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Karl Marx
Julia Feldman, Nidhi Shah, Christine
Evangelista
Period: 3
Biography Born on May 5th 1818 Died on March 14th 1883 Born in Trier, Germany Died in London, England Historian, Economist & Journalist
Influence on Sociology• Inspired the foundation of many communist
governments in the twentieth century
• He said that the working class will defeat the
upper class
• His contribution to thinking in sociology is mainly
in a perspective called "Conflict Theory"
– Perspectives in sociology that emphasize the social,
political, or material inequality of a social group.
Outside Influences
• His introduction to the works of Hegel was a major influence on Marx.
• Marx rejected the idealism of Hegel and developed a more materialistic theory of history as science, ultimately predicting that the triumph of the working
Theories
• The conflict theory is one of Marx’s sociology theories
• Conflict theories- a set of theories by Marx that are
different perspectives in sociology that emphasize the
social and political inequality of a social group
– Perspectives in sociology that emphasize the social, political,
or material inequality of a social group.
Studies
• New perspective in
socialism
• Conflict theory
• Explains goals of
Communism
• Presents problems
with Capitalism
The End