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This sociologist was born in 1818 and wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx?
This theory explains how capitalism leads to class conflict between bourgeoisie and proletariat.
What is Conflict Theory?
Who was Harriet Martineau?
This sociologist studied at the University of Berlin and influenced modern sociology with interpretive methods.
Who was Max Weber?
This sociologist is known for studying race and inequality in America and writing The Souls of Black Folk.
Who was Du Bois?
Born in 1858, this sociologist is known for founding French sociology.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
This theory explains deviance as a result of societal pressure to achieve goals.
What is Strain Theory?
This sociologist studied society in France and helped establish sociology as a discipline.
Who was Emile Durkheim?
Born in Waco, Texas, he studied at Texas A & M University and then transferred to University of Texas in Austin. His undergrad was in sociology while his master's degree was in philosophy.
Who was C. Wright-Mills?
This sociologist is known for studying suicide as a social fact.
Who was Durkheim?
This American sociologist, born in 1910, developed the idea of “strain theory.”
Who is Robert K. Merton?
This theory explains how individuals create meaning through social interaction.
What is Symbolic interactionism?
This sociologist focused on race relations in the United States, especially in the South.
Who was Du Bois?
This sociologist studied law and history, influencing her feminist work alongside her husband.
Who was Marianne Weber?
She is remembered as the mother of Sociology.
Who was Harriet Martineau?
Born in 1864, this sociologist developed the concept of "verstehen."
Who is Max Weber?
This theory was a feminist theoretical framework arguing that knowledge is socially situated, meaning an individual’s perspectives, experiences, and social location (such as gender, race, or class) influence their understanding of the world.
What is Standpoint Theory?
This sociologist worked primarily in the United States and wrote about elites and power structures.
Who was C. Wright-Mills?
This Canadian sociologist studied at UC Berkeley and developed institutional ethnography.
Who was Dorothy Smith?
She was inspired and influenced by her mother-in-law.
Who was Marianne Weber?
This sociologist, born in 1802, was one of the first to study society from a feminist perspective.
Who is Harriet Martineau?
One of their theories focused on the development of self, the "I" and the "Me."
Who was George Herbert Mead?
Born in Massachusetts, USA to a pastoral family. He studied philosophy and sociology at Harvard University in 1887.
Who was George Herbert Mead?
Educated at Temple University and Harvard. He later became a professor at Harvard, Tulane, and Columbia.
Who was Robert K. Merton?
He formalized the discipline and made sociology a legitimate university field.
Who was Emile Durkheim?