He is more in agreement with Weber. Weber analyses religious determinants for capitalism (ibid).
Weber disagrees considerably with Marx by claiming that ideology was a legitimate determinant for social organization. On the other hand, Marx felt that ideology was almost exclusively the result of economic determinants where Weber considered such a view simplistically naive. Rather, he analyzed the relationship between economy and society in terms of religious belief. He therefore opened the way for analyses of other ideological phenomena such as law, politics, and culture. Although he did not reduce religion to an economic determinant, he did consider it to be a fundamental social phenomenon. From this, he traced its roots to the very beginnings of society in the forms of animism, naturalism and totemism. In totemism, he finds the ultimate origin of social structure. Weber appears to follow his lead by a further analysis of the Protestant religion and its relationship to capitalism. As he makes very clear, spiritual ideology, asceticism...
A factor upon which they agree is that the economy is a fundamental part of any society. The dynamic of this relationship is disputed by all three. Each of them developed their different viewpoints based on their social theories. Marx viewed the economy as the very base of the social structure. Durkheim saw the economy as one of a number of social institutions making up the society. In part, Weber viewed the economy at least in part as an extension of societal religious beliefs, primarily extrapolating upon the impact of the Protestant religion upon modern capitalism.
Works Cited
Morrison, Kenneth L. Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought . 2nd ed. London, Great Britain: Sage Publications, Ltd., 2006. Print.
