Social Thinkers

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    Auguste Comte

    positive Philosophy
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    This was the First known date of the begining of the Industrial Revolution
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    Harriet Martineau

    Society in america
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    Karl Marx

    communist manifesto
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    Herbert Spencer

    Social Statics
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    Emile Durkheim

    suicide
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    Jane Addams

    Awarded nobel peace prize
  • Empancipation Proclamation

    Empancipation Proclamation
    September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863
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    Max Weber

    the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
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    W.E.B. DuBois

    The philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
  • Telephone invented

    Telephone invented
    The telephone was invented in March of 1876. The famous incident in which Alexander Graham Bell spilled acid on himself and called out to his assistant, Watson, not realizing his voice was being carried over the telephone
  • Haymarket Square Riot

    Haymarket Square Riot
    Haymarket riot was a demonstration and unrest that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, and began as a rally in support of striking workers.
  • U. of Chicago Soc. Dept.

    U. of Chicago Soc. Dept.
    The University of Chicago Department of Sociology is among the great sociology departments of the world. Founded in 1892 as the first sociology department in the United States
  • Model T Ford

    Model T Ford
    The first production Model T Ford was assembled at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit on October 1, 1908
  • Titanc sinks

    Titanc sinks
    At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada
  • World War 1

    World War 1
    June 28 1914 the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand starts the war
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment
    The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
  • Mikey Mouse is Born

    Mikey Mouse is Born
    Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney. The Walt Disney Company celebrates his birth as November 18, 1928 upon the release of Steamboat Willie
  • World War 2

    World War  2
    1 September 1939 marked the beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later