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Auguste Comte
-Coins the term 'sociology'
-Published theories in a book called "Positive Philosophy"
-His belief was adopted by European scholars
-Believed social behavior had to be studied scientificaly -
Harriet Martineau
-Popular writer who sold out Charles Dickens
-Translated "Positive Philosophy" -
Karl Marx
-Studied law in Bonn and Berlin
-Identified several social classes
-Predicted that at some point there would contain only bourgeoisie and proletariat
-Class conflict was key to unfolding history
-Explain the workings of capitalism to hasten its fall through revolution -
Herbert Spencer
-Compared society to the human body
-Theory "Social Darwinism"
-Believed that Industrial Revolution represented movement of a militaristic society to an industrial one
-Theory was inspired because of the theory of evolution -
Booker T. Washington
-was in slavery
-educator at Tuskegee Institute
-believed that African Americans should accept segregation in return for economic gains -
Emile Durkheim
-Society exists because of an agreement among society
-Introduced the use of statistical techniques in his research on suicide
-Showed human social behavior is explained by social factors
-Wrote "Suicide: A Study in Sociology" -
Jane Addams
-1931 awarded Nobel Peace Prize
-first sociologist to receive Nobel Peace Prize
-focused on problems caused by the abusive power on society
-believed social action will be used to improve society -
George Herbert Mead
-taught at University of Chicago
-developed how our sense of self develp[ed
-said it developed as we interact with the world
-his work laid the foundation for other perspectives of interactionism -
Max Weber
-Wrote on topics like power religions of the world, kaw, economics... etc
-Wrote "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
-Humans act on the basis of their own understanding of a situation -
Robert Ezra Park
-was an aide to Booker T. Washington
interested in the social function of newspapers
-believed sociologists were types of "superreporter" who documented long term trends in sociology -
W.E.B. Du Bois
-attacked the problem of racism
-Published "The Philadelphia Negro"
-first African American to recieve a diploma from a hgih school in Massachusetts -
Julian Samora
-first known Mexican American to earn a doctorate in sociology
-focused on civil rights and discrimination, poverty, public health, and movement of people along the Mexican American border
-founded the Mexican Graduate Studies Program
-headed the Mexican Border Studies Project