SOCIOL 2S06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Claude Henri De Rouvroy, Comte De Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Industrial Revolution

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Early theorist tend to focus on negative changes. The industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. People left farming, they enter the stage of manufacturing and factories. Labour movement emerged to flight for the rights of the workers who were exploited by capitalism. Not a good economic system we need to move on to something else . They all live through from industrial evolution to the next stage. Some thinkers favored socialism as a solution of the problem of industrial revolution and capitalism. Karl marx talked about the need to engage into the act of overthrow capitalism and emplace it with socialism. Sociologist who imposes socialism : durkheim and weber (they believe there is a solution of capitalism) Their views are discounted and marginalized by male theorist until the late 20th century. Durkheim argue that religion have the role to establish the solidarity of early society. Durkheim and comte argue sociology should be modernize in the nature sciences.