Harriet Martineu
What is Martineau known for?
Sociologist, Historian, & Public Educator
What were Durkheim’s great 4 works?
Division of Labor in Society, Rules of Sociological Method, Suicide, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
A Revolutionist
What is double conciseness?
Black and White people can’t live together
Who is considered the “Mother of Sociology”
Harriet Martineau
What theories did she focus on?
Practice of contemporary social life in society
What are Durkeim’s main themes of his work?
Priority of the social over the individual & The idea that society can be studied scientifically.
What did Marx focus on?
Transition of Modernity
What was Du Bois know for saying?
“The Problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line”
Who is considered the “Father of Sociology”
Emile Durkheim
Name of first major work?
Illustrations of Political Economy
Durkheim believed sociology should be oriented towards what?
Empirical Research
What was the first historical act of mankind?
To obtain the material necessities for survival
What did Du Bois book “The Philidelphia Negro do?
Landmark study in sociology and social sciences
Durkheim's two types of Social Solidarity
Mechanical - Organic
How did she explain positivism?
The belief that theory and research should be based upon scientific observation and the belief that there are universal, general laws to explain society.
What does Durkeum believe to be the most important topic to study in Sociology?
Social Facts
What is Comte’s Law of The Stages Theory?
Theological-Metaphysical-Posivistism
What were the major findings of the Philidelphia Negro?
Compaired the White pop. to the Black pop…
What does the Veil Represent from Du Bois?
Separation of racially divided worlds existing together in America
What is the most important law of social life?
Human Happiness
What is the definition of Social Facts?
The social structure an cultural norms and values that are external to, and coercive actors.
How does Marx see the economy?
As a foundation to society, it's the base.
According to Du Bois what does the White world do?
Contiues to remind African Americans that they are different!
What was at the Center of both Cooper & Wells-Barnett theories?
Race