Comparing Marx, Durkheim, And Weber

In the confines of human existence the only thing that can be assured is change. Within their lifetimes three definitive sociologists viewed vast change in human development within their social context, which altered their sociological imagination and their body of work as a whole. The sociologists that will be represented here are Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Each of these great thinkers had contrasting backgrounds that lead them to different areas in life, however all of them grew and lived in an era of immense change and development; the industrial revolution and the mid 1800s (I don't know think of something). During this time we see massive developments such as the rise of capitalism, urbanization, democratization, socialism, change in religious thought, scientific development, and individualization. In the early to mid 1800s Karl Marx addressed the issue of materiality, Emile

Marx, Weber, and Durkheim were at the precipice of social change during the industrial revolution and the tumultuous and detrimental effects following. Marx was greatly influenced by Georg Hegel's work on dialectics, as well as Friedrich Engels on working class analysis. The issues Marx addressed were alienation, surplus value, value of labour theory, and class struggle. Emile Durkheim's influences were Auguste Comte's sociological positivism, Social Realism, and neo-Kantianism. Durkheim was a great scientist and can be credited as the founder of modern social science as a whole. Durkheim established a goal to solidify Sociology as a scientific body of work, which he ended up doing. The issues addressed by Durkheim is the concept of collective consciousness, social anomie, and collective effervescence. Max Weber's influences came in the form of neo-Kantianism from the likes of