Famous SOciologists

Jane Addams

Coined the term sociology but never conducted a sociological research

Herbert Blumer

Translated Comte’s works but no recognition because she was a woman. Published first written work on the method of ethnography.

Auguste Comte

Charter member of the American Sociological Society. Recognized for early theories of social change which influenced later feminist theorists and activists.

Harriet Martineau

Applied an evolutionary perspective to explain how social change occurs in societies. Associated with concept of social Darwinism, the idea that species (including humans) best adapted to their environment survive and prosper, whereas those poorly adapted die out.

Herbert Spencer

Coined the term symbolic interactionism as he continued the work of George Herbert Mead.

Karl Marx

Class conflict
Alienation
THe commuist Manifesto

Max Weber

The Protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism

value-free sociology

Bureaucracy.

Emile Durkheim

Suicide

Social Facts

Anomie

W.E.B. DU BOIS

Double Consciousness
The Philadelphia Negro: A social study

Found the 2nd sociology department in the U.S.

Robert Merton

Manifest and latent function

self fulfilling prophecy

Functionalism

Eriving Goffman

Dramaturgical Analysis

Front/Back Stage behavior

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