Social Theorists

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Social theorists have long discussed and analyzed the impacts of social change and the effects it has had through social and personal experiences. They focus on the strategies and techniques that help to explain human behavior, including the influences of family, beliefs, society, etc. This paper discusses the viewpoints on those social issues emphasized by Marx, Durkheim, and Freud. Their theories are not only unique from one another, but convincing in their own entities.

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"Marx believed that alienation revealed the human activity that lies behind impersonal forces that dominate society. Alternation isn't rooted in the mind, but in fact something rooted from the material world. This would prove ones loss of control, especially the loss of control over labor. "The alienation of the object of labor merely summarized the alienation in the work itself". (pg. 124) Mans resources have been stripped from him; therefore, he cannot live freely. To alienate nature from man means his own existence is out of his hands. The loss of mans resources was the beginning of capitalism and social class struggles. These class struggles were the primary source of historical change and conflict. Class struggle would be considered the norm within a capitalist society, and brought about through the system. He believed that the working class (proletarians) must overcome false consciousness in order to be transformed from a class in itself to a class for itself because "the more the worker produces the less he has to consume, the more the work manifests intelligence the more the worker declines in intelligence and becomes a slave in nature". (pg. 124)"

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