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Auguste Comte
- known as the Father of Sociology
- He coined the term sociology in order to study social behavior
- Published a book called Positive Philosophy
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Harriet Martineau
- Began her writing career in 1825
- Best known from her translation of Comte's Positive Philosophy
- Established herself a pioneering feminist theorist
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Karl Marx
- Took up philosophy, became a journalist
- Identified several social classes; farmers, servants,factory workers, crafts people, owners of small businesses, and moneyed capitalists.
- Predicted that all all industrial societies would contain only two social classes; the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
- He believed that capitalism would eventually self-destruct
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Herbert spencer
- Introduced a theory of social change called Social Darwinism
- Believed that the industrial revolution represented movement from a materialistic society to an industrial one
- He compared society to the human body i order to explain social stability
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Booker T Washington
- Begun his life in slavery
- Founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881
- Believed that african americans should accept segregation in exchange for economic gains
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Emile Durkheim
- Believed that society exists because of a broad consensus , or agreement,among members of society
- Introduced the use of statistical techniques
- Published a book called Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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Jane Addams
- Best known of the early female social reformers
- Co-Founded Hull House in Chicago
- Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, as the first sociologist to receive one
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George herbert Mead
- taught the at the university of Chicago
- According to him, our sense of self develops as we interact with our surroundings Laid the foundation for the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism
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Robert Ezra Park
- Worked as an aide to Booker T. Washington 1905-1944
- He was a journalist
- Believed that sociologists were "super-reporters", who recorded the long term trends in society
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Max Webber
- His most famous book is The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, published in 1904-1905
- Believed that the method of verstehen will help with the understanding of other's personal intentions
- Identified rationalization as an influence in the change from a preindustrial society to an industrial one
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W.E.B Du Bois
- First African American to receive a diploma in high school in Great Barrington
- First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard university
- Published The Philadelphia negro
- Was active in the Pan-African movement
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Julian Samora
- First known Mexican American to earn a doctorate in sociology 1953
- Founded the Mexican American Graduate Studies Program
- Headed the Mexican Border Studies Project