FOUNDING FATHERS

Founding Fathers

Founding Fathers

The sociological views of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim all assert that several pictures of our identity or lifestyle are fully a product of the society in which we live. Despite this assertion, each theorist considers the affect of society and its manifestation of our identity in a unlike way. All three of these men have been named among the 'founding founders' of sociology and used the Industrial Revolution and capitalism to shape their theories of social identity, particularly the identity created by capitalism's division of labor. The Industrial Revolution was a major turning ...