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