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Early Thinkers - Coggle Diagram
Early Thinkers
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Harriet Martineau
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Work emphasized the important economy, law, trade, health, and population could have on social problems.
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Herbert Spencer
Hoped to understand society better, not improve it.
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Adapted the "suruival of the fittest" argument saying it is natural that some people are rich while others are poor.
Emile Durkhiem
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Anomie: loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
People are so confused and unable to cope with the new social environment that they may resort to death by suicide.
Max webber
Webber argued that to comprehend behavior, we must learn the subjective meanings people attach to their actions.
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Weber taught his students that they should employ verstehen, the German word for "understanding" or "insight", in their intellectual work.
Auguste Comte
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Believed in the need for a theoretical science of society and a systematic investigation of behavior.
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