SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture 3: Theory lecture 3-4.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

Ideas that were developed after the writings of the early classical theorists: tried to build on the classical theorists early to mid 20th century > present, talcot parsons: created structural functionalism, george herbert mead: developed symbolic interactionism, gender/race theorists, objectives in studying sociological theory, understanding ideas in classical and contemporary theory, grasping the impact of theorists lives on their ideas, seeing the relevance of theorists ideas to the 21st century. Easier to express thoughts: read the ideas of feuerbach, working with fredric engels life long friend/collaborator, engels seen factories for himself in england (horrible conditions) marx also went to see the capitalist behaviour, wanted to encourage the working class to rise up against capitalists, marx and engles co wrote the communist manifesto (meant for workers to read, failed revolution revolts in france, italy, germany, austria, and hungary people wanted change.