Sociologos

History of Classical Sociology

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  • Period: 1905 BCE to 1905 BCE

    International co-operation in sociology

    In 1905 was founded the American Sociological Association, the world's largest association of professional sociologists.
  • Period: 1864 BCE to 1920 BCE

    Max Weber

    -"Weber was a key proponent of methodological antipositivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than purely empiricist) means, based on understanding the purpose and meaning that individuals attach to their own actions".
    -"In 1919, Max Weber founded a department of sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, which had established a new anti-positivist sociology".
  • Period: 1858 BCE to 1957 BCE

    Émile Durkheim

    -"Formal academic sociology began when Durkheim established the European Prime Minister of Sociology, at the University of Bordeaux in 1895".
    -"Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity; An era in which traditional social and religious ties are no longer assumed, and in which new social institutions have come into being"
  • Period: 1818 BCE to 1838 BCE

    Karl Marx

    "Marx's theories about society, economics and politics—collectively understood as Marxism—hold that human societies develop through class struggle; in capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labour for wages".
  • Period: 1798 BCE to 1857 BCE

    Auguste Comten - Positivism

    -Sociology was later defined independently by the French philosopher of science, Auguste Comte in 1838. Comte used this term to describe a new way of looking at society.
    -The word sociology is derived from both Latin and Greek origins. (socius, "companion"; the suffix -logy, "the study of").
    -Positivism: is a philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. *valid knowledge is found only in this derived knowledge.
  • Period: 1760 BCE to 1825 BCE

    Henri de Saint-Simon

    "Sociology emerged from Henri de Saint-Simon with the idea of ​​"social physiology", also called "social physics".