Chapter 4

In 1912, Durkheim in his book “The elementary forms of Religious life” stated his views about religion. This publication is considered to be one of his...

In 1897, Durkheim published a book named Le Suicide in which he defined Suicide as any event of death caused by direct or indirect, positive or...

Before learning about the social facts given by Durkheim, let us have a glimpse of his contribution to sociology. Emile Durkheim Social Facts Durkheim is the...

The Division of labour is the theory given by Emile Durkheim as a result of his intellectual analysis in 1893. This theory explained the way how...

The theory of class struggle was developed by Marx after he analyzed and criticized the capitalist society. He explained the history of class struggles concerning minorities....

Karl Marx has highly criticized the capitalist system, as in this system the considerable power and clout vested in hands of powerful firms leaving behind the...

What is a mode of production? The mode of production is the combination of the productive forces and the relations of productions. The production starts with...

Marx’s ideology concerning society is named as bus theory of historical materialism. Marx selected materialism as an important sociological concept as for him the material conditions...