SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Fact, Individualism, Capital: Critique Of Political Economy
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Karl marx - 19th century (1818-1883), german. Max weber - mid 19th to early 20th century (1864-1920), german. Emile durkheim - mid 19th to early 20th century (1859-1917), french. Some substantive theories that have led to formal theories. Philosophers as much as researchers (or even more so in the case of marx) Was a time when the emergence of new technology (power driven machinery) changed the way things were produced and changed how resources could be and were used. Resources include things like: land, people, money, energy sources, animals, ect. Scientific and technological process forces of production relations of production (materials, land, labor) (master-slave, capitalist-worker) To open a factory, you need money and machines (capital). People who had these resources were called capitalists and then controlled the means of production. The way people met their subsistence" changed, as did the relationships between people. New classes depending on who had wealth and power.
