Founders of Society

Question 1

Auguste Conte

Answer 1

coined the term “sociology” and philosophy of positivism

Question 2

positivism:

Answer 2

social behavior in events can be measured scientifically

Question 3

Herbert Spencer

Answer 3

social + natural life has arisen from progressive evolution; *heavily influenced by Darwin *inequality as a process of natural selection

Question 4

Karl Marx

Answer 4

idea of economic determinism; divided society into capitalists and workers; society is dialectic

Question 5

economic determinism

Answer 5

social interaction is based on/explained by the process of wealth production in society

Question 6

dialectic

Answer 6

a theory for why things change over time as the different classes in society struggle, the society itself changes

Question 7

Emile Durkheim

Answer 7

studied suicide; connected to society rather than personal characteristics

Question 8

Max Weber

Answer 8

idea that in order to understand behavior of people, understand the meaning the individual attributes to that behavior *why people do what they do *sociologists should be value free *did not advocate social progress

Question 9

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 9

designed ways to measure patterns by which people are living, interacting, and engaging w/other groups in URBAN areas + advocated social progress