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Auguste Comte
He was a Frenchman, known as the father of Sociology. He wrote the book Positive Philosophy. -
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Harriet Martineau
She was an Englishwoman that lost her sense of taste, smell, and hearing before she reached adulthood.She is famous for translating Comte's book. She called it Society in America -
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Karl Marx
He was a German scholar. He went to study law in Bonn and Berlin.He felt a great concern for the poverty and inequality suffered by the working class around him.He identified many social classes in the nineteenth-century. -
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Herbert Spencer
He was born to an English schoolteacher. To explain social stability he compared society to the human body. He also introduced the theory of social change called Social Darwinism. -
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Booker T. Washington
Washington was also African American and began his life in slavery.He founded the Tuskegee Institute. he worked under the assumption that African Americans should accept segregationa and return for promises of economic gains. -
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Emile Durkheim
His father was a French rabbi.According to him, society exists because of a broad agreement among members of society. He also showed how human social behavior must be explained by social factors rather than just phsycoligical ones. -
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Jane Addams
She was the best known of the early female social reformers of the U.S. When she was a child she saw many examples of government corruption. So she set out to seek social justice.She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.- the first sociologist to receive this award. -
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George Herbert Mead
He explored how our sense of self-develops.His work laid the foundation for the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism. -
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Max Weber
His father was a German lawyer and politician. His mother was a devout Calvinist who rejected her husband's lifestyle.He was affected by the conflicting values in his family. His most famous book written was The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. -
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Robert Ezra Park
He specialized in race relations and human ecology. He wanted to know how groups are organized in different ways to enable them to compete and cooperate. He never abandoned his interest in social reform -
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W.E.B Du Bois
He was an African American educator and social activist.He was the first African American student to receive a doctorate at Harvard. He published his findings on the "Negro Problem" in his book The Philadelphia Negro. -
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Julian Samora
He became known as the first Mexican- American to earn a doctorate in sociology.While he was at Notre Dame University he founded the Mexican American Graduate Studies Program and headed the Mexican Border Studies Project.