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- Jane Addams
- founded Hull House - settlement house - precursored community centers & rehabilitation homes. 1931 Nobel
- Elijah Anderson
- ethnography; studied drug abuse, job loss, service decrease, & exodus of middle-income pop in 2 Phila neighborhoods
- Robert Bellah
- soc/religion: individualism & commitment --> new constructivism - meaning constructed by resisting/undermining social controls
- Monica Boyd
- GENDER INEQUALITY, changing family forms, international migration, & ETHNIC STRATIFICATION
- Robert J. Brym
- political sociology, race/ethnic relations, soc/culture; Internet dating; Russian civil service recruitment & mobility; 2000 World Values Survey
- S.D. Clark
- Canadian social development: process of disorganization & reorganization on economic frontiers; emphasis: society re-establishes equilibrium post-economic change
- August Comte
- founded modern sociology; social order E scientific method; positivism; true knowledge E observing world; SOCIAL DYNAMICS, SOCIAL STATICS; social order; SOCIOLOGY
- Charles Horton Cooley
- "LOOKING-GLASS SELF" - sense of self derived E perceptions of others
- Marja Dabrowska
- Poland: social change - social & economic reform; 1950s: critical of Communism
- W.E.B. DuBois
- race in US; NAACP; social inequality & discrimination - b/w blacks & whites & b/w successful & less successful blacks
- Emile Durkheim
- France: 1st professor of sociology; human behavior E "social facts"/social context - define constraints & oppotunities; Europe: Suicide
- Magrit Eichler
- feminist methodology; Canada: family policy
- Bonnie Fox
- gender inequality: women's position in paid labor force & unpaid work in home
- Sigmund Freud
- "cathartic method" - recall of forgotten events; free association - make conscious of elements of unconscious; unconscious depends heavily on infantile sexuality & Oedipus complex; self emerges E early social interaction & early childhood experience = personality development impact
- Rosemary Gartner
- homicide, crime deterrence, violence against women, & historical & cross-national variation in criminal violence
- Jane Gaskell
- school choice policies; gender equity: schools
- Carol Gilligan
- moral development: cultural standards parents & teachers pass on to children (moral development socially differentiated & does not follow universal rules)
- Erving Goffman
- "dramaturgical" approach to symbolic interactionism: way ppl manage identities to create desired impressions on "audience"
- Neil Guppy
- social inEquality, sustainability & Environ, & Education
- Jack Haas
- sociology of addiction and recovery
- Harry & Margaret Harlow
- monkeys: w/ wire mesh mother = unable to interact w/ other monkeys normally; raised w/ terry cloth mother = less emotional distress --> emotional development requires affectionate cradling
- Graham Knight
- modern social thry, politcal sociology & sociology of MASS MEDIA
- Harvey Krahn
- social stratification, sociology of work & education, social science research methods, & public policy
- Gordon Laxer
- principal invesitgator of a 5-year research project on Neo-liberal Globalism & its Challengers: Sustainability in the Semi-periphery
- Rhonda Lenton
- writer in areas of gender, family violence, & health,
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- English economist, sociologist, & founder of modern study of pop; checks & balances: limit human pop, incl disease, war, famine, & "moral restraint"; poverty, violence, & discord = natural components of society: pop size & levels of subsistence
- Karl Mannheim
- social values; ideas s/b analyzed w/in social context; sociology of knowledge
- Harriet Martineau
- 1st female sociologist & writer; trans Comte; wrote 1 of 1st books on sociological research methods; slavery, factory laws, & gender inequality; voting rights & higher education for women, gender equality in family --> 1 of 1st feminists
- Karl Marx
- conflict b/w society's main social classes = major sociohistorical changes ; capitalism --> misery & collective strength among workers --> take state power & create classless society - production based on rather than profit; Communist Manifesto: thry of class division, proletariat, bourgeoisie
- George Herbert Mead
- development of mind & relation to self; sense of selves derived E interaction w/in social environ & language --> SOCIAL BEHAVIORISM
- Robert King Merton
- functionalism made flexible; social structures not always functional, & m/b dysfunctional; sociology of science: On the Shoulder of Giants - creativity, tradition, plagiarism, transmission of knowledge, concept of progress; SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY, ROLE MODEL; created precursor of the focus group
- C. Wright Mills
- sociological imagination = ppl see how actions & potential affected by social & historical context; POWER ELITE; society t/b democratic, power m/b distributed among citizens
- Joanne Naiman
- social justice & social change issues; publicly-funded education
- Adie Nelson
- criminology, victimology, gender, & sexuality; sociology of law & criminolgy; monograph on commercialization of crime
- Talcott Parsons
- constructed system of classifying various characteristics of societies --> STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL THEORY
- Lillian Rubin
- participant-observation; race, ethnicity, & gender divide working class
- Vic Satzewich
- researcher in areas of racism, migration, First Nations studies, & Ukrainian diaspora
- William Shaffir
- identity maintenance & socialization; Hasidim: boundary maintenance & social organization; professional socialization of medical students; becoming religious & falling E faith; field research methods
- Georg Simmel
- German philosopher & sociologist; German sociology as independent discipline
- Dorothy E. Smith
- feminist sociology pioneer
- Herbert Spencer
- philosopher, evolutionary biologist, & sociologist; analyzed how individuals become differentiated E groups & gain increasing freedom
- William Graham Sumner
- American sociologist & economist: customs, folkways, & mores; ETHNOCENTRISM - tendency to regard one's own culture & group as standard, & superior to others
- Charles Tilly
- large-scale social change & relation to contentious politics in Western Europe; state formation & social movements
- Ferdinand Tonnies
- historical society: modern society; self-interest as primary social force; "loss of community" --> GEMEINSCHAFT & GESELLSCHAFT - characterize degree of social solidarity & social control
- Lester Frank Ward
- paleontologist & 1 of 1st American sociologists; TELESIS: planned progress of education & intellect direct social evolution
- Max Weber
- Germany's greatest sociologist; "debate w/ Marx's ghost"; economic circumstances alone do not explain capitalism rise; religious developments = + capitalist development consequences; capitalism not give way to socialism, but growth of bureaucracy & overall "rationalization" of life
- Sandy Welsh
- work, organizations, & gender; women's experience w/ filing sexual harassment complaints