Classical Sociological Theory

Running Head : SOCIO-POLITICAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGICAL DOCTRINES IN NINETHEENTH CENTURY

Socio-political Factors Involved in the Development of Sociological Doctrines In Nineteenth Century

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Socio-political Factors Involved in the Development of Sociological Doctrines In Nineteenth Century

Introduction

Nineteenth Century reflects one of the most remarkable era of the human history . This Century has revealed many scientific , social economical revolutions . The human history was moving forward to a new era . All these advances the core of which was the Industrial

Revolution in the West and Colonization of the Asian made profound impacts on the human society of that time . The time was ripe for the thinkers and philosophers to study the human society in a new , advanced and more scientific manner . Societies were disembarking to the shore of new ideologies after sustaining vicious tempests throughout their turbulent past . These changes and advances induced certain thinkers to produce new ideas and coin new terms about human social relations , Comte took his chance to become the pioneer and coined the first of the modern sociological theories which were later taken and developed by Marx Simon and others . In this we will discus the social and political factors which contributed in the emergence , development and evolution of sociological theories . In this argument we will discuss Comte , Marx and Simon with respect to their social and political environment i .e . its influences on these doctrines

Characteristics of Nineteenth Century

The Nineteenth Century is characterized by many remarkable changes in the human history . The main features are The Industrialization in Europe , emerging of the British Empire , American Civil War , and Rise of Socialism . Socialism emerges as a new ideology which was later going to be a prominent factor in changing the global , political and economical trends . The pioneers of Social Theories in the referred century are Saint Simon , Auguste Comte Karl Marx

What Make Saint Simon to become a Socialist

Claude Henri de Rouvroy Saint-Simon was born in Paris in 1760 i .e . the Late Eighteenth Century . He was born in the days of Crumbling French Monarchy and belonged to the family of duc de Saint-Simon which was one of the prominent families of the Feudal France . The family background seems to have no or very little influence on him as we find him battling with The British in The American Continent with the revolutionists . This early youth adventure depicts much of the nature of mind of the young Simon which is deemed to be very ambitious and revolting . That 's why when he returned back in to France after the American War of Independence he favored the French Revolution vigorously . From his early youth he has the ambition to prove himself and to do great things . Thus after the French Revolution he also make his mind to prove himself as a new reformer and gave political , economical and social concepts regarding the reconstruction of the French political , social and economical system . Like all other theologians of...