sociology figures

Question 1

jacques barzun

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american historian who studied culture

Question 2

james coleman

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american sociologist who studied culture

Question 3

auguste comte

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a founder of sociology and positivism

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w.e.b. dubois

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American sociologist who cofounded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Question 5

emile durkheim

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french father of sociology

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talcott parsons

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american sociologist who developed action theory

Question 7

georg simmel

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german sociologist and founder of antipositivism

Question 8

herbert spencer

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English sociologist and biologist who coined the term “survival of the fittest” and applied it to humans in a sociology context

Question 9

ferdinand tonnies

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german sociologist who defined gemeinschaft and gesellschaft

Question 10

thorstein veblen`

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American sociologist who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class — asserts that the division of labor from the feudal system continued into the modern era

Question 11

max weber

Answer 11

german sociologist who promoted antipositivism