LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this chapter, we will discuss the following important topics.
- Emile Durkheim
- Max Weber
- Karl Marx
INTRODUCTION
The emergence of sociology as a scientific discipline can be traced back to the period of the 18th and 19th centuries, which saw tremendous social, political, and economic changes such as those embodied in the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, giving thinkers much thought about it. Thus, the field of sociology was initially concerned with the broader historical processes related to these changes. The three major sociological theories that came into existence in this period are the functionalist ...
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