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The paper explains that the founding fathers of social science, Marx, Durkheim and Weber were all influenced by the social dislocations of their age of industrial capitalism, while seeking through their work to better understand its impact. This paper offers the argument that the relevance of their ideas continue into this post industrial information age of the early 21st century. The paper contends that of the three men, Karl Marx was undoubtedly the most influential, with his writings giving rise to a major movement of social and political thought. The paper discusses how writing in the 19th century, Marx focused much of his work on the analysis of the emergence of early capitalism.

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