Early Sociologists

Famous feminist theorist who saw a connection between the oppression of women and slaves

• Herbert Spencer

• Harriet Martineau

• Emile Durkheim

• W.E.B. DuBois

Founded the Hull House in Chicago

• Herbert Spencer

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Jane Addams

• Karl Marx

Helped to establish conflict theory, the idea that there are haves and have not's in society and it creates conflict; considered founder of communism

• Karl Marx

• Auguste Comte

• Max Weber

• Jane Addams

Experienced and studied racial discrimination and segregation; founder of NAACP

• Jane Addams

• Emilie Durkheim

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Auguste Comte

Felt social change and unrest was good/natural;
coined the term survival of the fittest, known for work with social Darwinism

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Karl Marx

• Herbert Spencer

• Max Weber

Proposed going beyond just studying observable phenomena, but looking into the thoughts and feelings of others; used the principle of Verstehen.

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Auguste Comte

• Jane Addams

Considered the founder of sociology as a distinct subject and was known for his contributions to the subjects of social order and social change.

• Harriet Martineau

• Auguste Comte

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

Said sociologists should only study observable phenomena; stated that beliefs and values of religion are the glue that hold society together.

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Karl Marx

• W.E.B. DuBois