PRI. Sociology Ch.1-3 (FOUNDING FATHERS)

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Herbert Spencer English Man

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• 2n founder of sociology

* disagreed with Comte

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Auguste Comte (1798-1857) A French Man

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• First person to use the term sociology

* Thought people should apply the scientific method to the social world

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Auguste Comte (1798-1857)

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Born 9 years after the French Revolution

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Herbert Spencer English Man

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• Thought that helping the poor was wrong, that this merely helped the “less fit” survive.
• Survival of the fittest

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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English Man

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•Charles Darwin is credited for evolution

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Karl Marx German

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One of the most famous founding fathers used class conflict

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Herbert Spencer English Man

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Compared societies to living organisms

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Karl Marx German

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Believed that the roots of human misery lay in class conflict, the exploitation of workers by those who own the means of production

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Karl Marx German

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At a young age he was writting about the government. Was a radical person.

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Karl Marx German

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Was exiled in Belgium.

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Emile Durkheim French

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• goal was for sociology to be recognized as a separate academic discipline in Universities
• wrote 4 main books

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Emile Durkheim French

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His book on suicide said that each country has a different suicide rate.

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Emile Durkheim

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Conducted death (suicide) rates in Europe

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Max Weber (1864-1920)

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Disagreed with Marc’s claim that economics is the central force in social change; he said it belongs to religion

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Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldoun

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• ambassador of his country
• started the Kuran; the Muslim bible,
• wrote about social forces

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Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldoun

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• Said human behavior is not random; we have laws

- emphasized strive and conflict

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W.E.B Dubois

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PHD from Harvard; author of 20 books

Wrote more than 100 articles on race and race relations

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W.E.B Dubois

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Wrote the book Philadelphia Negro in 1899
Advocated the study of race relations
Insisted that educated black leaders should take a stand

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Ida B. Wells- Barnett

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Born into slavery, Holly springs, Mississippi

Became an international writer, lecturer for rights

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Ida B. Wells- Barnett

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Did most of his writings in Memphis

Wrote books on lynching & women’s suffrage

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Ida B. Wells- Barnett

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Founder of national association for colored people
Had a feminism assumption that women in society are being a pressed,devalued, marginalized, and that peripheral should do something about it

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Auguste Comte

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He used positivism

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Durkheim

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Said society has a built-in tendency toward harmony and self-regulation analogous to living organisms

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Durkheim

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Also said society is a system of interrelated parts; sociological outlook that analyses societal items in terms of their consequences & functions for society or parts of society