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