Pre-Foundations of Sociology

--"Father of Sociology"

--coined the term "sociology"

--envisioned a science of society w/ 2 branches: STATIC (doesn't change) and DYNAMIC (changes)

• Auguste Comte

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Emile Durkheim

• Herbert Spencer

Sociologist that believed sociology is a separate science on the grounds that it has both an object (patterned regularities as a group distinct from that of individuals) and a substratum (society as a whole).

• Emile Durkheim

• Herbert Spencer

• Booker T. Washington

• Jane Adams

sociologist that believed society follows a natural evolutionary progression toward something better

• Charles Darwin

• Emile Durkheim

• Herbert Spencer

• Max Weber

sociologist that believed in order to comprehend behavior, one must learn subjective meaning people attach to actions

• Jane Adams

• Auguste Comte

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

sociologist that coined the term "class" in which people are organized in social ranks; key to the development of communist thought

• Karl Marx

• Auguste Comte

• Julian Samora

• W.E.B. DuBois

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• psychology

• sociology

• immigrant

• assimilation

study of the evolution, development, and functioning of human society

• agrarian society

• pastoral society

• sociology

• society

a society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information

• industrial society

• pastoral society

• gathering society

• post industrial society

the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture

• assimilation

• acculturation

• social darwinism

• industrialization

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• heritage

• culture

• sociology

• society