Sociology › Section D · Society and social interaction › Topic D.2
Theoretical perspectives on society
Durkheim, Marx and Weber all watched industrial capitalism remake Europe, and each asked what holds a modern society together and what it does to the people inside it. Their answers, solidarity, class conflict and rationalisation, still frame how sociologists think about society today.
In this topic
- Three thinkers, one upheaval
- Durkheim: two kinds of solidarity
- Anomie
- Tönnies: community and society
- Marx: base, superstructure and class
- Marx: alienation
- False consciousness and class consciousness
- Weber: class, status, power and rationalisation
- Worked example: a delivery driver through three lenses
- Worked example: from village to city
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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