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Sociology Timeline

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    Auguste Comte

    -father of sociology
    -positivism
    -French
    -techniques to prevent personal biases in research
    -wrote Positive Philosophy
    -abandoned attitudes of a Roman Catholic for republicans
    -involved with Clotilde de Vaux while she was married to someone else

    -died of stomach cancer
    -selfcentered and egocentric
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    Harriet Martineau

    -social reformer
    -introduced feminism
    -English
    -worked as a translator and speech writer
    -published over 50 books and 2,000 articles
    -translated Auguste Comte's Positive Philosophy
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    Karl Marx

    -German
    -class conflict in social change
    -attended University of Berlin
    -abandoned romanticism for hegelianism
    -became a journalist
    -published first volume of "Capital" in 1867
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    Herbert Spencer

    -English
    -evolutionary
    -social Darwinism
    -biologist
    -criticized utilitarian positivism
    -contributed to a wide range of subjects
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    Emile Durkheim

    -French
    -one of the founders of modern day sociology
    -broke away from family tradition and studied philosophy
    -founding member of the Human Rights League
    -critical of Karl Marx's work
    -wrote anti-German propaganda pamphlets during WWI
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    Jane Addams

    -American
    -nobel piece prize winner
    -social worker
    -feminist and internationalist
    -studied medicine but became ill and stopped
    -appointed into Chicago's Board of Education in 1905
    -never fully regained health after heart attack in 1926
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    Max Weber

    -German
    -rationalization
    -served in military
    -married in 1893
    -worked as a lawyer's assistance and a university assistance
    -took a break from teaching until after WWI
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    W.E.B. DuBois

    -American
    -pan african movement
    -social structure of african american communities
    -African American writer and activist
    -educated by Harvard University
    -founding officer of the NAACP
    -worked on the Encyclopedia Africana