1. Emile Durkheim believes that society exists externally and we all have the same idea( collective conscience). He distinguishes between two kinds of social unity: Mechanical solidarity, based on a moral consensus among people who have many social similarities and organic solidarity, based on mutual dependence among people of different backgrounds and beliefs. Karl Marx is best known as an economist or historian, he has been called the most famous of sociologists. For Marx, society is …showed first 75 words of 782 total…

…showed last 75 words of 782 total…what we can and cant achieve. Max Weber on the other hand believes in society affecting you internally! , so I believe he would say that it is what you make of it because of drive and determination. Karl Marx would tend to agree with Durkheim somewhat about this, but would say that society has placed these standards and one can choose to meet them, but still be successful, in certain situations, without them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**