People Flashcards
Herbert Spencer
“Social Darwinism”
Disagreed with Comte
Society will naturally evolve and improve: social research shouldn’t bother bettering society
Emile Durkheim
“Social integration/facts”
First sociology professor
Social integration is a key pattern with suicide
Social facts are not random
Mary Wollstonecraft
“Feminism”
First major feminist
Inequality is cultural: marriage is legalized prostitution
“A Vindication of the Rights of Women”
W.E.B. DuBois
“Race relations”
First African American to get a Doctorate at Harvard
Worked on race relations through education
Co-founded NAACP
Moved to Ghana to advise their new government
August Comte
“Positivism”
Father of sociology
Applied the scientific method to society
Social research should better society
Karl Marx
“Class conflict”
Similar views to Comte
One of the worlds greatest thinkers
All change that occurred would come from class conflict
Max Weber
“Protestant Ethic”
Religion caused the change over to capitalism
Compared the rates of religion to capitalism
Jane Addams
“1931 Nobel Peace Prize- Hull House”
Dedicated her life to helping the impoverished
Instrumental in workers rights and women’s rights
C. Wright Mills
“Sociological imagination”
Knowledge is the crucial element to social change
The power elite were certain individuals who held all the power in the country
George Herbert Mead
“Social self theory”
The self emerges from social interactions
Language, play, and games develop the self
