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Adler, Alfred

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Austrian Psychiatrist; inferiority complex

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Allison, Graham

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American political scientist, has worked in decision making and is an important analyst of national security

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Barzun, Jacques

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American historian specializing in expression of culture like music, literature and education

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Behaviorism

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John Watson, BF Skinner, Ivan Pavlov. Behavior can be explained by environmental causes. Focus on classical and operant conditioning.

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Benedict, Ruth

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American Anthropologist; author of Patterns of Culture

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Binet, Alfred & Simon, Theodore

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French psychologists that developed IQ tests

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Boas, Franz

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German-American Anthropologist; Father of modern anthropology as he applied scientific method to his studies

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Cognitive Psychology

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focuses on mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember and learn.
Stages of cognitive development theory by Jean Piaget. Other noteworthy: Albert Bandura, Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker, Daniel Schacter, and Robert Sternberg

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Coleman, James

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American Sociologist. “Social Capital”

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Cultural Materialism

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Attaches special importance to technology and economic factors in the development of society

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Dewey, John

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American educator/philosopher; pragmatism

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DuBois, W.E.B.

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American Sociologist and historian; racism

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Durkheim, Emile

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French Sociologist; modern father of.

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Erikson, Erik

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American Psychologist; Stage theory of development

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Ferguson, Niall

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Scottish historian specializing in financial and economic history

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Friedman, Milton

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American economist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, opposed government regulation

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Functionalism

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Applies the scientific method to the examination of the social world and uses analogies between individual organizations and society.

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Gall, Franz Joseph

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German anatomist/physiologist: study of nervous system and brain, founded pseudoscience and phrenology.

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Galton, Sir Francis

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English Scientist; belief in heredity as predeterminant force, IQ tests

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Geertz, Clifford

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American anthropologist-symbolic anthropology-importance to thoughts

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Gestalt psychology

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Developed in Germany and Austria in the late 19th century. Belief that the conscious experience must be considered as a whole, rather than broken down into elements. The whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts.

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Gibbon, Edward

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English historian wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Goffman, Erving

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American sociologist who studied social interaction

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Greenspan, Alan

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American economist; former chairman of the Federal Reserve

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Harlow, Harry

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American Psychologist-importance of attachment for baby monkeys

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Heterodox economics

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Economic schools of thought that are outside of mainstream economics.

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Horney, Karen

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American Psychiatrist; importance of social and cultural influences on behavior.

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Huizinga, Johan

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Dutch historian, one of the founders of modern cultural history

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Humanistic Psychology

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Developed in the 1950’s in response to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. Focused on individual free-will, personal growth and self-actualization. Maslow and Rogers.

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Hume, David

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Scottish philosopher; use of induction

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Huntington, samuel

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American political scientist, famous for his theory “Clash of Civilizations”

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James, Williams

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American philosopher; pragmatism, functionalism

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Jung, Carl

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Swiss psychiatrist; Self-realization

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Kant, Immanuel

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German Philosopher; proposed categorical imperative

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Keynes, John Maynard

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British developer of of Keynesian economics, founder of modern theoretical macroeconomics

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Kohlberg, Lawerence

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American psychologist; moral stages of development

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Kohler, Wolfgang

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worked with chimps

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Krugman, Paul

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American economist; won the nobel memorial prize in economic sciences: New Trade Theory

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Leibnitz, Gottfried

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German philosopher/mathmatician: use of deduction

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Malinowski, Bronislaw

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Polish anthropologist, pioneer in ethnographic fieldwork

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Malthus, Thomas

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English demographer and political economist; noted potential for rapid population growth to be faster than food supply

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Mansfield, Harvey

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American political scientist; conservative; author of Manliness

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Marx, Karl

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German economist founder of communism

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Mill, John Stuart

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English philosopher; used principle of utility

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Nye, Joseph

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American political scientist; developed the concepts of asymmetrical and complex interdependence with Robert Keohane

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Parsons, Talcott

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American sociologist; developed structural functionalism as a means of analyzing society

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Patterson, Orlando

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American sociologist known for his work on race

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Pavlov, Ivan

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Russian physiologist/psychologist; conditioning of reflexes, worked with dogs

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Pierce, Charles Sanders

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American philosopher; pragmatist

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Piaget, Jean

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Swiss psychologist; stage theory of intellectual development

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psychoanalisis

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founded by sigmund freud. Human mind: Id, Ego, Super-Ego. Unconscious plays an important role in explaining behavior

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Sachs, Jeffrey

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American economist; End of Poverty; special advisor to UN secretary- general Ban Ki-Moon

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Skinner, B.F.

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American psychologist and behaviorist, studied effects of reinforcement on behavior, worked with rats and pigeons

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Smith, Adam

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english, one of the founders of modern economics, The Wealth of Nations

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Strauss, Claude Levi

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French anthropologist; Structural Anthropology, viewed culture as a system of symbolic communication

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Structuralism

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Suggests that meaning is produced through practices and activities. The mind used binary opposites (day and night) that differ from culture to culture.

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Sociology. People interact with each other by interpreting each other’s actions. Their interactions are therefore based on the meaning they attach to the actions.

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Thorndike, Edward

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American. intelligence and IQ tests. Worked with cats

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Titchener, Edward

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American psychologist; Structuralist

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von Ranke, Leopold

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German historian considered one of the founding fathers of modern source-based theory

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Walzer, Michael

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American political philosopher; just and unjust wars, economic justice and ethnicity

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Watson, John

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American psychologist and behaviorist

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Weber, Max

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German sociologist; argued in The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism that Protestantism influenced the development of capatilism

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