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FAMOUS SOCIOLOGISTS
Sociologist
Area of Concern
Key Beliefs
Functionalists
Auguste Comte
Social Laws
Social Statics
Social Dynamics
Herbert Spencer
Natural Selection for societies
Social Darwinism
Emile Durkheim
The role of solidarity in society Mechanical solidarity
Organic solidarity
Talcott Parsons
Focused on how all aspects of
society connect
Robert Merton
Middle-range theory of
Manifest functions
socioloogy
Latent functions
Focus on the individual parts of
society
Bicycle wheel
Change comes from a great
force
Karl Marx
Conflict Theorists
Social class struggles
Harriet Martineau
Gender inequality
Equality of women in society
W.E.B. du Bois
Racial inquality
Slavery & capitalism cause
inequality
Jane Addams
Poverty
John Bellamy Foster
Negative effects of capitalism
Hull House
Sociologists need to have a
genuine perspective to work in
a field
There is no incentive for a
capitalist nation to change or
help if it does not benefit them
False consciousness
Class consciousness
Socialism
George Herbert Mead
Symbolic Interactionists
Symbols a society uses tells a
Important how we interpret
lot about that people
symbols through that groups’
lens.
Herbert Blumer
Meaning of symbols we choose It is important how symbols are
interpreted and handed down to
other generations
Erving Goffman
The interaction around symbols Dramaturgy
and people
Howard Becker
Labels
All Three In One
Max Weber
Labels can dictact one’s future
depending on the definition
given to that label
economic, political and
We need bureaucracies to help
cultural conflicts that are
society operate;
related to their relative social Sociology should be value free
position.