CH 1 famous Sociologist Chart Completed PDF

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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....