SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Middle Ages, The Proletariat, Petite Bourgeoisie

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

Document Summary

Forces affecting the development of sociological theory: social forces: political revolutions, the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism, socialism, The revolutions also created negative changes: chaos, and disorder. Early theorist were interested in restoring social order (aguste comte, emile durkheim) The industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. Capitalis(cid:373) a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)dustrial so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:862)(cid:271)ou(cid:374)d(cid:863) together. Factory owners would profit at the expense of the workers. Negative reactions to these developments: labour movement, radical movements to over throw capitalism all came about. *early social theorist (karl marx, emile durkheim, max weber) were interested in understanding problems associated with the industrial revolution and capitalism* (they lived through the revolution) Emerged to grapple all the problems of capitalism and industrial revolution. Early social thinkers favoured socialism as a solution to these problem (karl marx, talked about need to over throw capitalism) Early theorist that opposed socialism(durkheim and weber) recognized the problem of capitalism but thought it best to reform capitalism.