SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dialectical Materialism, Wilhelm Dilthey, Class Conflict

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

This chapter looks at the dialectical materialism of karl marx and the interpretive sociology of max weber. Marx developed a historical-materialist method that allowed him to focus on the exterior, material world. This, he believed, held the key to understanding the social life of members of any given society. Marx has likely affected more people than any other thinker of the past two hundred years. Major political and economic revolutions have been made in marx"s name. In other countries, specifically the united states, entire governments have devoted themselves to combating marxism and communism. Both marx and engels believed capitalism would be replaced by a new social order where every-one would be free to realize their full potential. Marx was a humanist who was affected by the suffering and exploitation that he witnessed among the working class and this led him to call for revolution and the overthrow of capitalism.