Sociologists & Social Theories

"Father of Sociology;" believed that people could study society using the scientific method

• Auguste Comte

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

Believed in the "survival of the fittest," and that social order will follow after people adapt to their social conditions.

• Herbert Spencer

• Emile Durkheim

• Auguste Comte

• W.E.B. DuBois

Translated Durkheim's work to bring Sociology to English speaking society. Focused mainly on class and gender conflict theories.

• Harriet Martineau

• Karl Marx

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Max Weber

Said that society is driven by the conflict between classes; wrote the Communist Manifesto

• Karl Marx

• Harriett Martineau

• C. Wright Mills

• Max Weber

Said that society is like a living organism that is held together by interrelated parts; structural functionalism perspective

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Karl Marx

• C. Wright Mills

Believed that culture influenced the behavior of people; Symbolic Interactionism perspective

• Max Weber

• Emile Durkheim

• Karl Marx

• W.E.B DuBois

The first sociologist to study the Black community in the United States; studied the effects of racism and talked about race conflict theory

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Karl Marx

• C. Wright Mills

• Max Weber

Invented the phrase "sociological imagination," and said that it is crucial to be able to see connections between individuals and social forces.

• C. Wright Mills

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

According to structural functionalists, society is held together by

• consensus.

• survival.

• violence.

• power.

Which sociological perspective would view the educational system as a power struggle to produce compliant, conforming citizens who do not question people in authority?

• conflict theory

• functionalism

• symbolic interactionism

• progressivism