SOCI 330 Study Guide - Final Guide: Protestant Work Ethic, Industrial Revolution, Proletariat

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 330
• Professor: John Anthony Hall

Document Summary

The proletariat must make their mark on the world through social action. Intro: writing during the industrial revolution and as such is watching the effects of it play out. As such both durkheim and weber delve into the way that such changes would contextualize in modern society. Is the reason that the capitalist system is so broken it ruins the worker: smith vs marx, smith thinks that mental mutilation can be ensured and overcome by the state through specific actions. It is necessary for universal opulence to have division of labor so there is no way around it: marx saying that alienation is an imposition of the capitalist society due to exploitation which in turn is actually not necessary. Intro: conc, durkheim and marx are essentially optimistic, believing that that a re-ordering of modern society can remove anomie and alienation; weber is essentially a pessimist, given his insistence that disenchantment is the fate of our time.