Sociolgy Report

In this paper I will cover the top 3 men who are considered the founding fathers of sociology. I will discuses a brief biography on them. Also how they contributed to the creation known as sociology. If you don't already know sociology is the study of human behavior and it is a valuable tool for many law enforcement employees. I will begin with a man called Karl Marx.

Karl Heinrich Marx was born the third of seven children. He was born in a Jewish Family in the town of Trier in the country of Germany. Marx was educated at home until the age of thirteen. After graduating from the Trier gymnasium Marx enrolled in the University of Bonn in 1835 at the age of seventeen to study law. But Marx was interested in studying philosophy and literature, but his father would not allow it because he did not believe that his son would be able to comfortably support himself in the future. The following year, his father forced him to transfer to University of Berlin. During this period, Marx wrote many poems and essays concerning life. Marx earned a doctorate in 1841 with a thesis titled The difference between the democritean an epicurean physiology of nature. But he had to submit his paper to the University of Jenna as he was warned that his reputation among the faculty as a radical would lead to a poor comments in Berlin. Towards the end of October 1843, Marx arrived in Paris France. There he began the most important friendship of his life he met Friedrich Engels. Engels had come to Paris to see Marx, who he had met at the office of the Rheinische Zeitung in 1842. He came to show Marx what would turn out to be Engels' greatest work. In his years in Paris Marx wrote many books some entitled, The German Ideology in 1845, The Poverty of Philosophy in 1847, and The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, 1848. During the last decade of his life, Marx's health declined and he was incapable of the effort that had been shown his previous work. He did manage to comment on politics in Germany and Russia. Following the death of his wife Jenny in December 1881, Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in bad health for the last fifteen months of his life. It eventually brought on the Bronchitis and Pleurisy that killed him in on March 14, 1883.

Max Weber was born in Erfurt in Thuringia Germany. He was the oldest of seven children. In 1882 Weber enrolled in the University of Heidelberg as a law student. Weber joined his father's fraternity, and chose as his major study Weber Sr.'s field of law. Along with his law coursework, Weber attended lectures in economics and studied medieval history and theology. In the fall of 1884, Weber returned to his parents home to study at the University of Berlin. For the next eight years of his life Weber stayed at his parents' house, first as a student, later as a junior barrister, and finally as a Dozent at the University of Berlin. In 1886 Weber passed the examination for Referendar comparable to the bar association examination in the British and American legal systems. Throughout the late 1880s, Weber continued his study of history. He earned his law doctorate in 1889 by writing a doctoral dissitation on legal history. Two years later, Weber completed his Habilitationsschrift. Having become a Privatdozent, Weber was now qualified to hold a German professorship. In 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Weber, a feminist and author. The couple moved to Freiburg in 1894, where Weber was the professor of economics at University of Freiburg before accepting the same position at the University of Heidelberg in 1896. Next year, Max Weber Sr. died, two months after a severe argument with his son that was never resolved. After this, Weber became increasingly prone to nervousness and insomnia, making it difficult for him to fulfill his duties as a professor. His condition forced him to reduce his teaching, and leave his last course in the fall of 1899 unfinished. After spending months in a sanatorium during the summer and fall of 1900, Weber and his wife traveled to Italy later that year, and did not return to Heidelberg until April 1902. After Weber's productivity in the early 1890s, he did not publish a single paper between early 1898 and late 1902. But in 1904 Weber began to publish some of his most later papers in this journal, the most famous was a essay entitled The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It became his most famous work, and laid the groundwork for his later research. Weber resumed teaching during this time, first at the University of Vienna then in 1919 at the University of Munich. In Munich, he taught the first German university institute of sociology. Weber left politics in 1919 and never returned because Max Weber died of Pneumonia in Munich on June 14 1920

Emile Durkheim came from a long line of French Jews. At an early age, he decided not to follow in his family's rabbinical footsteps. Durkheim would lead a completely different life. Much of his work, in fact, was dedicated to religious phenomena from social factors. His Jewish background did shape his sociological perspective many of his students and were fellow Jews, and often relatives. As a student Durkheim entered the Йcole Normale Supйrieure in