Definitions
a condition of being unequal, or of being given an unequal share of treatment, status, or opportunity.
•Social Inequality
•Society follows laws just like the natural world; it evolves in stages—Theological, Metaphysical, and Scientific.
Auguste Comte
The Father of Sociology
Auguste Comte
Pioneered early critical race theory and founded the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
the distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together
•Social Structure
Society exists where interactions exist—not as a separate entity.
Georg Simmel
Functionalism
Durkheim
Advocated for the study of all aspects of society, including women, children, and marginalized groups.
Harriet Martineau
an ideal of uniformity in treatment or status by those in a position to affect either. Acknowledgment of the right to equality often must be coerced from the advantaged by the disadvantaged.
•Equality
Societies evolve from simple to complex forms, much like organisms.
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spancer
•His ideas became the foundation for critical sociology and later influenced communism and Marxist theory.
Karl Marx
the alteration of mechanisms within the social structure, characterized by changes in cultural symbols, rules of behaviour, social organizations, or value systems.
•Social Change
Sociology should understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions
Max Weber
Interpretive Sociology
Max Weber
•First to apply scientific methods to study social phenomena systematically.
Durkeim
based on or characterized by the methods and principles of science
Scientific
•Believed that economic conflict drives historical change.
Karl Marx
Conflict Theory
Karl Marx
How many Founding Father are there
8