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Industrial Revolution Begins
Industrial societies begin to take hold, especially in Germany, England, and the American Northeast. Inequality becomes even greater. At this point, organization of capital begins in earnest, with the first tycoons emerging. -
American Revolution
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French Revolution
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Auguste Comte
-Ideas and use of scientific methods greatly advanced sociology
-Created "Sociology" -
Harriet Martineau
-She translated Comte's Positive Philosophy.
-She focused on subjugation. -
Karl Marx
-Started Marxism: belief of the struggle between social classes and eventually society will have no classes.
-Published The Communist Manifesto that paired theoretical research of both Marx and Friedrich Engels. -
Herbert Spencer
-Coined the phrase "Survival of the Fittest"
-Helped develop one of the major theoretical frameworks of sociology, functionalist perspective -
Women's Right Movement
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Enlightment Age
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Emile Durkheim
-One of the Founding Fathers of Sociology
-Distinguished the 4 types of Suicide -
Jane Addams
-Won first Nobel Peace Prize (1931) given to an American sociologists
-Helped the poor and terminated child labor -
US Civil War
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Max Weber
-Emphasized knowledge, reason, and planning
-Key influence on how we went from preindustrial to industrial -
W.E.B. Dubois
-1st Afro-American PhD graduate of Harvard University
-Created "The Veil" and its 3 factors -
Robert Merton
-3rd Founding Father of Sociology
-Created Manifest & Latent Funstions
