1. IN THE BEGINNING-----

2.  TRAINED IN TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND ENGINEERING  LIVED DURING PERIOR WHERE RELIGION EXPLAINED HUMAN BEHAVIOR.  ADVOCATED IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE  CONSIDERED FATHER OF DISCIPLINE  FELT SOCIOLOGY COULD HELP REFORM THE WORLD  THOUGHT THAT SCIENCE COULD BETTER EXPLAIN HUMAN BEHAVIOR THAN RELIGION.

3.  ADVOCATED IDEAS OF SOCIAL DARWINISM  WROTE FIRST TEXT IN SOCIOLOGY  HAD SOME RACIST TENDENCIES  INTOLERANT OF POOR  FELT SOCIETIES OF THE LOWER ORDERS SHOULD AND WOULD DIE OUT BECAUSE OF THEIR INHERENT INFERIORITY

4.  DEALT WITH OF CLASS CONFLICT  FELT CAPITALISTS MISTREATED WITH WORKERS  SPENT TIME IN EXILE  WROTE THE FAMOUS MANIFESTO IN ENGLAND, AS AN EXILE  CENTRAL TO SOCIAL CONFLICT THEORY  PREDICTED A WORKER REVOLUTION AND A NEW SOCIAL ORDER

5.  WELL KNOWN TO SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGON  FIRST MAJOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY  HIS MAJOR CONTRIBUTION WAS TO SHOW HOW SOCIAL FORCES AFFECT HUMAN BEHAVIOR. HIS FAMOUS STUDY OF SUICIDE ILLUSTRATED HIS POINT.  ARGUED THAT HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS NOT INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR, BUT IS THE RESULT OF SOCIAL FORCES.

6.  PROTESTANT ETHIC AND SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM  HELPED ESTABLISH AN UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION AND WHY IT EXISTED  STUDIED BUREAUCRACIES AND UNDERSTOOD THE RIGIDITY ISSUES, HEIRARCHYS, TECHNICAL COMPETENCE AND EFFECIENCIES OF THEM  ESTABLISHED IDEA OF VERSTEHEN—TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANINGS THAT PEOPLE ATTACH TO EVENTS AND ACTIONS  RATIONALIZATION-USE OF ECONOMIC LOGIC IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR.

7.  HARRIET MARTINEAU/ Feminist  JANE ADAMS/Applied Sociology/Social Work

8.  AFRICAN AMERICAN FOCUSED RESEARCHER  INVOLVED IN HELPING ESTABLISH NAACP

9.  Focused on social class. He identified ways the upper classes demonstrated their wealth.  Leisure (the great Gatsby)  Wasting money  Demonstrating their wealth thru conspicuous consumption

10.  FROM THE WORKS OF THESE EARLY CONTRIBUTORS AND OTHERS, THERE HAVE EMERGED THREE MAJOR SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT WHICH DOMINATE MODERN SOCIOLOGY

11.  TALCOTT PARSONS/ ROBERT MERTON  BUILT MODELS ON IDEA THAT ORDERLY SOCIETIES HAVE PARTS WHICH INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER AND PERFORM FUNCTIONS.  MERTON DEVELOPED IDEASOF MANIFEST AND LATENT FUNCTIONS

12. GEORGE HERBERT MEAD—KEY PERSON  BEHAVIOR IS LEARNED  BEHAVIOR IS SOCIAL  MAN CREATES MEANINGS AND RESPONDS TO THE WORLD IN TERMS OF THOSE MEANINGS  BEHAVIOR IS STIMULI—DEFINITION—RESPONSE.  BEHAVIOR IS GOAL DIRECTED  BEHAVIOR HAS MULTIPLE CAUSES  LANGUAGE--SYMBOLS AND REFERENTS  SAPIR WHORF HYPOTHESIS  ERVING GOFFMAN ON DRAMATURGY  REALITY IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT—IT IS LARGELY SOLD TO US BY THE SOCIETY AROUND US.

13.  ADVOCATED BY KARL MARX AND OTHERS  SOCIETY IS SEEN AS BEING IN A STATE OF CONSTANT CONFLICT BECAUSE OF COMPETION AMONG THE PARTS FOR INFLUENCE AND SCARCE RESOURCES