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What you’ll learn to do: understand society and its components, and learn about types of societies that have developed over time

Examining society from a macrosociological point of view can be difficult, but as you will see, major shifts (i.e., political, technological, economic, and/or social) such as the French Revolution for Auguste Comte, or the Industrial Revolution for Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber were epochal events that prompted early sociologists to examine the affected societies. 

In this section, you will review some key concepts from earlier modules and see how the main theoretical paradigms of sociology help us to understand societies.