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A 6 page essay that examines the writing and sociological perspective of Comte, Marx, and De Tocqueville. The writer assert that by examining the writing of each man, it is possible to get an overall feel for each man's sociological position and to see how he arrived at that position. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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examining the writing of each man, it is possible to get an overall feel for his sociological position and to see how he arrived at that position. For Karl Marx,
the most compelling social phenomena of his age was the emergence of capitalism that occurred with nineteenth century industrialization. While capitalism benefited the middle class bourgeoisie, the vast majority of
Europes population, its working class, suffered under new system of factory labor, which paid wages barely capable of keeping body and soul together for the average family. In addition to
the observations and facts of his own age, Marx looked to history for verification of his sociological theories. People make use of nature to fulfill their material needs for
food, clothing and shelter. Therefore, Marx saw history as a process wherein people, through an increasing accumulation of knowledge, made use of nature, that is, he saw history in terms
of advancements that concerned the means of production for a given society. Marx writes that "articles of utility become commodities...because they are products of the labor of private individuals
or groups" (Marx 474). In a primitive society, individuals cooperate and all villagers share in the fruits of their labor. When surpluses of production occur, a society is then
faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark points out that, typically, a small
portion of a given population gains control over the means of production for that society, as well as political power to obtain any surplus and classes develop. Marx saw capitalism
as a natural product of this evolutionary process. Marx argued that workers, in their labor for others, produce objects over which they have no control and which they
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