What are the mail sociological perspectives and what do they all stand for? E.g Marxism, socialism...?

Question

Any help would be good as i'm doing a sociology exam soon and I have no idea what any of the theories are!

Answer 1

there's max Weber who uses interpretive theories, Emile Durkheim - positivist theories, Karl Marx - conflict theories.

in interpretive, every individual has a perceived world, so it states that a person should study each of these perceived worlds in itself.

in positivist, individuals live in a world and therefore it should be studied empirical, deterministic, objective way.

in conflict, a perceived world is ruled by coersion and must be changed.

hope that helps, you should just expound on these things because i'm doing it from memory.

Good luck on your exam!:-)

Answer 2

Maybe you should put a spelling correction for your spelling correction.  Ment is not a word.  Enough of me being a jerk I just found it ironic.

Marxism = Socialism

Marx created the idea of communism in his Communist Manifesto.

As far as other sociological perspectives I can only infer from your question that you are referring to classical Sociological theory since you mentioned Marx.  Try finding some information online about:

Claude Henri Saint Simon

Auguste Comte*

Emile Durkheim*

Marx*

Max Weber*

Herbert Spencer

George Simmel

WEB Du Bois

Thorstein Veblen

Karl Mannheim

George Mead

Alfred Schultz

Talcott Parsons

If you want to it quickie style like I'm guessing you do since you asked for help on Answers is stick with the Sociologists I put an * next to.  All the major classical sociologists have somewhat of a different sociological perspective.

Good luck and happy googling.