Summary Of Max Weber, Karl Marx, And Emile Durkheim

Introduction Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Emile Durkheim are all part of a “holy trinity” of classical sociological interests. They all hold different beliefs and agreements, which ultimately end up being the social norms/ideas that they stand by. Ultimately, the different beliefs held by each sociologist, are based on their background and the different viewpoints they grew up around. Max Weber was raised by a tyrannical father creating a terrible life for him, but was very smart, which lead to Weber’s success and his belief in authority. Karl Marx was raised around intellectual parents in a middle-class home, which deters his viewpoints towards the relationship to the means of production. Emile Durkheim was part of a Jewish family with a rabbi father. This made her serious about the scientific method of everything and framework. In the end, they all have different beliefs on the way one should live or may currently be living, but they also correlate back with each other.
Weber
Weber believes in authority and the distribution of power. A rise in capitalism development, not for the pursuit of wealth but profit through peaceful exchange. In general Weber is less emotional

agency. Rituals within religious life leads to success. Durkheim’s beliefs and practices are relative to sacred things. She believes God is society and religion as not purely individual but the manifestation of the social fact. She ultimately is a functionalist. She focuses on structure and the big picture of things and the way the religious system reflects on society. Society is what gives you a sense of categories that you live by. This clashes from what we are used to with the social norm. We feel as if we’re all different, but hold many traits that bring us together. The function of marriage is to build social networks between families. As a conformist following the social norms by knowing what is right and wrong to stay out of