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Early Thinkers in the development of sociology - Coggle Diagram
Early Thinkers in the development of sociology
Herbert Spencer
First book with the term "sociology"
Rejected Comte's views and Marx's views
Harriet Martineau
First to translate Comte's writings to english.
She pointed out faults in a free enterprise system
First woman sociologist
Like many other women she was discounted by male peers in her field
Auguste Comte
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Named the scientific study of social patterns
Positivism
Believed social sciences could be studied using the same same methods as natural sciences
Karl Marx
Rejected Positivism.
He believed that communism was a better system than capitalism.
Co-Authored communist manifesto
He believed that capitalism would collapse.
Max Weber
Believed it was almost impossible to use scientific methods to predict group behavior. He believed that cultural influence was a factor.
Introduced verstehen where observers try to get an inside view of a situation
proposed Antipositivism with other sociologists
Emile Durkheim
Established first European sociology department
Believed you could study social facts and use them to determine whether a society is "Healthy" or "Pathological"