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Herbert Spencer

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“Social Darwinism”

Disagreed with Comte

Society will naturally evolve and improve: social research shouldn’t bother bettering society

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Emile Durkheim

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“Social integration/facts”

First sociology professor

Social integration is a key pattern with suicide

Social facts are not random

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Feminism”

First major feminist

Inequality is cultural: marriage is legalized prostitution

“A Vindication of the Rights of Women”

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W.E.B. DuBois

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“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

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August Comte

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“Positivism”

Father of sociology

Applied the scientific method to society

Social research should better society

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Karl Marx

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“Class conflict”

Similar views to Comte

One of the worlds greatest thinkers

All change that occurred would come from class conflict

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Max Weber

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“Protestant Ethic”

Religion caused the change over to capitalism

Compared the rates of religion to capitalism

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Jane Addams

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“1931 Nobel Peace Prize- Hull House”

Dedicated her life to helping the impoverished

Instrumental in workers rights and women’s rights

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C. Wright Mills

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“Sociological imagination”

Knowledge is the crucial element to social change

The power elite were certain individuals who held all the power in the country

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George Herbert Mead

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“Social self theory”

The self emerges from social interactions

Language, play, and games develop the self

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