Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Early thinkers in the development of sociology - Coggle Diagram
Early thinkers in the development of sociology
Robert E. Park
best known as the founder of social ecology
Harriet Martineau
Introduced sociology to English speaking scholars through her translation of Comte’s
writing from French to English
Karl Marx
Another person that coauthored the communist manifesto which became the most influential political manuscripts in history
Auguste Comte
Reintroduced the term sociology and named the scientific study of social patterns positivism
Mary Wollstonecraft
wrote about women’s conditions in society
Heather Griffiths
The senior contributing author for the Openstax textbook/ introduction to sociology
Herbert Spencer
the English philosopher Herbert Spencer published The Study of Sociology, the first book with the
term “sociology” in the title
Georg Simmel
Simmel addressed topics such as social conflict, the function of money, individual identity in city life, and the European fear of outsiders
Lester Ward
developed social research methods and argued for the use of the scientific method and quantitative data to show the effectiveness of policies
Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim helped establish sociology as a formal academic discipline by establishing the first European
department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895
George Herbert Mead
philosopher and sociologist whose work focused on the ways in which the min and the self were developed as a result of social processesd
William Summer
Charted the evolution of human customs and mores and developing concepts as diffusion
Mary Wollenscraft
Known for vindication of the rights of women
Max Weber
established a sociology department in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1919
Franklin Giddings
the first full professor of Sociology
W.E.B. Du Bois
pioneered the use of rigorous empirical methodology into sociology
Laud Humphrey
conducted an experiment at a restroom in a park known for same-sex sexual encounters
Jane Addams
Founded Hull House, a center that served needy immigrants through social and educational programs while providing extensive opportunities for sociological research
Charles Herbert Cooley
Posited that individuals compare themselves to others in order to check themselves against social standards and remain part of the group
Ma Tuan-Lin
Was the first to record, in his seminal encyclopedia titled General Study of Literary Remains, the social dynamics underlying and generating historical development
Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun
Set the foundation for both modern sociology and economics