In society we encounter shared meanings and these shared meanings produce some kind of social order. For social order to be built, we as individuals must be able to communicate with each other. We also need a system in which all of us, as a whole, are willing to cooperate. But where do these shared meanings within societies come from? Marx and Durkheim developed theories about how shared meanings are produced. Marx believes that ideas come after the production of materials. While Durkheim considers it to be society itself as a moral authority where all individuals are willing to share the same idea, Marx begins by saying that our relationship to nature arises from the material world. The relationship of nature to the material world is organized by the capitalist and socialist mode. The individual becomes what he is, as Marx says: “Thus, what individuals are depends on the material conditions of production. » (Marx, 1845-46, p. 46) The individual must first establish who he is within the organization in which he is placed. through what he produces. The material, what he produces, expresses the life he lives. (Marx, 1845-46, p. 46) Our consciousness is above the heavens but does not shape us. Our consciousness is produced through the life we ​​live, the matter that comes from the ground, from the earth. (Marx, 1845-46, p. 47) This theory of Marx's shared meanings is somewhat similar to his theory on the division of labor in society. The dominant ideas born from the capitalist mode are not natural, they are invented by the elite through what is produced. The elite have plenty of time to think, all they have to do is do the mental work. While the worker has no time to think because he is ...... middle of paper ......es. In Hechter, Michael and Christine Horne (Ed.), Theories of social order: A reader (p. 83). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2nd edition. Hobbes, Thomas. (2009). Leviathan (1651). In Hechter, Michael and Christine Horne (Ed.), Theories of social order: A reader (pp. 89-91, 92, 96). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2nd edition. Marx, Karl. (2007). The German ideology (1845). In Craig Calhoun (Ed.), Classical sociological theory (pp. 83–84). Oxford: Blacwell, 2nd edition. Marx, Karl. (2009). The production of consciousness (1845-46). In Hechter, Michael and Christine Horne (Ed.), Theories of social order: A reader (pp. 46-47). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2nd edition. Weber, Max. (2007). Types of legitimate domination (1914). In Craig Calhoun (Ed.), Classical sociological theory (pp. 256–261). Oxford: Blacwell, 2nd edition.