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This 8 page paper examines questions and answers related to Marx, Durkheim and Weber. Six questions are posed and answers are provided. The discussion includes concepts such as alienation, anomie, capitalism, ideology and social structure. No bibliography.
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society? The classical sociologists--Marx, Durkheim and Weber--have different ideologies even though the theorists are lumped together to some extent. At the same time, their ideologies are each related to structure
in society. Weber seems to attach his ideology to the premise that bureaucracy is a necessary evil. It is not ideal, but clearly it is better than the alternative, which
is not to have it. Weber sees society as something that requires order, and a controlling force, and bureaucracy is a good organizational tool. A student writing on this topic
might suggest that there is a price to pay for that organization. Marx on the other hand possesses an ideology based on fairness. His idea to have a communist government
is equated with the assumption that material wealth should be fairly divvied out. It would not be fair for all the wealth to go to the top for example. In
his intricate model, which is also well organized, the ideology does not pertain to the technical structure of society but to an ideological governmental stance. In other words, rather than
focus on exactly how things would be run, the focus is placed on the fact that sharing is key to happiness. In the end, Marx does care about how the
people feel and how they fare in daily life. Unlike Weber, Marx views alienation as a problem. Weber simply acknowledges bureaucracy as a given, and does not look for solutions.
Finally, Emile Durkheim, like Marx, expresses concern about the people and studies society as something that is easily manipulated. He contends that when drastic change occurs people react. To an
extent, Durkheim is concerned about what would occur in society and how the people feel about things. Unlike Marx who is attached to the ideology of Communism, and Weber to
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