Introducing Western Sociologists
Jammu & Kashmir Board · Class 11 · Sociology
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1. Historical Context of Sociology
- Sociology is often called the child of the age of revolution.
- Three processes paved the way for sociology: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution.
- The Enlightenment placed reason at the centre of human life and encouraged secular, scientific, and humanistic thinking.
2. Karl Marx
- Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in the Rhineland province of Prussia in Germany.
- Marx died in 1883 and is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery.
- His radical political views led to exile from Germany, France, and Austria.
3. Durkheim
- Emile Durkheim was born on April 15, 1858 in Epinal in the Lorraine region of France.
- He came from an orthodox Jewish family; his father, grandfather, and great grandfather were rabbis.
- By the time he entered Ecole Normale Superieure in 1876, he had become an agnostic.
4. Max Weber
- Max Weber was born on 21 April 1864 in Erfurt, Germany, into a Prussian family.
- He died in 1920, and almost all his major famous works were published in book form only after his death.
- Weber argued that the main aim of social science is interpretive understanding of social action.
Key Concepts
Central concept: The emergence of sociology through the ideas of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber
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