How Karl Marx Accounts for the Industrialization of Society

How Karl Marx Accounts for the Industrialization of Society

Sociology has been classified as the last in a long line of emerging

scientific disciplines which people have developed and explored in

order to make sense of their world. Early theories such as the

positivist approach of Comte, the functionalist views and the conflict

perspectives of Karl Marx have offered a view of why human beings

behave as they do and how they fit together in society.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century European societies

experienced major

changes due to the industrial revolution. These changes included a

radical change in the economy, and many changes to aspects of

society. Although it can be argued that these changes were important

for society, these changes led to mass confusion. People begun to

feel insecure about the future of social order and thus many early

sociologists felt compelled to explain and understand these changes.

One of the many early sociologists who attempted to explain how the

industrialisation of society occurred was Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was born in 1818 and died in 1883. During his life Marx

wrote and contributed too many writings. Although the roots of these

writings lay in the eighteenth century, which was a time of major

social and political change that stemmed form the revolution of 1789

in France, they have had their greatest influence in the political

sphere and possibly the intellectual world in the twentieth century.

Marx’s writings are a true outcome of the times that he was writing in

and thus focus on the economy, and class struggle. Due to this Marx’s

account of the industrial revolution mainly fo...

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his view is heavily criticised as shown in this essay and therefore it

is somewhat difficult to assert that the industrialisation of society

occurred in the manner that Marx ascertains.

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