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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution brought rapid urbanization or the movement of people to cities. Changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an ever-increasing demand for workers led masses of people to migrate from farms to cities. Almost overnight, small towns around coal or iron mines mushroomed into cities. -
Harriet Martineau
Birth of Harriet Martineau, the first woman sociologist whose work is significant for sociologists today for her methodological insights. -
Sociology Officially a Science
Considered the year the study of Sociology was established as a science due to the influence of Auguste Comte and his application of the scientific method to the study of society. -
The Father of Sociology
The first sociologist was Auguste Comte, He believed that all societies develop and progress through the following stages: religious, metaphysical, and scientific. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free". -
Charles Horton Cooley
Birth of Charles Horton Cooley, known for his theories of The Looking Glass Self for developing the concepts of primary and secondary relationships -
The Beginning
Sociology first came to the United States from Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Historically it is marked with the formation of the American Social Science Association in 1865. -
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital. -
Herbert Spence
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species -
NAACP officially created
The formation of the NAACP, an organization established to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons. -
Charles Wright
Birth of Charles Wright Mills, who is best known for the application of imaginative thought to asking and answering sociological questions, known as sociological imagination. -
Max Weber
Maximilian Karl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas profoundly influence social theory and research. -
The National Council of Social Studies
The National Council for the Social Studies was founded to advocate and build capacity for high-quality social studies by providing leadership and services for individuals in the field of Sociology and other social sciences. -
The New Deal
Creation of The New Deal, a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted to provide relief, reform, and recovery for those impacted by the depression -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act established, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.