Popular Names Flashcards
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Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Found that some categories of people were more likely than others to take their own lives.
C. Wright Mills (1959)
Periods of change or crisis make everyone feel a little off balance, encouraging us to use the sociological perspective.
Mills illustrated this idea using the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Lenore Weitzman (1985, 1996)
Discovered that women who leave marriages typically experience a dramatic loss of income.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
In their writings we see a shift in focus from a moral obligation to God and king to the pursuit of self-interest.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
-French Social Analyst.
Thought the changes in society brought about by the French Revolution were so great that they amounted to “nothing short of the regeneration of the whole human race.”
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
-French social thinker.
Coined the term sociology in 1838 to describe a new way of looking at society.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
He suggested that society reflected not the perfection of God so much as the failings of a selfish human nature.
Copernicus (1473-1543)
Galileo (1564-1642)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
What Comte called the scientific stage of history began with the work of these three early scientists.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Was troubled by the striking inequalities of industrial society.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
He compared society to the human body.
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003)
Expanded our understanding of the concept of social functions by pointing out that any social structure probably had many functions, some more obvious than others.
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
Regarded as the first woman sociologist. She made her mark in 1853 by translating the writings of Comte from French into English.
Jane Addams (1860-1935)
A sociologist pioneer whose contributions began in 1889 when she helped found Hull House, a Chicago settlement house that provided assistance to immigrant families.
Ida Wells Barnett (1862-1931)
Born to slave parents but rose to become a teacher and then a journalist and newspaper publisher. She campaigned for racial equality and, especially, to put an end to the lynching of black people.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Enrolled at Fisk University & then Harvard, where he earned the first doctorate awarded by that university to a person of color.
Founded the the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory.
Max Weber (1864-1920)
A German sociologist who emphasized the need to understand a setting from the point of view of the people in it.
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
Explored how our personalities develop as a result of social experience.
Erving Goffman (1922-1982)
His work known as dramaturgical analysis describes how we resemble actors on a stage as we play our various roles.
Lillian Rubin (1976)
Found that;
- Higher-Income Women: typically expected the men they married to be sensitive to others, to talk readily, and to share feelings and experiences.
- Low-Income Women: expect men who did not drink too much, were not violent, and held steady jobs.
