Positivism

Reinvented the term Sociology, originally coined by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes

Sociological imagination

Helped establish sociology as formal academic discipline

Believed sociologist could study social facts

Verstehen

Wrote about similarities between society and the human body.

Coined the phrase symbolic interactionism

Founder of symbolic interactionism

Development of self

Looking glass self

Social solidarity

Functionalism

Manifest functions

Latent Functions

Dysfunctions

Believed societies grew and changed as a result of struggles

Anti-positivism

Critical theory

Feminist theory

Also believed in conflict theory

Defined the concept of Value Neutrality

Translated Comte's work from French to English

Focused on micro-level theories and analyzed two-person and three-person groups

Called those that impacted a person's life 'generalized others' and 'significant others'

First coined the term Sociology

Introduced many of the principles that became the foundation for modern Sociology

Believed Sociology was the science of human action not the science of society as a whole

The first western philosopher who attempted a systematic study of society

Their studies showed how segregation was harmful to young black school children.

Described a Sociologist as "Someone concerned with understanding society in a disciplined way."

He defined the function of any recurrent activity as the part it played in social life as a whole, and therefore the contribution it makes to social stability and continuity

He was a student of George Herbert Mead

He used theater as an analogy for social interaction and recognized that people’s interactions showed patterns of cultural “scripts.”