Idealism and Materialism as General Approaches to Understanding Society
Both Karl Marx and Max Weber had very different ways of looking at the
societies economic system. Marx's strong beliefs in what would make society thrive were
in the materialism approach and Weber's was in the idealism approach.
Karl Marx believed that the majority of societies problems came from the industrial
capitalist system; this is the system that was making the rich, richer and the poor, poorer,
with the larger portion of society being what Marx called the proletariat (the poor
laborers)(Macionis/Gerber,…
