentiments, and I feel their reality subjectively, such reality is still objective, for I did not create them; I merely inherited them through my education...the church member finds the belief and practices of his religious life readymade at birth; their existence prior to him implies this existence outside himself.’, (Durkheim, 1938, pp. 1-2). With …show more content…
He furthermore says that capitalists depend on labour force to work in their enterprise just as workers depend on capitalists to provide their wages, this is regarded as consensus. With regards to conflict, Karl Marx says that there is conflict between different classes, this is known as class struggle (namely the Bourgeois and Proletarians. These too classes had unequal rights and resources the Bourgeois had the advantage and owned most of the lands and resources while the Proletarians worked for them, this therefore creates conflict and conflict of
Emile Durkheim Structure-agency
Durkheim states that society is a living independent being. He says that social phenomena must be analysed with a holistic view, not individually but as part of a whole. According to www.en.allexpects.com , Durkheim says that “the society is more than the sum of its parts, which is why Durkheim developed the idea of the solidaristic function done by the division of labour seen as the distribution of social roles” this is what is called social structure. “When I fulfil my obligations as brother, husband or citizen, I perform duties, which are defined, externally to myself and my acts, in law and custom. Even if they conform to my own sentiments, and I feel their reality subjectively, such reality is still objective, for I did not create them; I merely inherited them through my education...the church member finds the belief and practices of his religious life readymade at birth; their existence prior to him implies this existence outside himself.’, (Durkheim, 1938, pp. 1-2). With …show more content…
He furthermore says that capitalists depend on labour force to work in their enterprise just as workers depend on capitalists to provide their wages, this is regarded as consensus. With regards to conflict, Karl Marx says that there is conflict between different classes, this is known as class struggle (namely the Bourgeois and Proletarians. These too classes had unequal rights and resources the Bourgeois had the advantage and owned most of the lands and resources while the Proletarians worked for them, this therefore creates conflict and conflict of