Founding Theorists
This sociologist is known as the father of sociology and wrote "The Course in Positive Philosophy."
Who is Auguste Comte?
This theory views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
What is functionalism?
This institution is responsible for socializing children and providing formal education.
What is education?
This is the systematic process of gathering data to test hypotheses.
What is the scientific method?
This sociologist wrote "Bowling Alone" and studied the decline of social capital.
Who is Robert Putnam?
He developed the theory of class struggle and wrote "The Communist Manifesto."
This perspective sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change.
What is conflict theory?
This institution provides goods and services and structures employment relationships.
What is the economy?
This research method involves analyzing numerical data and statistics.
What is quantitative research?
This sociologist examined power structures and wrote "The Power Elite."
C. Wright Mills
This sociologist introduced the concept of "social facts" and wrote "Suicide."
Who is Émile Durkheim?
This theory focuses on the meanings people attach to social interactions and symbols.
What is symbolic interactionism?
This social institution is concerned with belief systems and moral guidance.
What is religion?
This type of research relies on interviews, observations, and open-ended data collection.
What is qualitative research?
She is known for her work on gender and pioneered feminist sociology.
Mary Wollstonecraft
He introduced the concept of verstehen and analyzed rationalization in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism."
Who is Max Weber?
This feminist sociologist introduced intersectionality as a way to analyze overlapping social identities.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
This institution establishes laws and governance structures for society.
What is government?
This method involves studying a small group in great detail, often through immersion.
What is ethnography?
He developed the theory of dramaturgy, which analyzes social interaction as a performance.
Erving Goffman
This early American sociologist focused on race and wrote "The Souls of Black Folk."
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This theory examines how individuals shape society and are shaped by society through interactions and roles.
What is social constructionism?
This institution includes marriage, kinship, and caregiving structures.
What is the family?
This occurs when a researcher unintentionally influences the participants or results of a study.
What is researcher bias?
This sociologist introduced the concept of habitus and wrote "Distinction."
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?